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Old Feb 23rd 2014, 10:43 pm
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Would value your opinions on Mississauga & surrounding areas please. My OH is looking to transfer intra-company to Mississauga. We are currently planning our move, but with 2 young children, we are anxious to choose a decent area with good schools. We'll be renting for at least 12 months, ( I reckon approx $2000/month approx), but not sure where to start??

Any advice would be appreciated, I thought Brampton looked very affordable, but have read conflicting reports about it. Also, don't want to spend our lives commuting! We currently live in Manchester in the UK & spend 2hrs /day commuting 14 miles to work.
Thanks in advance!
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Old Feb 23rd 2014, 10:45 pm
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It's a very industrial and busy area
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Is the W13 a coincidence?

If so, go to www.mls.ca., select "residential properties". It'll ask, "where do you want to look?" Enter W13 and you'll see houses for sale in the good bit of Mississauga!
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It's a very industrial and busy area
Mississauga or Brampton?
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Originally Posted by Howefamily
It's a very industrial and busy area
If that's a reference to Brampton then, yes, it's just like Slough (ethnically as well as architecturally). Mississauga however is only like that north of the QEW, south of the highway it's an old style suburb, like the one depicted in American Beauty.
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I was there for work and just saw the busy side by the airport, good luck in your search
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depends where you are working ,oakville ,burlington are good and have good train links into toronto....
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sorry forgot to say oakville ,burlington ,and hamilton -no direct access via train yet all have a very british feel ,hope this helps....
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Georgetown is a nice smaller town. I lived there and worked in the Erin mills/QE2 location.

The travel to work took about the same time as a drive from Burlington to Mississauga.
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Originally Posted by stu1972hamilton
sorry forgot to say oakville ,burlington ,and hamilton -no direct access via train yet all have a very british feel ,hope this helps....
But they do have direct access by train, the Lakeshore line connects them all. Whether or not that's any good to the OP depends on the location of the job, if it's accessible from the Lakeshore then there's also the option to live in Toronto. Chances are though that it's north, especially considering the reference to Brampton, in that case the train is no help.
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[QUOTE=dbd33;11144750]If that's a reference to Brampton then, yes, it's just like Slough (ethnically as well as architecturally). Mississauga however is only like that north of the QEW, south of the highway it's an old style suburb, like the one depicted in American Beauty.[/QUOTE]

That I did not know (thought Miss. was all cookie cutter). Any comments to share on Milton (not the poet)...?
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Originally Posted by stu1972hamilton
yet all have a very british feel ,hope this helps....
They do?
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Originally Posted by dbd33
If that's a reference to Brampton then, yes, it's just like Slough (ethnically as well as architecturally). Mississauga however is only like that north of the QEW, south of the highway it's an old style suburb, like the one depicted in American Beauty.[/QUOTE]

That I did not know (thought Miss. was all cookie cutter). Any comments to share on Milton (not the poet)...?
Halton region (Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Georgetown) has a target to double it's 2001 population by 2031. 50% of that growth is scheduled to be in Milton. I like areas of Milton, particularly some of the more rural areas, the trick is making sure you know which areas are going to stay rural!

To the OP, Mississauga has some lovely areas (as dbd33 mentioned they are generally south of the QEW), but they can be very expensive, and some distinctly unlovely areas as alluded to by Howefamily.
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That I did not know (thought Miss. was all cookie cutter). Any comments to share on Milton (not the poet)...?
Milton looks dreadful to me. It's a mixture of housing projects and outlet malls poorly served by public transit. I'd choose Brampton over Milton, Brampton's ugly and English is barely spoken but at least there's curry to be had in Brampton.

I used to live in w13. It's since been largely McMansioned. My ex sold the, perfectly surviceable, house for demolition a couple of years ago but my former neighbour is still there, proudly lowering the tone in his nice bungalow sitting in appropriate proportion with his large lot.
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Originally Posted by Jennyw13
Hi All
Would value your opinions on Mississauga & surrounding areas please. My OH is looking to transfer intra-company to Mississauga. We are currently planning our move, but with 2 young children, we are anxious to choose a decent area with good schools. We'll be renting for at least 12 months, ( I reckon approx $2000/month approx), but not sure where to start??

Any advice would be appreciated, I thought Brampton looked very affordable, but have read conflicting reports about it. Also, don't want to spend our lives commuting! We currently live in Manchester in the UK & spend 2hrs /day commuting 14 miles to work.
Thanks in advance!
Jenny

Where in Mississauga will he be working? Knowing that (an address or nearest intersection) would make it easier to recommend areas as Mississauga is quite big.

As for Brampton, I live there and it is fine.

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