The Ugly Canada Thread

[O-tacular]

Have you seen most seniors condos?! That one's actually alright. For starters it doesn't have tacky fake stone, beige stucco or a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 clock tower.

[O-tacular]

I managed to snag some pics of this creepy 🞵🞵🞵 tree in front of a house just outside the city.



One for every victim...

[srperrycgy]

Good grief, where the hell is that?

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by srperrycgy

Good grief, where the hell is that?

Glenmore just before the Shepard power Plant and 100 St. Here's a close up:

[srperrycgy]

OK. Thanks....I think.

[Metro-One]

Love it! So 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 weird it goes back around to being interesting.

[Urban recluse]

Awesome for target practice.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by GeneralLeeTPHLS

This retirement tower, likely bustling with NIMBY's, was built about 3 years ago, and is an eyesore. It's located in a rather grotesque area of Mississauga, full of rich schmucks and townhousing for a nearby University:

[IMG]Stank by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Ass by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr[/IMG]

I keep looking at those photos and puzzling over what's "ugly" in the context of Canadian suburbia and how "rich schmucks" contribute to the "ugly". I don't get it.

[MonctonRad]

Agreed. There's nothing ugly at all about this vantage point. If you don't like it, we'll gladly take it in Moncton.

I also don't get this guys aversion to "rich schmucks". I presume he must be a socialist hipster from Toronto who hasn't had any job better than being a Starbucks barrista his entire life.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Agreed. There's nothing ugly at all about this vantage point. If you don't like it, we'll gladly take it in Moncton.

I also don't get this guys aversion to "rich schmucks". I presume he must be a socialist hipster from Toronto who hasn't had any job better than being a Starbucks barrista his entire life.

There's really no need to insult people like that. Not every 'socialist' is a Starbucks barista btw. The funny part is I swear almost any white collar professional who had to try working at Starbucks or retail of any kind for a day would probably blow a gasket. I think it should be mandatory for everyone in society to work a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 retail job at some point so they wouldn't be such 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 to people.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

There's really no need to insult people like that. Not every 'socialist' is a Starbucks barista btw. The funny part is I swear almost any white collar professional who had to try working at Starbucks or retail of any kind for a day would probably blow a gasket. I think it should be mandatory for everyone in society to work a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 retail job at some point so they would be more sympathetic to baristas and not look down their noses at them.

Well, unfair perceptions can work both ways. Many socialist hipsters have no idea what sort of pressures can exist for privileged white collar professionals like physicians, constantly making life and death decisions and frequently working 10-11 hour days (not including call responsibilities causing loss of sleep and creating even more mental fog & fatigue). They have no appreciation for the fact that to get to a "privileged" position can take 13 or more years of university and residency and the accumulation of huge amounts of debt (which in turn creates even more stress and anxiety, financial this time). Professionals have made a large investment in what they have become, only to be considered by some others as being only "rich schmucks", which I consider as being nothing more than character assassination.

And yes, I've had my share of crappy jobs as I've progressed in my career, working as a warehouseman and furniture delivery person in the summertime while funding my university education. I've seen the other side. I'm not sure the OP has seen the other side of the "rich schmucks"...........

[O-tacular]

I saw this thing yesterday. It's a bit overcast and hard to tell but it was canary yellow stucco with red tile roof.

[Harrij]

I don't know how NIMBYs would how populate a building that's literally the definition of something NIMBYs love to oppose.

Anyways, it's a decent little tower, nothing awful or special. Would probably be the nicest suburban high-rise in Edmonton by some distance, lol. I get that Toronto forumers have high standards and I understand why, but man, you really gotta see some of the 🞵🞵🞵🞵 out West.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Well, unfair perceptions can work both ways. Many socialist hipsters have no idea what sort of pressures can exist for privileged white collar professionals like physicians, constantly making life and death decisions and frequently working 10-11 hour days (not including call responsibilities causing loss of sleep and creating even more mental fog & fatigue). They have no appreciation for the fact that to get to a "privileged" position can take 13 or more years of university and residency and the accumulation of huge amounts of debt (which in turn creates even more stress and anxiety, financial this time). Professionals have made a large investment in what they have become, only to be considered by some others as being only "rich schmucks", which I consider as being nothing more than character assassination.

And yes, I've had my share of crappy jobs as I've progressed in my career, working as a warehouseman and furniture delivery person in the summertime while funding my university education. I've seen the other side. I'm not sure the OP has seen the other side of the "rich schmucks"...........

Rich schmucks is also an over reach I'll admit. I was mostly just baffled by the choice of that inoffensive condo building for the ugly Canada thread.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Harrij

I don't know how NIMBYs would how populate a building that's literally the definition of something NIMBYs love to oppose.

Anyways, it's a decent little tower, nothing awful or special. Would probably be the nicest suburban high-rise in Edmonton by some distance, lol. I get that Toronto forumers have high standards and I understand why, but man, you really gotta see some of the 🞵🞵🞵🞵 out West.

Lol! Yes! Compared with the Venetian or any number of our fugly stucco high rises it's downright gorgeous!

[O-tacular]

It wasn't my first visit to Cross Iron Mills but somehow the ugly was just as jarring!





The sad part is that unlike the standard stucco box condo that is built on a shoe string budget and thus has 🞵🞵🞵🞵 materials, this place invested tons of money into decor that belongs in a children's theme park. I don't get it.

[Rollerstud98]

Best times I ever had in malls was as a child getting to run around and see all the stuff. That is what they are for! Deerfoot with all the fountains back in the day was my favorite.

[lio45]

Yeah, that building (top of this page) looks really good. IMO, it's much nicer than most postwar Canadian buildings of such volumetry, in fact (of which the quintessential sample would be a repulsive commie block).

[O-tacular]

I found Calgary's Clocktower on the weekend up in the far NW:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.1498616,-...0GURuSTtoE8hw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Not sure if these townhomes are part of the same complex or not but they're equally fugly:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.1517664,-...2ojDUHGCGgOPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Harrij

I don't know how NIMBYs would how populate a building that's literally the definition of something NIMBYs love to oppose.

Anyways, it's a decent little tower, nothing awful or special. Would probably be the nicest suburban high-rise in Edmonton by some distance, lol. I get that Toronto forumers have high standards and I understand why, but man, you really gotta see some of the 🞵🞵🞵🞵 out West.

Dude, It's one guy's opinion!


Is this Toronto?
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.8093765,-...J8zQsxLHqgdN67DZMmVqw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656