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Would you like to hear what a Saint-Magloire resident has to say about the quality of life here?
Need an objective, yet subjective, unbiased and realistic look at the village of Saint-Magloire?
Are you asking yourself the following questions?
In the end, you’ll know EVERYTHING about Saint-Magloire. Whether it’s about the environment, the weather, the mayor, the municipal council, the new director (because yes, unfortunately Dany Robert, whom I liked very much for her human side, has left us), or the residents, you’ll have everything you need to make a decision.
6 years ago, I would have liked to have been guided in this way before making my decision to move to Saint-Magloire. Moving to a new region and choosing the municipality of Saint-Magloire as your new home involves a number of key aspects to consider before making a final decision.
Let me introduce you to Michael, the angel of Saint-Magloire, who will guide you to the Mont Bonnet cross, if that is your destiny.
Michael, the angel of Saint-Magloire, is here to help you with your move and your integration into Saint-Magloire, if you feel ready to take the plunge!
As far as I’m concerned, my role is to share my experience of Saint-Magloire with you, to help you make the right decision.
I can only talk about country life in Saint-Magloire, as I’m a Magloroise. Regional living in a small village can be a very different experience in a village other than Saint-Magloire, but as far as I’m concerned, I can only speak of my own experience, within the municipality of Saint-Magloire.
See Mont Bonnet and its cross.
Given that I’m not a native of this tiny alpine village nestled atop the mountains, at an altitude of over 700 metres, it’s easy for me to deliver this unbiased portrayal, taking a certain distance in my analysis of Saint-Magloire, because I’m first and foremost a Quebecker, and proud of it, since I’m a native of Quebec City, having lived there practically all my life. So I wouldn’t be impartial when talking about Quebec City, since I was born there. For me, Quebec City is the most beautiful city in the world. It’s important to specify that my world stops at the cities I’ve visited. The same phenomenon can be observed among Maglorois de souche (natives of this part of the country), since for them, Saint-Magloire is the most beautiful village in existence. In short, there’s no neutrality, but rather an obvious bias, like mine, for Quebec City.
I’m also a Magloroise, having lived in Saint-Magloire for 6 years. However, I identify with the values of Quebecers in Quebec City, the capital. I carry this city in my heart, a city that is open to the world. Like the city of my birth, I’m an open-minded person, because I’ve had the chance to broaden my horizons by living in a city of 550,000 inhabitants.
I think that’s what I want to bring to Saint-Magloire… that this village opens up to the world. I want people from all over Quebec to come and live in this beautiful village, so that they can rub shoulders with more people who don’t fit the model they’re used to seeing, i.e. Caucasian (white), heterosexual, French-speaking, Catholic men and women.
So I have a fresh perspective on the village of Saint-Magloire, since I first laid eyes on its magnificent landscapes as an outsider from the city, a étrange, as many native Maglorois refer to us. You should know that for the moment, from what I’ve understood of Maglorois natives of Saint-Magloire, we strangers remain strangers forever, even if we’ve lived in the village for decades.
Yes, I admit, the expression « les étranges » is rather pejorative, but go and explain to someone who has never lived anywhere other than in his village, whose horizon stops at 700 inhabitants, why it’s wrong to use such a narrow-minded appellation.
It’s important to point out that not all Maglorois born in Saint-Magloire have this negative label of « strange » attached to new arrivals. There are some who are open-minded and even happy to welcome newcomers, but unfortunately, it’s always the haters who sully the image of dynamic, forward-looking Maglorois.
Usually, Maglorois who are open to newcomers haven’t lived solely in Saint-Magloire. Their horizons haven’t remained fixed at 700 villagers all their lives. They know what it’s like to be open to the world.
Maglorois de souche, who are closed to change, are often the ones who are prejudiced against city dwellers. They seem to suffer from an inferiority complex in relation to city folk, believing that all city folk are condescending people who look down on people from the region.
Hey, people! Don’t put all urbanites in the same basket!
There are humble people from the cities who don’t suffer from a superiority complex towards regional people, and who believe they can learn new things from regional people. Equally, there are open-minded locals who want to learn more about outside-the-box processes that city folk can bring them.
For my part, I believe there are competent, interesting and visionary people who come from the regions, as well as the cities, and it’s these people I’m going to focus on on this regional living website.
