Complete muddle over where to live
#17
Re: Complete muddle over where to live
There was an outhouse. This one looks in better shape.
Using the torch to find your way there through the trees after dark was no fun.
I remember it was a long drop below.
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Re: Complete muddle over where to live
except when you have to go outside & do your business or whatever it is you do in your line of work. Driving around in the dead of winter, stuck in the snow drifts, having fender benders, trying to park... its unimaginable to park several blocks or a few side streets away from doing that work.
Same in the hot humid 30C +high humid summer months.
Canada, especially Toronto or within the GTA is a lovely place to live & work
Same in the hot humid 30C +high humid summer months.
Canada, especially Toronto or within the GTA is a lovely place to live & work
#19
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On Sunday morning there are horses and carts. They're slow but I tend not to go to the office on Sunday mornings. Of course, it's not the office in Toronto that I'm talking about; the market is 90 minutes from here so the office would be 100 or so (on a Saturday morning).
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anyhoo, in an effort to get this thread back on track. To the OP, there are areas of Oakville that would meet your criteria, you could walk to the main street for shopping and coffee shops (although Oakville's main street is more of a stroll and browse kind of a place rather than a pick up your family groceries place). There are parks for dog walking and safe streets for bike riding, however that area is expensive. Once you move away from that part you do get into more 'house after house' type neighbourhoods that you describe. Although many of these have trails running through them (you don't always see these from the road but they make for some lovely walks) and local shopping plazas that often have a coffee shop, but its not the same as a traditional high street.
I don't know anything about the options to the East of Toronto. The other place to the West with a considerably shorter commute that springs to mind is Bloor West Village. It has as traditional a High Street as you are likely to find, a large park not far away but the houses are generally older and quite close together on relatively narrow streets.
I don't know anything about the options to the East of Toronto. The other place to the West with a considerably shorter commute that springs to mind is Bloor West Village. It has as traditional a High Street as you are likely to find, a large park not far away but the houses are generally older and quite close together on relatively narrow streets.
#21
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anyhoo, in an effort to get this thread back on track. To the OP, there are areas of Oakville that would meet your criteria, you could walk to the main street for shopping and coffee shops (although Oakville's main street is more of a stroll and browse kind of a place rather than a pick up your family groceries place).
That's why I threw in Newmarket (and why not include Ancaster, Stouffville, Bradford or Barrie), all for the reason folks in this part of the country seem to accept a one-hour commute [on a good day] as the norm in either direction
You may find folks who live in the Beaches or the Eastern burbs who work not just in Toronto, commute to one of Oshawa, Oakville, Mississauga, Richmond Hill, even Newmarket.... its one of the daft things of living in Canada.
Just saying...
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On that point, my first post response to the OP was to show places other than the east-west corridor commute either along the lakeshore, or the 401 from Milton to Scarborough, Pickering or the other way round.
That's why I threw in Newmarket (and why not include Ancaster, Stouffville, Bradford or Barrie), all for the reason folks in this part of the country seem to accept a one-hour commute [on a good day] as the norm in either direction
That's why I threw in Newmarket (and why not include Ancaster, Stouffville, Bradford or Barrie), all for the reason folks in this part of the country seem to accept a one-hour commute [on a good day] as the norm in either direction
Ms. Gerchikov's comments on Bloor West Village apply to the Beach (and the Danforth) as well. The good streets have lovely old houses not very far apart with drafty windows and leaky basements. The bad ones are in a squalid housing project built recently on a former race track where, as is usual for Canada, the streets are named for the thing bulldozed in order to throw it up. Northern Dancer is the name of one such street. The Beach has the added snag of being an anglo-Irish ghetto, you may as well move to West Hendon.
Leslieville is an old working class neighbourhood so the houses were once tiny but have been yuppified by bringing the karzi indoors and adding decks on every floor. It's common for houses there to have the bathroom tacked on behind the kitchen. I liked living there because it's the end of the line for many trams, going farther means catching specific ones, but mainly because it was cheap. It aint cheap no more.
not2old is right about the number of reverse commuters. I read somewhere that as many people commute out as in. From the Beach I mostly worked out of town so that meant lots of trips to the airport (difficult) but I also commuted to someplace up the DVP past the 401 (very slow), Ottawa (ok once you get to the 401), Guelph (awful most of the way, nearly impossible coming back when there was a sporting thing at the SkyDome), High Park (awful, a very smelly drive) and downtown. I would not live in the Beach if I didn't work there or downtown.
