I've been trying to scale back my newsprint addiction. Picking up the Globe at the Korean Extortionist's runs about twenty-five bucks a week. You'd think that would entitle you to "free" access to their on-line edition, but you'd be wrong.
The Monday to Thursday papers are mighty thin. On Friday you get the thin paper plus a real estate and a car section, for the same price as you pay for those thin papers from Monday to Thursday, so the Friday paper is, relatively speaking, a good deal.
Today, in the Friday Real Estate section, I was pleased to find a French chateau available in the vicinity of downtown, at 111 Givins St. to be precise.
I don't know what picture forms in your mind when you read "French chateau," but for me the words conjure up images of sophisticated estates surrounded by opulent gardens.
Not that I'm seriously shopping for a French chateau or anything else in downtown, but it's nice to dream...
For $3.8 million, your French chateau in downtown Toronto is parked on a twenty foot lot.
That's not a chateau, it's a new build on an infill lot.
Nevertheless, somebody will buy it, probably above list price.
That's what Toronto has become. A great place to live if you've got four million to spend on a nice house with twenty feet of frontage.
For everyone else, it's best to look elsewhere.
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