According to the MLS listings, there's no limit to houses you can buy right now in Chateauguay.
Stack it up with the area on the other side of the bridge and it's tempting to conclude that the bridge is the issue.
It might be a good time to snap up something at a bargain while waiting for the bridge issues to heal. The cheapest is asking $
101,000 but that's a one-bedroom, one bathroom place. Put down
$149,000 and you've bumped up to three bedrooms.
Some years back, I was sitting in the park near the Lachine Canal when a complete stranger rode up to me on his bike and felt compelled to tell me that he had just moved to Lachine from Chateauguay and was glad that he did, having experienced the seemingly-neverending horror of the Mercier Bridge traffic and the bottlenecked accesses to it, plus the frequent and notorious springtime flooding along the Chateauguay River.
ReplyDelete"Smart move.", I agreed.
Elsewhere in this blog, I have offered my frank opinions about the quality of our residential neighbourhoods and which ones are best left avoided for various reasons--many of which might not be readily apparent until after you've moved in. The "Uh-oh, why didn't I think of that?" effect.
While it is not my place to deride anyone's decision as to where they wish to live, a few common sense rules must apply, especially if one must cross a bridge to their workplace in the city.
I'll never forget standing in a crowded office elevator years ago and overhearing a female co-worker going on and on about how awful the early morning bridge traffic was coming into Montreal from her home on the South Shore, to which several bystanders in the elevator chimed in with inevitable comments like, "Time to move!", etc.
"But I LIKE it there.", the complaining woman said, even though in subsequent days she'd repeat her whining.
Sounds like the old parable about the man banging his head against the wall.
"Excuse me, sir, but why are you banging your head against the wall?"
"Because it feels so good when I stop!"
Who was it who said that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".
I tried the living off island thing for 8 years and decided to move back on the island a few months ago. My drive in the morning was 45-60mins in moderate traffic coming in from Rogaud. Not to mention the extra cost of fuel..
ReplyDeleteMy drive to work is now 15 (door to door) mins and under 10 coming back home. I feel better since I'm less stressed out and get a tad more sleep as well. Sure I had to downsize and I don't have wide open spaces as I did in Rigaud but I'm so much closer to a everything. It was perhaps one of the best decisions ive ever made.
When I was a kid in Kirkland, my dad's office moved from downtown -- to Taschereau Blvd.
ReplyDeleteYou can imagine the hours he spent driving to the south shore, or taking the train downtown only to take a bus over a bridge.
Ridonkulous.
-Kevin