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Toronto millionaires can’t seem to catch a break.

Shirley and Todd Ankenmann, a couple in the city’s neighbourhood of Bloor West Village, say their million-dollar dream home just isn’t the same since the electric utility installed a power pole in front of the house and ruined the view.

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So what is to be done?

“I don’t look out the window anymore,” Shirley told CityNews Toronto for a segment that aired Wednesday. “It’s heartbreaking. It’s ugly.”

The pole was put up in December by Toronto Hydro, about a year after the utility warned residents that such a pole could be installed. Nevertheless, Todd told the TV station: “We didn’t know until they showed up with the pole. We literally had no clue.”

The Ankenmanns, who bought their house more than three years ago, would like the city to move the pole six feet over so it’s situated between their property and the adjacent one, but Toronto Hydro says that’s difficult to do for safety and technical reasons.