Apartment613

Forget politics, race or religion… the real dividing line in Ottawa is urban vs suburban. Are you a pretentious yuppie willing to pay exorbitant prices for a tiny downtown condo? Or are you a cultureless drone happy to live a boring existence at the ends of the earth for the sake of more square footage? This series of videos by posted on YouTube is perhaps the most succinct depiction of the eternal battle between these two incompatible philosophies.

Looking For A House in Barrhaven by Littlepun1 (above), the first and most popular in the series with 42,000 hits, takes the side of downtown, pointing out the drawbacks of the suburbs (no bars, long treks to civilization, no fun). These rebuttals, Having a Party in Barrhaven by chappah and Barrhaven Rebuttal by bloomcounty40, take the side of the suburbs by complaining about long lines, high drink prices and the smell of urine. All three are pretty funny.

Just a couple of points for chappah in his defense of Farhaven: we also have rooms that act like your mythical suburban garages… they are called basements. My friend Josh has a pingpong table in his. Plus where are you getting these $8 beers? The Chateau Laurier? Don’t make the mistake of confusing downtown with the market… Elgin, Preston Street and Beechwood are also downtown and avoid most of the stuff you were complaining about.