For the past month, there has been a fridge in the hallway outside my apartment. The hallway is narrow and I have to squeeze past sideways to get through the door. I've contacted the building manager many times but he is simply ignoring the issue ( Read more... )

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Please be careful walking alone at night and if you can, avoid it at all costs. Especially on Saint Catherine in between Guy and Saint Mathieu ( Read more... )

I'll be moving to Montréal soon, and I am just having a hard time understanding how dangerous some neighborhoods really are. I will be on a very tight budget, so I can't pay much for rent anyway. I was just wondering, is the area around metro Plamondon bad? What about Parc Extension, what's wrong with it? Also, is Verdun a bad area? There are ( Read more... )

Hey Montreal ( Read more... )

I want to make a new post here, apropos of a few comments in the Little Burgundy discussion earlier today, because I think it's worth noting this more prominently than in a late response.

Here's a piece from the Gazette in mid-July this year analyzing crime statistics for 2007. The key summary: The overall crime rate in the Montreal metropolitan ( Read more... )

I'm looking for apartments for next year, and one of the areas I'm considering is Little Burgundy (ie: around Notre Dame, east of the Atwater Market). However, a friend of mine has told me that it's a sketchy, somewhat dangerous neighbourhood. I've only ever been there during the daytime, and only really along Notre Dame itself, so I don't have a ( Read more... )

Hey-Ho, Montreal.
Tell me if you think this is as fishy as I do:

I got home from an appointment this morning to find the following note in my mail-slot:

A V E R T I S S E M E N T

A tous les residents

Il y a eu plusieurs cambriolages dans le quartier. Surveillez vos portes surtout a l'arriere des maisons. Prenez garde des allees et venues des [Nom de ( Read more... )

I decided to take up swimming, but I am horrified with the idea of swimming in a piece of water where 10 people might have peed before. The last one I saw at my previous gym (at another city) was dirty as dishwater, mind you that it wasn't even free. How is the situation in Montreal? I am specifically planning to go to Piscine Levesque since it is ( Read more... )

Which is safer to use in montreal?

I am going to bagus  809 Mont-Royal E to buy jewellery but I don't have any cash with me.

In vancouver it is safer to use credit cards because people have been changing the debit machines which other machines that retain your pin number.  Massive debit fraud in vancouver.

Anything like this going on in montreal?

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