I like to focus my attention on open-minded people, not on bitter, envious, unhealthy people on an ego trip. I keep such people at a distance because I don’t have the time or energy to waste on their resentment, which makes them act inhumanely, stupidly and ridiculously.
The funny thing is that when there are more strangers than natives in Saint-Magloire, which will happen sooner or later if the village continues to evolve by welcoming more and more newcomers, the municipality will become a village of strangers, won’t it? And since we foreigners will outnumber those born in Saint-Magloire, will it be up to us to call the native Maglorois strange? For it will be the Maglorois born in Saint-Magloire who will be considered out of the ordinary, rarely seen in the streets and in the minority in the village…I can already tell you that this expression of strange will die out by itself the day you are in the minority, because it will never be maintained by former townspeople who have been stigmatized by this corny expression…in other words, outdated, or old-fashioned, if you prefer.
I think at that point I’ll change the logo on the website habiter en région to an alien face with a UFO as a transport vehicle, because in the end, isn’t that the most beautiful representation of a strange person?
Have you ever seen strangers in Saint-Magloire? Yes, Monsieur! The streets are full of them, and you can even see them flying over Mont Bonnet, if you’re not in bed by 7 p.m., of course. Stay up until 10 p.m., and you’ll sometimes see them flying over Mont Bonnet, without a permit to circulate on the territory.
There are native Maglorois who don’t like the idea of more and more strangers arriving in their village, because they’re afraid of change and evolution. Hey, people! Think about it for a second… With a $600 increase in taxes for 2024, you’re going to have to work on that backward mentality, because it’s the new arrivals who are allowing you to share in the staggering tax increase in Saint-Magloire. Perhaps you should begin to consider that it’s those you consider outsiders who allow your village to continue to exist, and that since they pay as much in taxes as you do, they have a right to respect.
Seriously, do you think you’re capable of taking on such a gigantic tax increase for just 700 residents without disastrous consequences? If there were 2,000 Maglorois, or at least double that number, 1,500, whether or not they were born in Saint-Magloire, it wouldn’t be so hard on the wallet:
Aqueduct and sewer taxes will increase considerably, since an analysis of previous budgets « revealed that the amount taxed did not at all cover the amount of expenses budgeted, let alone contingencies », so that there is « a little over $41,000 shortfall just for drinking water that must be recouped in 2024 », according to General Manager Stéphanie Lamontagne.
As for wastewater, according to the general manager, a total of $59,000 should have been taxed in 2023 but was not, and will therefore have to be recovered in 2024 from the owners served. Source: Saint-Magloire tax increase
My answer is that I don’t know about each question, because I was told that I should have been present at the meeting, but I was working. So I didn’t get an answer to the above questions.
All I know about this tax increase is that I fell out of my chair when I discovered that it wasn’t a typing error by Saint-Magloire’sadministrative assistant… There wasn’t an extra zero, it wasn’t a $60 tax increase but a $600 increase… Yeah, yeah! It stings the eyes, doesn’t it?!
I’d like someone to explain it to me so I can write something that’s accurate about what would justify this $600 tax increase in Saint-Magloire in 2024.
It’s so sad, because I believe that before long, there will be homeowners who will no longer be able to meet their tax payments and we know very well who the losers will be in the end, certainly not the bidder who made a mistake in his calculation.
Saint-Magloire is a municipality with a large senior population.
It’s not unusual to hear the church bells ringing to say goodbye to the souls of Maglorois and Maglorois who are leaving for the great journey. At first, I found it charming to hear the church bells ring out in this way…the sound was, is and always will be sweet to my ears! But over time, we come to realize that these bells sound different to some people.
We come into contact with death on a regular basis at Saint-Magloire, and that, well, is a reality we’re reminded of when the bells ring, helping to make you more aware that life hangs by a thread.
For me, the bells are a reminder that I need to take the time to live, and not to run around like I do in the city. In the city, the sound of church bells doesn’t attract our attention, as there are so many other stimuli to focus on. So we live at a hundred thousand miles an hour, without thinking that one day it will be our turn too, and that our soul will want to leave our body, which is crying out for a rest.
Saint-Magloire is also a community of believers, or rather Catholics. I don’t know if they’re all really believers. The church is always full of people on Sundays, which is far from the case in a big city like Quebec City. That’s a good thing and I think it’s great.
That is, if they really listen to the message of Jesus Christ.
It remains to be seen whether this is the reason that attracts so many villagers to this church on Sundays. Let them look into their conscience, and they’ll find out.
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