Guest bad hombre Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 Hey guys, I'm browsing places for next year. I was wondering if you guys could tell me where the heck stonybrook masonville is (i.e. along which of the main roads?). How far would that be from medsci,downtown, etc.? Also, under what are would you classify Richmond Road 600-1000??? I'm eyeing a place on 695 Richmond... seems a little expensive for 149,000 but it looks awesome. Thanks Hombre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TimmyMax Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 Hey, 695 Richmond is at Richmond and Mill, across from The Ceeps, a popular London establishment (you may have been there once). It's on the main bus routes, is about a half-hour walk from campus and about a five to ten minute drive depending on traffic. The apartments there are frickin' sweet! As for Stonybrook Masonville, I don't know exactly where that would be, but I'd hazard to guess Fanshawe Park Road, east of Richmond. About a twenty-five or minute walk to campus or about a ten minute drive, but aneliz would know better. Best of luck! Timmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bad hombre Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 Me? At the Ceeps? No way! I'm liking that 695 Richmond... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest therealcrackers Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 There are many med students live in that there building, hombre... and they like it a WHOLE lot. Stonybrook Masonville is north and east of Fanshawe Pk. Rd. and Richmond, so a GOOD 30-35 minutes' walk from campus, but quite reasonable with a car. A couple of my classmates live up there in a heckuva pad. Anywhere else you're considering for your potential pied-a-terre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adlinner Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 Hey for those of you looking for a place from out of town, check out this web site by the City of London, my favourite corporation: www.city.london.on.ca/_private/Maps/Maps.htm and click CityMap You can search for streets, intersections and addresses. When you zoom in, it has the lot number so you can actually pin point where 695 Richmond is without knowing the nearest intersection. It has an photograph view which shows you a real bird's eye view of what the buildings look like and what's around them. It marks bus routes, places of worship, parks, malls, pools, soccer fields (very impt), the university, libraries, etc. If you click on "LTC bus routes" from the link above, instead of CityMap, you'll go to a site with the bus schedules as well as the routes. You might find one apartment with a frequent bus route and another with a bus that comes every 30min. To orientate yourself: 1) click on "M" on the left column, which is major attractions. This will bring an "M" up southwest of Western Road and Windermere. This is where Med Sci is. (If you click on Identify, 2nd tab at top, you'll see the M is actually showing Western's art gallery.) 2)The heart of downtown is Dundas and Richmond: click "Intersections" on the left column and type in, "Dundas St / Richmond St" - most bars will be within a 1k radius from there. Good luck house/condo hunting - hopefully I'll see some of you next year in the Jacksway condos where I'll be living! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UWOMED2005 Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 695 Richmond is fairly pricey, but gorgeous condos and right smack downtown. My friends who live their often end up hosting the evening predrink before hitting the Frog, Barney's, the Ceeps, Molly's, or TJ's (good weather only.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lcloh Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 Hmm. Well let's lay London out for you. The format I'll adopt is (minutes walking, minutes by car, minutes by bus) (prices) Minutes walking etc. is from the place to med sci, door-to-door. LONDON-WEST Common places to live: Houses. Usually. But many of these houses have rooms available for rent. They can often be found in the Castlegrove Ave. (south of Sarnia) area or the Wychwood Pk (north of Sarnia) area. Usually go for about $500/person. Also there are some apartments around, e.g.: Sarnia and Wonderland (35, 5, 15) ($575/single) Wonderland and Oxford (60, 10, 25) (no idea) Anything further, and you're asking for it. Rent gets cheaper but it's far. We had four guys who lived in apartments down at Wonderland and Springbank (140, 20, 55.) ($450/single) LONDON-NORTH This consists of Masonville Gardens and assorted condominiums in the Masonville area. Also some of the big houses in the Ambleside Road area often have rooms for rents. Masonville Gardens is across from Masonville Mall, which has a cinema, everything you need, a Loblaws up the street, banks, and gas stations. It's also (35, 5, 15) ($750/1 bedroom/1.5 bathrooms.) There are other condos, but those are ridiculously priced from what I've heard. GLENMORE APARTMENTS This refers to apartments that are owned by Western on Western's campus. I don't know why I'm including them in here because they're virtually never vacant and the only way people can usually get one is by a tenant-name transfer... they're pretty sweet prices for where they're located.. .