moving in january and looking to chat with people from the area

is there no one in Barrie then??? seems i'm moving to a non british expats ghost town

Is There Any LFC supporters out there? or people into the music scene? we went in july and they seemed to be quite into music and the live band scene

Hi soundgrounder

We will be living in wasaga beach which is about 3/4hr away from where you are welcome to the forum

steve

http://www.thornbury.net/

About one hour North of barrie, 30 minutes from Wasaga, one step from Heaven.

Barrie is a bustling, growiung city, many opportunities for low cost housing in smaller communities around it.

You had better like Snow.

also in Wasaga Beach, but Steve is obviously out of the driving Miss Daisy school, Barrie is 30 mins away. Also a Liverpool supporter. We were originally going to settle in Barrie but Wasaga Beach was more appealing for us. I can recommend a great Realtor in Barrie.

Chris

HAHA very funny , and i won't hold it against you that you are a liverpool supporter everyone has flaws LOL

steve

Steve, bring you snow boots...was snowing all of yesterday but only got just over an inch. They were forecasting 10-20cm, someone clearly nicked the extra. Had to go to Barrie in the middle of the night due to an emergency with our dog and they looked to have it a bit worse there. Mind you the other week we had a like dusting here and Barrie got dumped with about 5 inches, the 400 was carnage.

Chris

many thanks we visited wasaga on our last trip over in july we opted for barrie as wasaga seemed little bit quite but very very nice i guess especially in the summer, what made you settle on wasaga?

nice one about LFC is there any other local meeting places/fan clubs re Liverpool ?

would love to hear more from you

ta

Damm Kids stealing the extra, we saw collingwood was -11 this morning, oh and you know you offered to do anything that we needed, can you shovel the drive for me LOL

steve

There is a massive Liverpool supporters club in Toronto, ex players make regular appearances i believe.

I work from home via the internet therefore location isn't a problem for us. Value for money you get a boatload more in Wasaga, plus it is growing the plans for here are huge, the summer equivalent of Collingwood. Which was another attraction, to have the beach here but Collingwood 15km's away means the best of both worlds. Barrie just seemed too industrialised in a lot of parts to me, and it was development after development of identical houses with small lots.

This is the development where my family, plus KatyM and CanadaBound have brought. www.democrathomes.ca , Wasaga Sands.

Steve. yeah guess again!!

All the best

Chris

cheers Steve , so i guess theres a strong wasaga contigent out there tell me what i'm missing about wasaga? it does seem lovely but are there decent job ops in that area etc??

What line of work are you in? Also Andy (Canadabound) lives here and commutes to the GTA daily. Quality of life and all, have a look at property prices here, it will surprise you. They recently opened a Wallmart, Canadian Tire, Marks Work in town, plans going in for a big hotel development on beach 1. More stores in the pipeline, plus plenty of job opportunities in Barrie. To do a test drive round a load of developments in Barrie and then drive around Wasaga and see what pace of life you prefer, thats what we did and Wasaga won hands down.

If you want to read about our journey and why we are in Wasaga read my website the link should be in the signature.


Chris

both me and my wife are presently in banking jobs me an assistant manager my wife as a personal banker our son is thinking of applying to the OPP after we arrive

so tell me a bit more about collingwood we have never ventured out to there

collingwood is a nice town, used to have ship yard, now closed, it is now changing to a tourist town, good ski hills there, we found though that house prices were more expensive for what you got thats why we chose the beach (OH was born in collingwood),

I have just been told by other half looks like i put 3 - 4hours to barrie i meant 45mins

steve

PS chris you did say anything