Apr 7 2007
Esplanade
Finally I got to see in which house on Esplanade across Parc Jeanne Mance, Alison and her parents lived in when she was young. Her mother still knew the exact address and showed it to me.
These houses are now very, very expensive but 35 years ago her parents, still studying, could afford to rent them. The Plateau wasn’t yet the hip neighbourhood it is now, and houses where crappy and cheap.
I used to work on a house one block to the North of here, and I can attest that they look nice, but aren’t very well built. And because Montréal was (is) a poor city, landlords and home owners often had no money to spend on maintenance which made matters worse.
Wednesday, 11 April, 2007 @ 09:41
I’ve been in one that had been maintained extremely well. I think the path of my dried drool can still be followed there. Sigh.
Tuesday, 17 April, 2007 @ 06:31
well, my daughter who is going to stay in Montréal for her study this year, she told me she would like to rent a room in the Plateau. Nice to see how the houses there look like
Is there someone who reads this and knows a nice room (studenthouse) in a hip area of Montréal?
Tuesday, 17 April, 2007 @ 08:29
A lot of rooms/apartments are up for rent now, because the academic year is about to end (the summer holidays are very long here; students need to work in the summer to pay for tuition.) But then you have to pay for the whole summer, I don’t know when she wants to get here.
She might want to take a look at McGill classifieds, Montréal Craigslist, or The Hour.
It’s pretty hard to do from the Netherlands though, without getting ripped off. But getting a room is not nearly as hard as in the Netherlands, there is no waiting list of 10 years to find an apartment. It all depends of what you want to pay though. If one of our tenants was moving out she’d be more than welcome here :-)
For a couple of days she can crash here in our guest room of course, and use it as a base to go apartment/room hunting.