Almost 30 years ago, I began my Realtor career at an office which Bosley Real Estate owns at 169 Danforth Avenue. In those days it was Terry Martel Real Estate, and my first few years were cutting my teeth in Prime Riverdale and Leslieville, although we called it Cabbagetown II at the time, a tribute to the number of Victorian Houses found south of Gerrard.. (Read on …)
No matter what part of the GTA you live in, there is one morning a week when you can hear that refrain in every home: “Garbage Day!! What week is this?”
Nothing gets you scurrying to the windows faster than to see what the neighbors have put out; Recycling, Garbage and is it leaf day? What if the neighbors are wrong? The Leaves can sit there for a month!
Usually someone heads to the kitchen drawer where the calendar was last seen…it’s not there! Someone heads to the utility room…or is it in the garage? Help! (Read on …)
Cabbagetown is a Village in the middle of a big City. One of the many that make Toronto great and one of my favourite areas for its’ diversity. You can have a great coffee at the Jet Fuel Cafe and be verbally abused by the owner, lovingly named Johnny Jetfuel. Do not order a non-fat, no-foam Latte in a double cup (my usual Starbucks order) or you’ll be told “You’ll get it how I make it, with 2%, in one cup, and if you don’t like it-see ya!!” However, if you can be flexible, it’s addictive and the Jet Fuel Cafe’ is the centre of the Cabbagetown Community.
Don’t be intimidated by the would-be Lance Armstrongs walking around in skin tight bicycling outfits. Johnny was a Bicycle Courier in earlier years and it has become the hangout for some really fit. However don’t worry! There are lots of real people, even Realtors like myself.
We live in a great City for biking….I really should do more but I love walking…you get to see so much more… and that is the problem.
As I walk through the City though, I find myself getting angrier and angrier at the Bikers. First of all, I am walking on a sidewalk…not a sidebike. What are bikes doing on a sidewalk especially when they are adjacent to bike lanes? I live next to a street that has bike lanes on it, so what are bicycles doing zooming past me up on the sidewalk, going both ways with little or no respect for the walkers and runners that occupy the “sidewalk”.
It is then that I notice that the rolling racers are not wearing helmuts and that the Government only mandates those under 18 to do so. Yet, in this Province everyone sitting in a car must wear a seatbelt or you get a tagged…does that make any sense? Yesterday, on a very busy thoroughfare I saw a helmut-less mother with a matching helmut-less child in a jump seat behind her. Is it less money for the tax payer to pay for surgery on bikers than it is for car riders?? (Read on …)
