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Originally Posted by megadude
The more and more those mcmansions are introduced into those mediocre neighbourhoods on the fringe of the city the more and more the houses like the one in the middle go up in price.
There are people who are paying $900k to $1mil for that house to actually live in and not knock down. And even if your immediate street looks nice with several newly built mcmansions, the moment you turn the corner to the next street or to the main street like Dufferin, you enter a clusterfuck of mediocrity and traffic congestion.
For one million and above, I want to be in an area that doesn't suck your soul out of your body when you have to go to the store or to work everyday.
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Ha ha. I live in this area...and you're right. It is the worst of a lot of worlds. It has the cost of the old city of Toronto, but it has the charm of Scarborough. It might be one of the most congested parts of the city, which is really saying something.
One thing I find kind of amusing is that this area was one of the first parts of Toronto to suburbanize, so it was built for the car, but before car-based developers or planners had any idea what they were doing. The early postwar strip malls that line streets like Bathurst or Dufferin have parking lots that are too cramped to really navigate around in a car, so they're rife with double parking or people driving onto the sidewalk to get out onto the street.
The area has grown on me, but in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. There are some good ethnic restaurants out here, and coupled with the haggard state of the architecture, the high amount of traffic congestion and the general chaos of the parking situation, it kind of reminds me of parts of the developing world.