my sister (another digster - isabel) is up for coming, too!

yay mini-digs-meet!

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Originally posted by geogirl:
meggo, did your hubby grow up in Windsor? What high school did he go to?

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Originally posted by geogirl:
Wow, thats a pretty long drive for you to get to work I bet.

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Originally posted by Heatherina:
Sorry to interrupt all this happy talk about Crowjoy moving (how exciting!) I was just wondering if Kena or anyone else in Montreal ever popped in on this board. My mum and I are headed up there over American Thanksgiving and I wanted a few tips.

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Originally posted by Heatherina:
Any opinions on those- what is not to be missed, and what are a waste of time? Thanks!

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You'll have a bunch of underground malls on Ste-Catherine, but it's mostly chains - stuff you'd find almost anywhere else.

St-Laurent street (between Sherbrooke and Mont-Royal) and Mont-Royal street have fun local designer stores. Some of it is expensive, but you can find good deals. St-Denis has lots of cute little shops - lots of ethnic stuff, jewelry, etc... For outlets, you have a big Château outlet at Namur metro station. And I think there's a bunch of them at Sauvé too.

If you like fancy food, the Jean-Talon market in the Italian neighbourhood is great. You have lots of local stuff (fancy jams, pâtés, etc...), great cheese, etc...

That's all for now (tap tap tap.)

Well I got a number! It appears at first conversion to be a pay cut, which seems a little unreasonable given the higher cost of living in Toronto. But there are other layers to consider like that's base but can my boss make it equal and how does the money I pay for insurance translate? In any case, it's not SO much lower that it nixes the whole idea and it's not higher, which might have made my boss balk. So, now I will proceed with planning our trip and discuss more with my boss when he's back after the holidays. It feels a bit neutral but I shall take it as good news!

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Originally posted by casion:
geogirl, you still on for tonight? is it possible to change the location (literally across the street)...we're kinda broke, and apparently that place is $$...maybe we could meet at a coffee shop?

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Originally posted by casion:
good! is 6pm still good for you?

there's a place called gr33n b3ans in the town square...do you know where that is?

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IBut anyway, we thoroughly enjoyed Montreal- although it was COLD, almost colder than anywhere I have ever experienced (sooo much colder than New England.)

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Next time we go, I'd like to make it in the spring or early summer so we can spend more time by the river and hike up Mont Royal for the view. It was way too cold for that this trip (at least for us- we're wimps!)

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Originally posted by Heatherina:
We went to a great Afghan restaurant on rue Berri/Duluth in an adorable area that I'd love to live in, but I don't know what neighborhood that is.

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That's the Plateau; probably the hippest neighbourhood in Montreal right now.It's the whole area around St-Denis and St-Laurent from Sherbrooke to Laurier streets. (South of that is the Quartier Latin, North is Beaubien-Rosemont, a mostly residential neighbourhood, then Little Italy) I used to live there, but we've relocated to Ville-St-Laurent (Du Collège subway station) because my boy works in the West Island. It's really a great neighbourhood, if a little expensive.

Have you ever heard of the trips you can take up to Cap St. Madeleine (I've probably slaughtered the name, but I always forget it) during March to see the seal migration or something like that? I've always wanted to do that..

There's two places you might be refering to:

- One is Cap-de-la-Madeleine which is a small uneventful city near Trois-Rivières, midway between Quebec City and Montreal, but I doubt there's any seals there.

- The other is Îles-de-la-Madeleine, which is a beautiful chapelet of tiny islands in the St-Lawrence Gulf (way past Prince Edward Island, even though they speak french and are part of Quebec), where it would be possible to see seals I guess (never heard of it, but it's in the middle of the ocean so it would be logical.) It's quite far away though; you have to go there by plane, or by car then by boat (it's a long two-days trip from Montreal).

Uh, not that it matters in the least...glad you had a good time, Heatherina!

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Originally posted by crowjoy:
That right there is a $10,000/year savings for us. So, even if I can't convince my boss to match my current salary (and I know no reason why I can't) we'd still work out even/a little ahead. That will help toward the double taxes.

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So, looking at that week, do we have witnesses? Eeee! My event is only 1 day but I booked 2 for safety. Once we know everyone's availability I can look at flights and do any tweaking from there. Third week of January? Anyone? Anyone?

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Yea, that's me when I ice skate. I try to figure out how to put two pairs of gloves on at the same time (I think I figured it out this year - I'll have to take pics)