Hi. I have no idea whether this will fly or not, but it's predicated on the "Seth, tell us about China" thread. It occurs to me that with all the travelling I've done, rarely have I got a chance to REALLY get to know a town or a city. I've lived in Montreal (18 years), New York (6 months), London ('bout a year), New Orleans (3 months), Amsterdam (4 months) and Toronto (the rest of the time). I think I have some kind of sense of these places, but my memories of the rest of my travels are usually the inside of a performance place.. and maybe a couple of restaurants and a music store. Rarely time for anything else. Thought it might be fun if some people wanted to share descriptions of their home towns (or cities).Scarborough, Ontario.
It's a pretty big suburb of Toronto. Lotsa parks, clubs, stores theatres etc. We live next to Lake Ontario near an are called "the Beach". Scarborough was in the past called "the blue collar" suburb, but much of it seems pretty affluent to me (we ain't!). About five minutes away are "the Bluffs" which are quite impressive. Several miles of very high cliffs (with houses built right to the edge (scary!) There's a great deal of parkland and woods, which encourages ya to go right to the edge of the bluffs and look out over the lake. At least twice every summer the fire dept. has to rescue some kid who got stoned and fell down to the rocks below. Amazingly they rarely kill themselves (just break about 50 bones.) When the weather's calm we can just barely see Watertown New York on the the other side of the lake.
Our #1 concert venue is the Acoustic Harvest Folk Club, and I'm five minutes away from the 12th Fret Music store where I spend ALL my money! Quite a friendly place, and I'm pretty pleased I ended up here. Oh, and we truly lucked out with the houses on either side of us. Great neighbours. But ohhhh these winters....I've shoveled snow three times this week!
Rick