If you are going to get lucky in Westmount, the authorities must be alerted beforehand. According to Westmount law, you must inform the municipality if someone plans to stay overnight at the home of a Westmounter. The city needs to know before 11 pm otherwise they will ticket your non-Westmount car for being parked for more than four hours on the street after 11 pm. This is Westmounts way of keeping non-Westmount douchebag commoner blood from mixing with pure rich-folk elite blood. It is unfortunate that the gene pool doesnt always self-censor but such measures are, unfortunately, necessary.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Westmounts racial purity laws
If you are going to get lucky in Westmount, the authorities must be alerted beforehand. According to Westmount law, you must inform the municipality if someone plans to stay overnight at the home of a Westmounter. The city needs to know before 11 pm otherwise they will ticket your non-Westmount car for being parked for more than four hours on the street after 11 pm. This is Westmounts way of keeping non-Westmount douchebag commoner blood from mixing with pure rich-folk elite blood. It is unfortunate that the gene pool doesnt always self-censor but such measures are, unfortunately, necessary.
There are overnight street parking restrictions in Cote St-Luc, Beaconsfield, etc....if 99% of the population have driveways, why shouldn't they use them??? Why block the streets from having their snow cleared or the water cleaning unit or sweeper pass by??? Many people in NDG HAVE driveways, but park on the street simply because it is "easier" than moving 1 out if the front-end vehicle wants to leave first.
ReplyDeleteOf course, one could also bother the rent-a-cop, the Nicolet dropout who dreams of big things, and call every day with the name of a different woman overnighting at your house...
Ah! The famous Westmount Split Mansion™ on Place Belvédère (seen from Cercle Summit)… This is a staple I show every visitor I bring to the Belvédère Summit to explain the assinine bourgeois mindset who are so dead-set against poor people that they use all means necessary to exclude them, up to prohibiting semi-detached homes (the house was split because it could not have been turned legally into a semi-detached).
ReplyDeleteIn terms of douchebaggy assinineness, this is at par with Mont-Royal locking the gates on Hallowe’en, or Kirkland locking a gate every night.
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As of parking restrictions, Westmount isn’t the most assinine. 30 years ago, overnight parking was prohibited in Outremont, which was a kind of bummer in the “poorer” northern district where triplexes and appartment buildings abound. For residents, it was an incessant hunt for a private parking spot, all thanks to snobbish douchebaggery (I mean, those proles, they should not have cars; after all, the streetcar runs through Outremont!). Eventually, the municipal administration relented and eventually relaxes it’s rules by implementing a byzantine system of zones and areas and sections indicated by unreadable signs (Montréal did not invent any thing) where parking was possible overnight at the cost of one’s eyesight if not sanity.
Ah, the langage some posters use here...
ReplyDeleteThe Westmount mansion in your picture used to belong to the Timmins family, owners of gold mines and the town of Timmins Ontario. Used to be a single house before old man Timmins died.
I had friends who lived in a co-op in a big Outremont mansion. they were evicted (this was in the 1970s) because the Outremont by-law at the time prohibited people not related to each other from living under the same roof, unless they were hired help.
I don't live in Westmount but I have lived in plenty of places that had restrictions on street parking. I dont think it has anything to do with eliteism or "racial purity"
ReplyDeleteI think a residential street with cars parked bumper to bumper on both sides looks like crap.
As far as keeping the poor people away....I have lived in poor neihborhoods and rich ones.
Although rich people can be petty assholes at times, they are extremely unlikely to creep onto your balcony at night to steal your bicycle. They also tend to not have the police at their place every weekend and will rarely keep you awake all night by drinking/yelling/fighting under your bedroom window.
Poor people deserve their bad reputation. If I paid 3 million for my home, I would want to keep them away too.
Thanks for pointing out the name of the split-mansion.
ReplyDeleteI live in that poor (the poorest) neighbourhood that’s a 5 minute walk from that rich (the richest) neighbourhood, and people certainly don’t creep to try stealing my bicycle. They rather look after each other’s and when one’s cat disappear, it’s not long before a neighbour brings it back home.
Sure. After they've secretly harvested the poor cat's kidneys for sale as an aphrodisiac in China. Get real. The poor folk are a shifty bunch.
ReplyDeleteYes, it’s true. The poor are the reason why zillions of mortgage were given to insolvent people…
ReplyDeleteN’importe-quoi.
I mean, there would be no crime if there weren’t any victims.
Say what you will about rich people - they are NOT all cut from the safe cloth. Yes, some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but in most cases today, no one handed their money and success to them on a silver platter.
ReplyDeleteFrom my knowledge, this house was split up because of a nasty divorce. Not because one section was intended for the hired help.
ReplyDeleteI am proud to say I egged that house on numerous occaisions, fortified by a few Brador.
ReplyDeleteThe house belonged to Noah Timmins who died in 1936 and his wife Lelia Pare Timmins lived there until she died in 1956. It was too big to sell and thus salvaged from being torn down by an architect who suggested it be divided. Mary C
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