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Kate 12:34 on 2019-05-09 Permalink Reply  

• mare 00:56 on 2019-05-10 Permalink

  Smart, but last fall the city made us pay a few hundred dollars to treat our ash by injecting a lot of poison in its trunk. I suppose we won’t get that back.

  It shows no symptoms yet, maybe because they’re nearly no trees left in the backyards in our alley to serve as a stepping stone. Most people removed all trees from their backyards to facilitate parking cars or having a swimming pool.

  (If you spy on your neighbourhood with Google Maps satellite view it’s really amazing too see how many people have a pool in a dense residential neighbourhoods like Petite-Patrie. Just on my block I count 8 round pools in gardens and one huge round hot tub on someone’s roof. And I know a neighbour converted her whole yard into an indoor pool and spa.)

• Kate 12:32 on 2019-05-12 Permalink

  mare, this is where an extra few meters of back yard make a huge difference. There are virtually no pools in my part of Villeray. On my side of the alley there are small yards but, across from me, some houses have barely enough clearance for a small back porch and stairs. No room for a pool anywhere on my block and no sign of any for blocks in any direction on Google.

• mare 22:08 on 2019-05-12 Permalink

  Yeah, the backyards in our street are very big, especially on our side. And the street side also has decent yards and a very wide street with sidewalks and big trees. Villeray is more a neighbourhood for labourers.