Last edited by dbd33; Jul 5th 2015 at 8:19 pm.
#23
Re: Complete muddle over where to live
The OP may find the interactive map of Toronto useful
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/co...0071d60f89RCRD
as well as other related information
toronto.ca | Official website for the City of Toronto
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/co...0071d60f89RCRD
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/co...0071d60f89RCRD
as well as other related information
toronto.ca | Official website for the City of Toronto
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/co...0071d60f89RCRD
#24
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Hey there,
Thanks for the thoughts :thumb up:
We have decided to look further afield to Aurora and Newmarket. A 1hr commute is fine (husband has managed that and further just fine in the past).
Any thoughts on these areas?
Linz x
I'm getting rather excited now! 6 weeks till we move!
Thanks for the thoughts :thumb up:
We have decided to look further afield to Aurora and Newmarket. A 1hr commute is fine (husband has managed that and further just fine in the past).
Any thoughts on these areas?
Linz x
I'm getting rather excited now! 6 weeks till we move!
#25
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Check out SW Scarborough neighbourhoods close to the lake. Specifically:
Birchcliff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Cliff
Cliffside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffside,_Toronto
Cliffcrrest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffcrest
All commutable. all reasonably close to amenities but much more quiet suburban than the beaches, a high proportion of anglos + irish in the area, and best of all fantastic value because of the Scarborough stigma.
Birchcliff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Cliff
Cliffside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffside,_Toronto
Cliffcrrest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffcrest
All commutable. all reasonably close to amenities but much more quiet suburban than the beaches, a high proportion of anglos + irish in the area, and best of all fantastic value because of the Scarborough stigma.
Hey there,
Thanks for the thoughts :thumb up:
We have decided to look further afield to Aurora and Newmarket. A 1hr commute is fine (husband has managed that and further just fine in the past).
Any thoughts on these areas?
Linz x
I'm getting rather excited now! 6 weeks till we move!
Thanks for the thoughts :thumb up:
We have decided to look further afield to Aurora and Newmarket. A 1hr commute is fine (husband has managed that and further just fine in the past).
Any thoughts on these areas?
Linz x
I'm getting rather excited now! 6 weeks till we move!
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#27
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OK, so for my earlier post, leaving the house to getting to work for those coming in from Oakville, Pickering or Newmarket, without delays, heart pacing runs, allow one hour commute ... is that OK?
40 minutes from leaving the house in the Beaches to union station, as long as there are zero breakdowns or delays on the TTC
40 minutes from leaving the house in the Beaches to union station, as long as there are zero breakdowns or delays on the TTC
If you can afford a house just south of Kingston Rd but at the top of the hill it would only be 5 to 10 minutes to scurry over on foot.
Other than that the OP really is down to living near the lake in either Oakville, Burlington or Port Credit.
West is best and all that.........
Last edited by JamesM; Jul 6th 2015 at 6:19 pm.
#28
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West is the same but more expensive- there fixed it for you
The three "cliff" neighbourhoods are all accessible to GO via Scarborough GO, one stop further out from the Danforth, though from Birchcliff you'd be more likely to bus up to Vic Park Subway. I do, anyhow.
The three "cliff" neighbourhoods are all accessible to GO via Scarborough GO, one stop further out from the Danforth, though from Birchcliff you'd be more likely to bus up to Vic Park Subway. I do, anyhow.
There is a Go Train that is near Danfoth and Main or 'Upper Beaches" as it is now known.
If you can afford a house just south of Kingston Rd but at the top of the hill it would only be 5 to 10 minutes to scurry over on foot.
Other than that the OP really is down to living near the lake in either Oakville, Burlington or Port Credit.
West is best and all that.........
If you can afford a house just south of Kingston Rd but at the top of the hill it would only be 5 to 10 minutes to scurry over on foot.
Other than that the OP really is down to living near the lake in either Oakville, Burlington or Port Credit.
West is best and all that.........
#29
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Plus most importantly there are a number of good pubs in the area. yes, a number, plural.
Many a BE poster would be glad of one decent option!
Many a BE poster would be glad of one decent option!