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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
It's definitely the color variation that is helping St. John's. The monotone stucco suburbia of the prairies is definitely soulsucking. The endless 'double-wide' sprawl of the outer areas of St John's is bad, but at least there is color.
Then there's all that stuff on the hills of duplexes and demise with no trees up in Mt. Pearl. I'll take the prairies over that. I don't know who wants to live there but it's not me. |
Yeah, agreed. At that point, even I would prefer trees over the "urban" form.
For those who've never been here... there is a ring of duplex suburbia around the entire cities of St. John's and Mount Pearl. It's basically our welfare equivalent of street car suburbia - NOT the core, in any sense - but close to it.
It's just awful.
And to give you a hint of how much life it strips away... signs aren't allowed outside, but businesses are, so I guarantee you in that view there is, at minimum, a dog grooming place, a nail salon, and massage parlour, and a graphic design studio. Because I or a friend have to be each of those in that neighbourhood, which is only two streets. So if it wasn't this one, it was the one behind but still technically "in view".
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Pretty much everything built in the last 100 years or so seems to be stucco. Including street fronting 1920s rowhouse areas in San Francisco like this: 
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