leftfieldto
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If you've eaten squab, you've eaten pigeon. It's a bird, like chicken. Seriously, what's the difference?Who would want to eat a pigeon???
I would dump!
If you've eaten squab, you've eaten pigeon. It's a bird, like chicken. Seriously, what's the difference?Who would want to eat a pigeon???
I would dump!
Toronto only does balconies at all is because investors buying units off plans think they need them. Very few want to stand on a windy diving board 230m in the air...I love balconies but if it's not big enough to use as an outdoor room, it becomes borderline useless. One of the reasons I bought in my building was that the condo came with a usable balcony. I've got 21 plants out there, a table for 4 at one end, a table for 2 at the other end, and they'd still be room for another 8 people. And with solid concrete walls, you never feel like you're dangling off the side of the building. It's a proper outdoor room. In a city with a dearth of clean safe green space, living in a high-rise with a usable balcony is invaluable. I spend a couple hours out there every day, 7-8 months/year.
If they're going to bother building balconies, design them so they're usable space.
If you’ve eaten beef, you’ve eaten cow. It’s a mammal, like a cat. Seriously, what’s the difference?If you've eaten squab, you've eaten pigeon. It's a bird, like chicken. Seriously, what's the difference?
It's actually both on Metrotown. It features folding glass to enclose the outdoor space as semi-indoor. You can see it all accordion-ed up on the right side of the image.That's a really nice outdoor space, but that apartment would be a whole lot better if it was all inside space! The difference between a 1168 sf apartment and a 1900 sf apartment is the difference between being able to have one kid, or have 2-3 kids.
It also comes down to the design. We had two spacious balconies, however, there was one fatal flaw, every other persons balcony was above us and in a dangerous way. One time I was just in my room when I see a shadow. I look out the window, when a blanket or mattress had fallen onto our balcony. The next day, another one had fallen on a balcony below us. Also, balcony design was not private at all. Everyone could just watch each other. What building am I talking about? Monde. Man that condo sucked. I have such bad experiences with that condo. Dude the sauna had collapsed a couple years after the building had opened. The ceiling in the sauna collapsed… the pool was also closed for 2 years after just 1 year of it being open due to leakages. So much more I’ll probably post on the Monde thread. If you want to live there please don’t. Quality is overall bad and cheap. It may look good on the outside, but surely not on the inside.I prefer to have a balcony & use mine quite a bit. I think it comes down to personal preference.
(ii) levels 63 to 75 will be modified from a four-Unit layout to a ten-Unit layout...