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“The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Re: “The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Post by JamisonM »

I don't know very much about this stuff but it seems to me that the fairly dense housing just "behind" the wall relative to the prevailing winds would suffer from A LOT of snow accumulation.

I am sure I would enjoy living in that building and the community design seems good, if not quite as dense as might be ideal given some of the green space placement. If they have concerns about the wind they really need a lot more trees, I would venture a guess that a couple of good windrows of trees would be as good or better than the building -- but then of course trees aren't houses!

Re: “The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Post by melissalobos »

mrgriscom wrote: post #2

I've actually been here: http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ Quite a weird place, though definitely not 50m tall.

Thanks for sharing this, I have always wanted to go to Labrador. Just need much higher resolution pictures(send back a mirrorless DSLR to 2009?).

Re: “The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Post by cmehdy »

mig39 wrote: post #26

I was in Fermont a long time ago. I was driving from Goose Bay all the way south. in the 90s, the Labrador highway wasn't paved, it was just rough gravel. I got a flat tire somewhere near the border, then pulled into Fermont and tried my best high school-level French to find somewhere to fix my flat tire. I asked the guy at the gas station: "Excusez-moi, savez-vous où je peux trouver un garage pour réparer mon pneu c…

FWIW your French is impeccable, and indeed there's no shortage of culture shock between France and Quebec for this sort of stuff.

source: French from FR living in QC :)

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Post by gmfawcett »

mig39 wrote: post #26

I was in Fermont a long time ago. I was driving from Goose Bay all the way south. in the 90s, the Labrador highway wasn't paved, it was just rough gravel. I got a flat tire somewhere near the border, then pulled into Fermont and tried my best high school-level French to find somewhere to fix my flat tire. I asked the guy at the gas station: "Excusez-moi, savez-vous où je peux trouver un garage pour réparer mon pneu c…

If you want a happy rabbit-hole to visit for a few minutes, take a look at these examples of "Chiac", an Acadian French variety spoken in parts of New Brunswick:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiac#Example_sentences

A slightly legendary music video in Chiac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cRPH4lb8UI

Right drôle!

Re: “The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Post by Findecanor »

I measured only 911 m on Google Maps, along the roof, and there is a sharp kink in that line and few smaller ones.

The Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna, Austria is over 1000 m in a straight line, from one end to the other. Still the longest residential building in the world.

Re: “The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Post by dheera »

mig39 wrote: post #26

I was in Fermont a long time ago. I was driving from Goose Bay all the way south. in the 90s, the Labrador highway wasn't paved, it was just rough gravel. I got a flat tire somewhere near the border, then pulled into Fermont and tried my best high school-level French to find somewhere to fix my flat tire. I asked the guy at the gas station: "Excusez-moi, savez-vous où je peux trouver un garage pour réparer mon pneu c…

English in Newfoundland is also another level.

Typical greeting isn't "What's up" but "Where ya at?" The response I was told is "This is it."

Re: “The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec

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Post by dghughes »

gmfawcett wrote: post #34
mig39 wrote: post #26

I was in Fermont a long time ago. I was driving from Goose Bay all the way south. in the 90s, the Labrador highway wasn't paved, it was just rough gravel. I got a flat tire somewhere near the border, then pulled into Fermont and tried my best high school-level French to find somewhere to fix my flat tire. I asked the guy at the gas station: "Excusez-moi, savez-vous où je peux trouver un garage pour réparer mon pneu c…

If you want a happy rabbit-hole to visit for a few minutes, take a look at these examples of "Chiac", an Acadian French variety spoken in parts of New Brunswick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiac#Example_sentences A slightly legendary music video in Chiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cRPH4lb8UI Right drôle!

A guy I worked with from New Brunswick was bilingual. He dated a woman from northern New Brunswick she only spoke French. When he met her parents he said her dad scowled at his poor French. To the father he was not French. So this person my co-worker bilingual French/English since birth had to take French lessons. I guess the words he used were bizarre to French-only ears.
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