The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 370

MolsonExport · #**7381** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Question: Is London the Laval of Ontario? Or would that be Kitchener / Waterloo?

London is Irkutsk or Novosibirsk of Ontario. With somewhat better weather.

The Laval of Ontario is Scarborough. Mega Malls, commie blocks and modern slabs, cookie cutter housing tracks, and of course, freeways. London hasn't any freeways (except on the most southern periphery), and lacks Mega Malls.

WhipperSnapper · #**7382** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:06 PM**

New condo development in Toronto

http://www.rodeocondos.ca/

O-tacular · #**7383** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:07 PM**

Airdrie attempts modern:

Condos!

Who wouldn't want to eat facing a blank beige corner?

MolsonExport · #**7384** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:08 PM**

irkutsk

irkutsk.org

O-tacular · #**7385** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

New condo development in Toronto

http://www.rodeocondos.ca/

Haha! Toronto has rodeo condos and we don't! The building itself looks not the worst. Not great but nothing like Laval's newest batch of Urbania condos.

SignalHillHiker · #**7386** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:13 PM**

Do they pronounce Rodeo the California way?

It's not as bad as I expected. Acceptable as background noise in a city Toronto's size.

Acajack · #**7387** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Haha! Toronto has rodeo condos and we don't! The building itself looks not the worst. Not great but nothing like Laval's newest batch of Urbania condos.

Note that it's "roh-day-oh", not "road-ee-oh"!

WhipperSnapper · #**7388** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

London is Irkutsk or Novosibirsk of Ontario. With somewhat better weather.

The Laval of Ontario is Scarborough. Mega Malls, commie blocks and modern slabs, cookie cutter housing tracks, and of course, freeways. London hasn't any freeways (except on the most southern periphery), and lacks Mega Malls.

I don't see the connection. Scarborough has one freeway (the 401 which bisects the entire province) and one mega mall. Laval doesn't seem to have commie blocks and Scarborough doesn't really have the towers in park modern slab communities. You may as well go Durham Region.

MolsonExport · #**7389** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Capulet Lane! How charming! Is there a Montague Gate nearby? And a Romeo Drive and a Juliet Walk?

Crap-you-let lane. Utterly bereft of Charm. I pass by it daily.

WhipperSnapper · #**7390** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Haha! Toronto has rodeo condos and we don't! The building itself looks not the worst. Not great but nothing like Laval's newest batch of Urbania condos.

It's more the name. Building is just the typical fat glass block in order to cram 750 units in it.

kwoldtimer · #**7391** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Note that it's "roh-day-oh", not "road-ee-oh"!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=day...8CBE025CF6DC9BBFDB7C8CBE025C&FORM=VRDGAR

Acajack · #**7392** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=day...8CBE025CF6DC9BBFDB7C8CBE025C&FORM=VRDGAR

Come mistah tally man, tally me banana.

Que de beaux souvenirs!

niwell · #**7393** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 3:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Brampton builds very few towers

Vaughan does come close with their previous two high rise masterplans (here and here ) and newer developments ( here ) that continue with twins, triplets, quads and quints. I think Capulet is a less depressing area than this newer one.

Those new condos are technically better looking than the Capulet ones (although not by much), but the area is beyond grim. It's fronting a major road in an employment area. There's literally nothing worth walking too unless you work in one of the nearby warehouses.

MolsonExport · #**7394** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 4:17 PM**

The Capulet Lane project has expanded. Four towers are in various stages of completion, behind the equally fugly RONA (the no-longer Canadian "CAN-DO" people").

See the beauty here: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Wonderl...0cfa8bad3!8m2!3d42.9883661!4d-81.2950386

SignalHillHiker · #**7395** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 4:30 PM**

I'm starting to suspect RONA and Reno Depot are the same company.

Acajack · #**7396** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 5:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I'm starting to suspect RONA and Reno Depot are the same company.

They are. It didn't start out that way but they merged a few years ago.

SignalHillHiker · #**7397** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 5:10 PM**

Well, clearly we need to boycott them. Hideous cityscapes spread outward from their locations as though they were the roots for the ample-parking-and-concrete blossom.