Posted Feb 17, 2017, 11:05 PM
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Incidentally, I had an interesting discussion with one of my roommates this morning. I share my pied-à-terre in downtown Sherbrooke with him, he alternates between Sherbrooke and Montreal.
He is carless, and he says Sherbrooke is a lot more walkable than Montreal.
At first sight, I was surprised, but he's correct: due to the fact our downtown isn't as urban as Montreal's, we have all of the following within a couple blocks: three supermarkets, several chain drugstores, tons of restaurants, tea salons and coffee shops, a movie theater, a public library, two medical clinics, one kinda-hospital (public health network), parks, and plenty of independent shops such as a tattoo parlor, an art supplies store, a record store, etc.
In no neighborhood of Montreal can you find a concentration of retail and services that covers all possible needs like this over a mere few blocks square.
He says in Sherbrooke he can do absolutely everything on foot very easily, while at his Montreal place (in a neighborhood way more dense than anything in Sherbrooke) he has to use the subway or the bus occasionally because not everything is always available within a few blocks.
I found that amusing, but he's actually correct...
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