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Originally Posted by ue
Yeah, but a SFH in the suburbs is not exactly what ssiguy and I are talking about here. Montreal may not be on the level of Toronto and Vancouver, but nor is Winnipeg or Calgary, both of which have their fair share of housing issues. Just because the housing crisis isn't taken to its most extreme doesn't mean that Montreal is becoming more unaffordable. I know many Montrealers who've complained about certain areas no longer being affordable and encroaching gentrification, particularly in the Sud-Ouest. The Lachine Canal has been called "green gentrification" and of course le Plateau / Mile End are not cheap anymore. Meanwhile the condo phenomenon, while late, is taking the city by storm, slowly turning the skyline into a Vancouverist manifestation.
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You are absolutely correct.
I live in Villeray and we've seen many of our lifelong, generational residents booted out in favour of moneyed refugees from France, Belgium, Vancouver, Toronto - you name it. A lot of weird accents replacing the traditional working class Francos, Italian and Portuguese who grew up here. Much more English being spoken. Many factory loft conversions and 3-unit triplexes turned into 2 unit or even SFHs.
Now, not all of this is bad, if anything the mix is becoming 'different' rather than problematic. A natural evolution.
What worries me is that the mix of economic classes - the very thing that makes neighbourhoods interesting - is being supplanted by a homogenous economic class - albeit a very diverse mix within that class - and that has always been proven to be unhealthy.
And believe me: nobody here gives a flying f*ck about Laval or Longueuil!
And nobody, I repeat: NOBODY that I've ever spoken to in my entire lifetime - anywhere- has ever expressed even so much as a half a f*ck about the skyline lol
Skyline weirdos are so hilarious. They are to urbanist sites what the skat fetish people are to porn sites!