[Unsound]

Random question that came up while drinking last night... Do you think living near a bread factory or a bakery would increase your property value? Cause that sure is a nice smell to have drifting through the neighbourhood.

We also briefly discussed a bacon factory but quickly realized that there's no such thing and that no one would want to live next to a slaughterhouse.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

I've driven through neighbourhoods here in Toronto that have a bakery, and man......it's awesome. The smell of bread and baked goods in the air. I can
only imagine what it would be like to live next to a bacon factory

-J.

[martin14]

Unsound wrote:

Random question that came up while drinking last night... Do you think living near a bread factory or a bakery would increase your property value? Cause that sure is a nice smell to have drifting through the neighbourhood.

We also briefly discussed a bacon factory but quickly realized that there's no such thing and that no one would want to live next to a slaughterhouse.

I can safely say living close to the pulp mill.................. doesn't

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I lived close to Hiram Walkers for years. When I was little, I didn't like the smell, it smelled like burnt toast. As I got older, I grew to enjoy the smell of a new batch of whiskey being distilled.
Now, of the very few things I miss about Windsor, that smell is one of them.

[Brenda]

The smell of fresh baked bread in the morning is awesome The smell of bacon in the morning nauseates me

[RUEZ]

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

I lived close to Hiram Walkers for years. When I was little, I didn't like the smell, it smelled like burnt toast.

Maybe you were just having a lot of siezures when you lived there?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

RUEZ wrote:

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

I lived close to Hiram Walkers for years. When I was little, I didn't like the smell, it smelled like burnt toast.

Maybe you were just having a lot of siezures when you lived there?

Considering the shit-hole Windsor is, that may be a possibility.

[Bruce_E_T]

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

Considering the shit-hole Windsor is, that may be a possibility.

I am not familiar with Windsor at all but I saw a post on another board once from a guy who travelled a lot on business. He said when he went to Detroit he would always stay in Windsor and painted a rosy picture of the place including the remark "it is like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting".

I did not respond.

Anyhow I don't think a local bakery would effect properties one way or the other. I lived near a Chocolate factory once and if the wind blew the right way or it was a very still night the odour would cover the whole area. Its sort of a marker for the area but I don't think it has a $$value attached.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Bruce_E_T wrote:

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

Considering the shit-hole Windsor is, that may be a possibility.

I am not familiar with Windsor at all but I saw a post on another board once from a guy who travelled a lot on business. He said when he went to Detroit he would always stay in Windsor and painted a rosy picture of the place including the remark "it is like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting".

I did not respond.

Oh sure. If yer staying at one of the riverfront hotels facing the water. You don't see the acid rain destruction of the Ojibway forest. You don't get to see the acid rain zone caused by the Ford foundry in a completely different part of town and downwind from the forest(although it may be closed by now).
You don't get to see all the crack houses in Walkerville (it used to be the rich part of town) and Fort Apache aka The Villages of Riverside(always was a ghetto lol).
If one's experience is limited to the downtown strip, Windsor seems like a really nice place, but its proximity to Detroit and the massive unemployment make it anything but.

[Bruce_E_T]

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

If one's experience is limited to the downtown strip, Windsor seems like a really nice place, but its proximity to Detroit and the massive unemployment make it anything but.

Got ya. What you describe is pretty well what I had heard about the area. But having only visited there once I was a little at a loss for a response. It might look great beside Detroit but that is not saying a lot. It also chronically has the highest unemployment rate among ON cities.

[raydan]

I've known people who lived near bad smells (chicken or pig farms, factories) and actually gotten used to the smell. I'd guess that for good smells, it would have the opposite effect and after a few years, you'd either...
...not even smell it anymore
...not appreciate it anymore
...hate the smell

A bit like if you had to eat your one favorite food every day.