Maple Ave Condos (Ottawa)

You walk out onto Maple Avenue and there's the hum of a real neighborhood—grocery stores within a few minutes on foot, a restaurant around the corner, coffee if you need it before nine. This is what it looks like when someone actually thought through proximity instead of just zoning it and calling it done. You're close enough to everything that car keys aren't mandatory for Tuesday errands, but far enough from the noise and bustle that you're not living above a storefront either. It's the kind of balance that sounds simple until you've lived in a dozen places where it isn't.