Lucymay

Hello all! My husband has been offered a job in Mississauga. From what I can tell from my limited research (I'm not very computer literate!) it's fairly build up city like area, my husband is happy to commute into Mississauga (45 mins max) can anyone recommend areas that are a little more rural to live. Many thanks

dbd33

Mississauga is technically a city but is, in fact, suburban Toronto. Where in Mississauga, roughly, is the job (Mississauga is big and has lots of traffic, 45 minutes from southeastern Mississauga is still Mississauga)? How rural do you want?

Lucymay

Hi I had thought as much! We are currently 30 miles from London and it is very rural here, ideally we would like somewhere with land. The jobs office is on Brunel Road but my husband is a field engineer he will be travelling all over Mississauga to different jobs. Thank you for your reply

dbd33

We're on 10 acres between Grand Valley and Arthur so perhaps the size of property you're looking for but a bit too far away. Even if the 45 minutes is an estate agent's 45 minutes Erin, Halton Hills, Milton is about as far as it'll stretch. Any of those would offer a rural location by SE of England standards. You could also look north, up the 410, but Brampton is a commuter suburb and you need to get past there so traffic/commute times would be an issue. Maybe put "Georgetown" into www.realtor.ca and zoom out from there?

Be aware that rural here is more rural than there. It's not one bus a day but no busses ever and a need to clear snow before driving off. Also note that, as everywhere else, proximity to the city, Toronto, adds to the price of properties.

HGerchikov

We have 30 acres between Guelph and Erin, so definitely rural. I tend to allow an hour to go anywhere in the western GTA and I am usually pretty close. It takes an hour to get to the QEW in Burlington, same for Oakville and about an hour to both the airport and the Hershey Centre (which is near to your husbands work). Most of the hour is pretty nice driving though (will be less nice in the winter). As dbd33 mentioned, it can be be 45 mins from one side of Mississauga to the other, especially in rush hour.

Lucymay

Thank you both, that's really helpful! � ����

BristolUK

How many football pitches is that?

HGerchikov

I think a football pitch is about 2.5 acres. We have 33 acres so about 13. It would be rough playing though as most of ours is covered in trees, either planted nursery types for sale or huge monsters on conservation land.

Stinkypup

It s Friday afternoon, work is slow and I will beat Bristol to it

Hurlabrick

You need to define what you mean by rural. VERY different meanings between UK and Canada. Mississauga is a city by British terms although a suburb by Toronto standards.

Surbiton it aint!!

dbd33

Mississauga would not be a city if it were in the UK. It's not a place, there's no centre, no cathedral, no there there, it's just more buildings on the left side of Toronto. I suppose if Milton Keynes was moved to join on to Hounslow that'd be comparable.

"Rural" as I understand it, means mostly fields or woods, not a lot of buildings. That's the same, the difference is the size of the fields and the level of services available. You don't have rural properties here with mains water or sewers. Dustbins typically have to be hauled to the dump. The power supply is erratic. But, enough land for some basic animals is a lot more feasible here than it is in most of the UK.

On arrival an apartment near work is the thing to have. A place from which to explore that doesn't require buying all sorts of equipment. Someone bent on a rural location might rent an apartment in a small place, Erin for example, so as to get a measure of commuting and whatnot without being committed.

Vinny17

If you want "rural" outside of Mississauga, have a look northwest at Georgetown, Acton, Erin and parts that way. Or if you consider suburban, Oakville, Burlington and last resort Milton. Mississauga is maybe 800,000 people, right next to Toronto. Oakville and Burlington are ~175,000. Georgetown about ~50,000

HGerchikov

We are slightly more civilized rural than dbd33 in as much as we do have a garbage collection, but only once a fortnight. The erratic power supply is a pain as the house totally shuts down, can't get any water because the well pump doesn't work and best not to think about what happens when the sewage ejector is out of service.

dbd33

We are slightly more civilized rural than HGerchikov in not requiring a "sewage ejector". I hope that's somehow related to below grade toilets rather than something designed to allow one to poop in the passenger seat of one's Aston Martin.

We have a generator but it's the $3,000 solution, not the $8,000 one, so someone has to be home to start it up and to refill the petrol tank daily.

HGerchikov

Actually it's only one bathroom, and that is in the basement. If I remember correctly you are the one speeding around the countryside in a convertible. I drive a truck - no Aston Martins here (sadly, though it might be a challenge on the gravel road).
We went generator shopping last weekend. Probably heading for the $3k route ourselves.