Jasonzed
Senior Member
From Today...
Thanks Six Points! You have a new POV for UT on many projects - the photos are appreciated.
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I think that for those who live inland from the ocean, but not on one of the Great Lakes, that Lake Ontario and the other four are far bigger lakes than most other people normally experience, and that it is not too much of a stretch to think of these particular lakes as inland seas. It would never have hit me that way until first time visitors to TO from the Midwest (they hadn't even been to Chicago to see Lake Michigan at that point) told me "I can't believe you call this a lake!"
So, granted, it's still a bit poetic and romantic to think of Lake Ontario as a sea, and the poetry and romanticism becomes gimmicky in the hands of marketers... but big frickin' deal. Why not celebrate the fact that your condo is on the water? Most getting built close to it do, and they are all scrambling over one another to differentiate themselves from the others, so the theming is going to go in ways slightly skewed from the others. Since we're so often so down on Lake Ontario ('ewww, I would never swim in that') marketers import positive associations with water from elsewhere. Here they're going with the sea, a few blocks away another development is going whole-hog with Ocean Club (hands up, baby).
When it comes down to it, you check out the incredible views of the city these units will have over the Humber Bay parks and the lake, and they could call this place Coromandel* Dreams and I would forgive them.
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* New Zealand, off of Auckland, look it up...