Once again the drinking parties take over Northdale.
Sunday night on Larch.
Monday night - street unknown but noise unmistakable.
Tuesday night - 7:30 - Columbia Street - chanting, singing, yelling, cheering.
The chant unmistakable, signifying the start of the Drunk Semester.
What did CKCO say? Bylaw or police claimed it is the worst in the first week?
Uh-uh. This goes on until Oktoberfest ends.
Ask any of the few non-tenant residents of Northdale.
They'll tell you how it really is.
Cable boxes trashed and blue boxes dumped over again this week too.
Summer bliss has truly ended.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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Why don't you just move? No one makes you live in Northdale. Let the students have their ghetto. Would you rather those students were spread far and wide across the city? Isn't it better to have their damage concentrated in one managable area? Ever considered that maybe the students want to live in peace as well without being harped on by nanny-state neighbours? Students have to live somewhere.
I agree with the previous anonymous poster. Ever heard the term, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven?"
Northdale is an inexpensive neighbourhood located directly North of a university (the best damn university in Canada, if you ask me). I spent last year living in a Kitchener apartment because the rent is cheaper there, and every night I walked home from my bus stop terrified because of the lack of friendly faces - i.e. students - around.
I am now a renter on Hemlock and I witness nothing but attempted cooperation among students and permanent residences. FYI, our non-student neighbours (we live at the Cul-de-Sac area surrounded by permanent residents) have NEVER knocked on our door, offered us help, introduced themselves, been vaguely polite to us at all, or even made eye contact. Same goes for many of my Northdale-residing friends. Neighbourly. Our Landlords (residents of Mississauga) have done way more for us. Besides, if you're going to come out of nowhere and offer us cookies, muffins, etc., think about WHY you're doing that. Is your secret intention, "Here, maybe if they have some of these delicious cranberry muffins, they'll turn their music off at nine and never smoke outside?" It doesn't work that way. You can't bribe us into being perfect little student-bots. You want well-behaved automatons? Move closer to UW.
The other day on a Wednesday I was riding my bike and saw that the wind had scattered garbage all over the yards (thanks, mid-day garbage service). All I could think was, "Great, students will get blamed for this, too."
Also FYI - that's myself and my roommates hopping over our OWN fence - and not to or from a Senior's yard. We often cut through the Northdale Campus school yard when we go grocery shopping. That's not a crime. Oh wait, because we're students, it MUST be a crime, right?
Get real.
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