kateinnes

Can somebody please give me some advice,

My Family and i are relocating to Toronto from the uk in october. We wish to buy some land, or house with land outside of the area but have no idea where would be the cheapest place to do this as we dont wish to live in the city. We do not mind travelling up to 2 hours each way to and from work to make our dreams come true. Any advice would be really appreciated, We have decided to rent for a while so if You have any idea of areas for cheap renting would be a great help to us.

I hope i have posted this right as it is the first time i have ever used a forum, but im at my wits end at where to begin so any advice would be wonderful!!!

many thanks

kate

christmasoompa

You certainly have posted it in the right place! Not a clue about land near Toronto, but hopefully some of our lovely members in the area will be along shortly to help.

Welcome to the forum.

kateinnes

Thankyou

furries

I would certainly be interested in responses to this one - we are moving to Toronto area in August and will also be looking for a house outside the city ... perhaps a bit closer than 2 hours ... perhaps 1 hr - 1 1/2hrs by public transport preferably ... somewhere with a rural feel and plenty of space ... so not able to help - but definitely interested in what comes up in response!!

canmoreskier

Have a look at mls (http://www.mls.ca) and select an area from the map. You can narrow searches by size of property, cost, number of bedrooms etc. and with/without land (acreages).

Novocastrian

Georgetown springs to mind. It's just over an hour by GO transit (to Union). If you were working within walking distance from there it might be bearable. But basically I think your parameters are unrealistic.

dbd33 will suggest Guelph.

Novocastrian

Where will you be working?

christmasoompa

Canmoreskier - please be patient! Your posts were just automatically put in to the mod queue as you are a newbie and they contained a link. It's an anti-spam measure, and often takes us a while to approve them.

canmoreskier

As I'm not a doctor, I don't seem to have any patients!

dbd33

Guelph? Two hours by transit and no serious land available. I see merit in Guelph but it's not at all a fit with this requirement. A few cheap acres outside Guelph means 20 minutes to the bus from Guelph, then two hours to Toronto, then whatever trip is required at the other end.

As Novo knows, until recently I had some land, enough for horses and whatnot, commutable to Toronto but there were a lot of snags with that, not least that land and transit are incompatible. If you're willing to commute two hours each way by car then a house and 10 acres or less north of Orangeville can be had for a little over $300,000. In other directions the same is sometimes available on the escarpment above Stoney Creek to the west or around Newcastle to the east. If the budget is more in the order of $1,000,000 then around Aurora or Caledon are possibilities.

Note that, if you go north, especially north of highway 89, you can add fifteen hours or so of snow movement, for five months a year, to your 20 hours a week in the car.

Oh, and you can't work from home, out there access to the internet is more a theoretical possibility than a practical facility.

Novocastrian

<decides to let the newbie live a while longer>

Novocastrian

...or possibly he won't suggest Guelph.

dbd33

Besides, the OP has not said she's a lesbian naturopath, a tattoo artist nor an operator of mechanical bulls, what would she do for a job in Guelph?

Novocastrian

Oh, I don't know. Fishmonger?

dbd33

That we need, please to be bringing ocean too.