28 Sep The Benefits of Living In Le Plateau

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The Benefits of Living In Le Plateau

The benefits about living in Le Plateau were made clear to me this week when I finally had the opportunity to meetup with Judy, a fellow Texan colleague of mine.  She got wise years ago about buying property here in Montreal. The summers in Texas are brutally hot, somewhat in comparison to our winters that are often insanely cold! Thankfully, this past winter here in Montreal, was one of the mildest on record. I’m afraid to think about this winter coming up, all I can say is I hope we don’t get an extremely harsh one in response to the mild one we had last year! While some of us Montrealers flee south for parts of our winter, my colleague flees north, here to Montreal for her summers. Years ago she discovered and fell in love with Le Plateau deciding to take the plunge and purchase a vacation property there. In fact she sent me an article written by Stephen J. Lyons, for The American Way that seemed to reflect a similar experience to hers of the Le Plateau neighborhood. You can read the article below;

The Mont-Royal Treatment

At the POP Montreal headquarters in the heart of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood, it’s easy to get caught up in the creative buzz. Far from the gleaming skyscrapers of downtown Montreal, th