What's happening to Montreal stores??

I love Montreal. Living here is not always the best politically but it's such an eclectic and interesting city. We have amazing restaurants of cooking from all over the world and the shopping is just as varied and boy do I love shopping. But it's not as varied as it used to be. 3 of my favourite clothing stores closed in just this past year and I don't understand it. Is it competition from ebay and a shitty economy? It does seem that the internet takes business away especially from specialty clothing stores. I admit I do just that for goth clothing and shoes. If there's a better price on ebay I'll just buy from there than our local best goth store Cruella. It recently closed and it's been open over 20 years! I used to go there when I was 13 and regularly since then. It's a big part of my growing up and now it's gone. Another store I went to all the time especially in my teens was Labyrinth, a clothing store for band shirts and assorted punk style trinkets. Now I can't browse a store in person for a band shirt I might like. I got so many there, Dream Theater, Rage Against the Machine, Children of Bodom, Deftones and most recently Dethklok and probably more. The third store I miss is Betsey Johnson. It was right on St.Catherine's and it was so much fun to peruse beautiful dresses, some costing 500$ and up. I loved Betsey's style, kinda punk but very girly and bright. I got 4 dresses from there, some of them are my favourites in my closet. Again, I can buy her dresses online but it's just not the same as looking through the store, feeling them in my hands and having fun looking at them all. Oh well, all I can do is hope more interesting stores will open and focus on my last exam tomorrow. Then I'll be free and done my first year back in school after years of mental illness torture!

Here's my fav Betsey Johnson dress. You can still see my hospital bracelet! I was still in the psych ward out on a pass, soon to go to rehab I think.

school school school

Ugh I'm STILL catching up in school since being in the hospital. I have almost no time for anything else these days. At least I got A+ in two intro to psychology midterms though! So, finally no more psych midterms but now I have so much math to do. And I didn't even have time to write anything about Easter! Or better put, Ressurection Day. I guess I'll have to do that later...