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[montrizzle]

Pictures! My view + Old Montreal

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[emer13]

::cough:: didn't you create a lj account just for montreal pics, hmmmmm?

[montrizzle]

Yeah, but two people view it... soooooo... I'm lj-cutting them here.

[eclips1st]

I like seeing them here, personally.

[montrizzle]

Yeah... I think the pics journal is a good idea if I posted a TON of pics... but I don't really, so I'll just lj-cut... those who don't want to see them only have to deal with a three-line post...

[strangeanimal]

that's some view you have, yo.

[montrizzle]

I likes it... though I still don't know if the green and brownish building in front of me is an office building or a residential... could it be both? I guess... the bottom part looks like offices... then the top part looks like apartments... and there's a dep and some stores under it... could you imagine that? You could work, sleep, and shop in the same building!

[strangeanimal]

I had a dep and a mattress store at the bottom of my building in Montreal... it was good to know that if something really odd happened, I was 50 feet away from a new mattress. ;)

[montrizzle]

I got... a travel company and language education place. Oh vell. I can't complain cause I am right in the cheap-eats part of downtown... a meal for $2 is not uncommon!

[natablue]

It looks beautiful there! I'd love to visit Montreal sometime, I've been to Toronto, but from your pictures Montreal looks much more historic and worldly.

[montrizzle]

It's got both... when you're in Old Montreal, you feel like you're in Europe... meanwhile, downtown feels like New York City... it's definitely nice to have both styles in one city.

[moonlightjoy]

mwahaha! now I know where you live!

[montrizzle]

Hehe, you did see Emer and I exiting the building once, too... :)

[moonlightjoy]

hehe.. yeah.. i know. but now I know which floor you live on, too.

[nicoli_dominn]

Oh man...I REALLY want to go to McGill...so many good points about that school, and now that I know what its surroundings look like (from a non-brochure point of view)...DEFINITELY want to go.

[montrizzle]

Well, McGill's area is a bit more in the downtown area, which is walking distance from Old Montreal, but actual neighborhood looks more like New York City. I love how you walk ten blocks from an area that feels like NYC to an area that feels like Paris.

[nicoli_dominn]

Sounds like Boston...haha.

[montrizzle]

It's a notable comparison, except Montreal's downtown is much, much, MUCH more compact. You can walk from one end of downtown to another in 20-25 minutes. Not saying there's not much there, just that it's all jammed together.

I just walked through McGill... yes... at 6:41 AM... don't ask... or do ask, it was a long and fun night :)