Ross of OttawaHearing that abandoned #Montreal churches are being converted to #pickleball courts.
Seems like a good repurposing idea, and possible origin story for the Cult of the Great Pickle.
"All hail the Great Pickle, may you touch his garlicky barnacles."
Sabine
Earsmeardius@ottaross Missed opportunity to repurpose as Italian restaurants.
@earsmeardius Also a good solution. Creating followers of noodly goodness.
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦@ottaross And another reason Montréal is on our list of possible retirement bases.
Stéphanie@stephanie Well some of it is just the creativity of what to do with old unused churches and that there are enough unused churches to repurpose. As yet I have not played pickle ball.
Previous factors adding to the list is that I went to uni there and fell in love with the city and the fact that Dieu du Ciel, one of the single best breweries in Canada, is there. :)
John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️@stephanie @Chigaze @ottaross I have a vision of pickleball players relaxing on the alter after the match, drinking excellent beer and crunching through a bag of those host crisps Stephanie posted a few days ago. A guest priest, who is also a retired pickleball pro, delivers a non-canon morality sermon & club pep rally using pickleball concepts.
@johnefrancis @Chigaze @ottaross lmao this is awesome
I do hope the politics will get better before my retirement, I'd really like to move back. Maybe it'll be a country at that point 🙄
@stephanie I think we’re safe there as while separatism has more support in Québec than in Alberta it’s far lower than the early nineties when I was there.
@Chigaze @johnefrancis @ottaross I don't think the referendum will pass, but the next government will almost certainly be the separatist anti-woke party, so we'll see how it goes :|
@stephanie @Chigaze @ottaross this better not actually come to pass, my beard is strictly non-prophet, I don't want to end up trapped in stained glass.
@Chigaze It's such a great city. I'd probably live there too if it weren't for the provincial government.
@ottaross I’m in Alberta so…
(I’ll note that Ontario has really amped up it’s crazy government game lately)
@Chigaze oh yeah, good point. They might not be such an outlier anymore.
The tax levels are so high, and feed into a lot of waste – not so far off the Ab and On taxes to corruption and cronyism though.
Then the language laws, and fake-secularism laws are pretty frustrating to see though.
bjb 
ikeacurtains@ottaross pickleball already has a reputation for being loud. Can you imagine that noise amplified by the echoes of a church? 🙉
@ikeacurtains You'd hope they'd add some soft sound-absorbing structures in there. Would be pretty uncomfortable otherwise.
@ottaross keyword: hope. 😆
Pinchy63 🇨🇦@ottaross
Housing anyone? How about a homeless shelter instead? I guess repurposing for pickleball is better than tearing them down.
Housing anyone? How about a homeless shelter instead? I guess repurposing for pickleball is better than tearing them down.
@Pinchy63 Yeah, if only there were governments willing to move that way, and neighbourhoods that wouldn't NIMBY them away.
Sounds like pickleball is pretty lucrative these days if it's able to drive private capital.
Andre Nantel@ottaross The town of Magog, in Southern Quebec, converted part of its huge, abandonned, textile factory into a pickleball center. The local club has hundreds of members and a larger waiting list. Lots of active retirees here.
@nantel It's amazing how big it has become.
We have a local two-storey Canadian Tire that got turned into a pickleball (plus other gym stuff) centre, and I see the parkinglot is packed everytime I drive past. CdnTire used was never so busy other than around Xmas.