(7, 1, N/A.) RICHMOND NORTH APARTMENTS There's so many of them that they deserve their own section. The Richmond apartments consist of the apartments south of the Western Road junction and north of University Drive on Richmond. Starting northenmost, these include: 1570 Richmond - Green Gables (25, 5, 15) 1510 Richmond (25, 5, 15) 1267 Richmond - Broughdale Arms (15, 3, 15) 1265 Richmond - Whitehall (15, 3, 15) 1231 Richmond - Dorchester Apartments (15, 3, 15) 1201 Richmond - Parkdale Place (15, 3, 15) The apartments all in this area go for about 600-700 bucks a single, less if you're splitting with someone. The reason the bus and walking times are the same is that there are bridges across the river to campus, whereas the bus has to loop around to get to med sci. RICHMOND ROW APARTMENTS There's some sweet apartments that are just right close to campus and right close to the nightlife scene and all the bars on Richmond Row (Richmond and Pall Mall would have to be the centre of bar district, except for those further down e.g. Phoenix.) These include 675 and 695 Richmond. I've been told these are pretty expensive and they're (30, 7, 15). LONDON-EAST APARTMENTS There are some people that lived at the Adelaide Towers at Adelaide and Fanshawe this year. That's (60, 15, 35.) It's far out, but cheaper again. There are also rooms for rent in the Oxford/Adelaide area, ask TimmyMax, I heard he lived in a hole of one. OLD SOUTH Mostly houses and rooms for rent. They're cheap, but it's really far and bus service is poor (one friend of mine had to switch three buses to get to campus.) They'd probably be like (75, 20, 50). Hope that's helpful! If you have any questions about any particular location in London, post here or on http://www.uwomeds.com/forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PARTY cal Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 Hey Icloh, Awesome post, many thanks. I have been looking at a townhouse at 1500 Richmond street...so I think that falls into your "Richmond North Apartments" section. It will be about $450 + util and sharing with a few other people. The location sounds great...but maybe a little far from the nightlife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JSS02 Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 From Parkdale/Somerset/Dorchester (1201-1231 Richmond), you can get to school (if you're lucky enough to not have to wait) in about 6 minutes during the morning... 3 minutes walking and 3 minutes by bus. Route 6 goes through campus until about 12:30 (when it does "the loop" as described above), and it runs a lot more often during rush hours. The good thing about the changeover to the loop in the afternoon is that the bus will go straight from Natural Sciences to the Richmond gates, so you can also get home in about 6 minutes. Of course, when just walking only takes 12-15 minutes, it's not like you're saving a whole lot of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lcloh Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 PartyCAL: yeah, it's not too bad actually.. the cab ride downtown would probably cost you no more than $10 if you were planning a bar trip, so yea. And if you're splitting that with three other buddies... then it's totally cool. I forgot about all those townhouses - usually they're a bit harder to deal with, you need to get like 3/4/5 more roommates. JSS: I forgot about that! Yeah, the Richmond does the funky loop counterclockwise in the AM and clockwise in the PM, so the 15 minutes only applies if you're trying to get to med sci in the PM, and it's 6 minutes in the AM because it's going the "right" way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bad hombre Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 that description was money lawrence... nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lcloh Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 no prob buddy. you know where the party's at... BARNEY'S, september, mr. 0.95 meds 2007! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sarah363 Posted June 26, 2003 Report Share Posted June 26, 2003 Hi Bad Hombre, I just finished 3 yrs of undergrad at UWO and I'll be starting meds here in Sept. I live at 695 Richmond Street... a few posts ago you mentioned that you were interested in the building. It's a great place to live! If you'd like any info about it (different styles of apartment, amenities, etc) send a message to my ezInbox. I'd be glad to help you out! Sarah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aneliz Posted June 29, 2003 Report Share Posted June 29, 2003 In disagreement with lcloh's post.... Masonville Gardens is no more than 20 minutes walk (door to door with med sci) not 35!!!! (I think you could crawl there in that much time....) Bus is ~7 minutes and car also around 7-8 minutes by the time you park and walk over to med sci. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adlinner Posted June 29, 2003 Report Share Posted June 29, 2003 Hey Aneliz, What bus route do you usually take from Masonville Gardens? I've looked on the map and it looks like the Wellington is the one that goes by the condos most frequently but it doesn't drop you off in front of Med Sci. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mying Posted June 29, 2003 Report Share Posted June 29, 2003 Re: the Richmond North apartments... The 12 minute walk is totally worth it if you're any piece of a nature/outdoors type. You get to walk along the river, and it's about as wild as anything can get this deep in the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lcloh Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 Aneliz - yeah... 35 minutes is wrong.. I forgot what I was thinking when I typed that. Moral of the story: Don't be on eBay and EZBoard at work at the same time. You spend too much time looking over you shoulder to see if your boss is coming. Did I also mention "FOOT PATROL"? yes, for all you single ladies out there, (and single guys too if you're scared of the dark), Western operates a foot patrol service where co-ed pairs of escorts walk you home. They walk you from any building on campus as far as the Platts Lane estates and also along all the Richmond North apartments numbered between 1201 and 1267. They do NOT walk you to Masonville Gardens, Richmond/Oxford or anywhere ridiculously off campus. So if you're planning to make use of the foot patrol, they operate from 6pm-1am during the school year (except during exams and O-Week where they operate 9pm-1am), you might wanna take this into consideration too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest therealcrackers Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 lcloh is right --- I was a dispatcher for the same service one night a week for the last two years. Areas off campus that Foot Patrol will service: Huron St. west of Richmond aka the undergrad ghetto Bayfield, Ausable, Lambton Halls (the on-campus