I'm with Jake. Even though I'm in Canada, online deals tend to be better than in shop. I'm a 9 in 170X skates. Eyeing the Trues (TF9 or TF7, I hear some people go up half a size?
You often read people's comments "well I'm a 10 shoe so I wear 8 1/2 skates". It doesn't always work like that and the translation doesn't work for all brands the same. I wear 11 shoes but my skates are 9s, a big gap but the fit is perfect, no toe bumping or scraping inside the shell.