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Originally Posted by wg_flamip
Personally, I'm watching to see what happens to the long-neglected former city of York as some of the new transit projects come on-line. There's a lot of potential out in Weston, for example, especially as creative types are priced out of the old city. Unfortunately, they tend to elect some of the worst politicians in the city and the legacy of being the poorest municipality in the province (IIRC) is proving difficult to shake. That said, if there's anywhere in Toronto where gentrification has the potential to cause serious American-style tensions, it's out in that little corner of the city.
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I've always been fond of York, especially the Vaughan Road area and then the tightly packed, bunaglow-strewn hills along Eglinton. Weston's cool too. I like the haphazard street grid, the mix of 70s tower slabs and prewar urbanity, the way it follows the Humber, and that it's one of the few remaining rough, working class urban neighbourhoods with no signs of changing. Eglinton West would probably be the smartest place to invest in real estate in Toronto right now though...once the subway goes in, expect to happen to that area what's been happening along Bathurst and in East York and central North York for the past decade plus (i.e. tear downs of older bungalows on million dollar lots).
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