Our neighbours are great. Probably perfect neighbours in fact: Very friendly, casual, not super loud (but not so quiet that we feel bad when we're loud), take out the recycling compost and trash regularly, leave plenty of parking space in the garage, it goes on, and we've only been here 2 weeks.
In London we spoke to exactly one of our neighbours and I'm pretty sure she was actually hitting on my bf most of the time. We've already chatted with lots of our neighbours here, and the friendliness of Canadians typology appears to be true (including the foreign born Canadians). There is a pronounced and lovely neighbourhood feel where we are.
The only tiny difference - that I don't think would ever happen in London - is that we don't have control of our own heating. Shock, horror. We live upstairs, our landlord owns the whole house and our neighbours downstairs control the heating of the whole house. Which means when they aren't home (for example are in Montreal for 4 days) we are left in the cold.
I'm sure once we speak to our neighbours about it (that lovely Cdn friendliness comes back to bite us in the ass. we don't want to be too demanding too early), we will figure out some kind of system that hopefully isn't too energy wasting but also doesn't leave us lighting fires in metal rubbish bins in our own living room in the winter.
Luckily, for now (other than that long weekend stint), they like it HAUTE. And we got an electric heater just in case.
In London we spoke to exactly one of our neighbours and I'm pretty sure she was actually hitting on my bf most of the time. We've already chatted with lots of our neighbours here, and the friendliness of Canadians typology appears to be true (including the foreign born Canadians). There is a pronounced and lovely neighbourhood feel where we are.
The only tiny difference - that I don't think would ever happen in London - is that we don't have control of our own heating. Shock, horror. We live upstairs, our landlord owns the whole house and our neighbours downstairs control the heating of the whole house. Which means when they aren't home (for example are in Montreal for 4 days) we are left in the cold.
I'm sure once we speak to our neighbours about it (that lovely Cdn friendliness comes back to bite us in the ass. we don't want to be too demanding too early), we will figure out some kind of system that hopefully isn't too energy wasting but also doesn't leave us lighting fires in metal rubbish bins in our own living room in the winter.
Luckily, for now (other than that long weekend stint), they like it HAUTE. And we got an electric heater just in case.
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