apartments) Dorchester, Whitehall, Senate, Somerset, Parkdale Place apartment buildings (off campus Richmond St. apartments), 251 and 261 Platt's Lane (off campus apartments SW of campus), Epworth, Mayfair and Bernard Sts. (across from the Richmond apartments) and everywhere on campus. It's a very good and underused service, especially by med students studying late. To correct lcloh a bit (because I know it inside and out), the service runs 6-1 am, 7 days a week in October, November, January, February, March and early parts of April and December. It runs 9-1 during September (still getting enough volunteers), undergrad exam times (Dec 10 on, April 10 on) and during undergrad slack week (just before Q3 exams for 1st year!). A couple of students were involved in patrolling, and at least 3 med students used the service to help escort them home. It's also a great volunteering opportunity, takes only 2-3 hours a week (and lots of walking = exercise!). And it's a 20-25 minute walk from Masonville Gardens to med sci, depending on the building you're in. The #13 Wellington bus stops at University Hospital, and then it's about a 5 minute walk up the hill into buildings connected to the far end of Med Sci... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aneliz Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 I take the #13 bus to school from Masonville Gardens...it stops right outside.... It won't drop you at Med sci...but it will drop you outside the doors of University Hospital...which until SARS started, you could walk through to get into med sci. (the two buildings are attached) Now, you still can get off at UH but you need to walk around the edge of the Robarts building and go into either the dental or health sci building...which are both attached to med sci. Overall, it is about a 2 minute walk either way (through UH or around Robarts) to med sci. You can also take the #34 bus (Medway) which will take you to Nat sci...the disadvantage of it is that it only comes every 30 minutes (rather than every 15 like the #13) and you have to go through the subdivisions rather than straight to school...so it ultimately takes longer. If you are heading to school in the evening, you can also take the #29 Masonville bus and the #2 Dundas goes on Sundays and holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shenbleu Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Hi all.. my friend and i are considering apartments at jacksway and windermere (by considering i mean those are the only 2 viable options for us at this point) I've seen neither, and she's seen windermere only. (i'm out in BC till next week) Apparently the windermere apartment is pretty swanky, and only 4 are left. However, it seems to me that buses don't go along windermere too frequently, and not at all after 7pm. Am I right about this? I'd love to take the apartment but don't want to spend half my waking hours waiting for the bus for school/groceries. At the same time, does anyone have anything to say about jacksway? It seems like a more convenient option, though a BIT more pricey. Danka! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest therealcrackers Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Jacksway (aka Masonville Gardens) seems to be THE place for med students at Western this year. (And as a house renter with a couple of empty rooms to fill...sigh) It's next to Masonville Place mall, and the #13 bus runs regularly and frequently along that route. See the above posts for interesting details about the walk, etc. The ones on Windermere (655, 665, 675, etc? are those the ones?) are very very nice apartments, and a couple of my classmates live quite comfortably in those. It's about a 30-35 minute walk from Med Sci, and yes, the bus frequency drops dramatically after 5; I think there's one about 5:40, one at 6:10, and another about 10, and that's it. If you have a car, it's not a tremendous distance, and they are very nice apartments... but the busing issue is a significant drawback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lcloh Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 I'd say Jacksway is more convenient in terms of access to shopping and busing, for sure. As RealCrackers has pointed out, the bus frequency dies after 5 pm. It quits at 7, actually - Real Crackers - and then there's another one at 10, which is the ONE AND ONLY BUS that goes that way at around 10pm. and that bus only runs during term, not during holidays, slack week, or the month of may (which is in keeping with undergraduate bus scheudles.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shenbleu Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Hmm... masonville it is then. Any idea what heat/hydro will run for a month? I've never lived in an apartment before, but I gather it would be somewhat different from a house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aneliz Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 I live in one of the Masonville condos... What your hydro will cost you will depend on what floor/side of the building you are on... As an example: 4th (top) floor, facing south - we didn't use the heat at all in the winter...we just sucked the rising hot air off of the rest of the building - hydro cost ~$40/month all winter...sounds good but...in the summer, you have to run the A/C all of the time or you will probably die of heat stroke....so summer hydro is ~$125/month. 1st floor (bottom and half underground) (inhabited by someone that I know) used lots of heat in the winter because it is freezing down there....average hydro bill is ~$125 in the winter....but they don't use the A/C at all...so summer hydro is ~$35 month... I imagine that the middle floors are somewhere in the middle in terms of cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lcloh Posted July 15, 2003 Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 I think what aneliz forgot to add was that if you run the both the heater in winter and the A/C in summer throughout the year, your bill will be $125. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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