to me, this area embodies the best of pre-war residential toronto.
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Another excellent tour by flar, this time of a charming neighbourhood that is so often overlooked or forgotten. I think I know where my next walk will be to. Thanks!
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Thing is: where else could it be? Too bad that most of these houses cost $2 million. Otherwise I'd want to live there.
Great tour, Flar. Thanks. |
Loved walking around that whole westside area of Toronto a coupla months ago. I agree with Kool Maudit, Harbord Village is good stuff.
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There's only one place that could be. Old Toronto definitely has its own, distinctive style of housing.
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A pretty large section of old Toronto looks like this, except some streets in this area have the big boulevards and more trees. The Harbord Village area must have been more upper middle class back in the day.
Heading west, the typical streets are a little plainer and have smaller front yards and fewer trees, more like this: http://www.metroperspectives.com/img...08729304-5.jpg Toronto has those distinctive steep, narrow bay and gables. Hamilton has a similar housing format, but it typically looks more like this: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...tral/00203.jpg |
So it's a neighbourhood of Toronto that looks like Hamilton but costs 5x as much? :P
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Nice pictures! Why did you go to Harbord Village? Is it because it seemingly has an above average stock of Victorian houses?
Where is Harbord Village? I have never heard of this area. |
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I didn't specifically plan to go to Harbord Village. I was just in the area and it seemed like a nice place to take a morning walk. I don't think Harbord Village is even historically the name of this area, the neighbourhood association just started calling it that, probably when it started to (re)gentrify. |
I'm not so sure. People talk about Toronto's distinctive housing vernacular but aside from those attached cottages with the mansard roof, any of those houses could have been in Hamilton. I've always found it to be an interesting phenomenon, really, though I suppose we owe those similarities to geography.
Thanks for the pics, by the way. |
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I would say the pic below shows one of Hamilton's distinctive housing types that's less common in Toronto: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...sley/00017.jpg But this is also in Hamilton: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...2008/00013.jpg http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...tral/00185.jpg |
I would venture to say that the orange brick in Hamilton is bit more vibrant than its Toronto counterpart.
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You didn't get a picture of that fish and chips shop.
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My hood. Too bad I'm a year late to the thread!
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Wow! You JUST missed my parent's old house in picture number 7. It's right beside the right-most house.
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might be my favorite area of toronto.
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2 million? toronto must be hyper-gentrifing. the equivalent is 50k to 300k homes, here. |
It isn't $2 million in Harbord Village - that sounds like The Annex to the north. Average price in HV is about $1 million.
I love the neighborhood! The first pic (corner of Sussex and Major) is one of my favorite Toronto houses. |
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