Living in the GTA
Jul 19th 2013, 3:44 pm
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Jul 19th 2013, 3:52 pm
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Re: Living in the GTA
That being said, I have developed the habit of swearing in quebecois. That is more complicated and takes longer but it really lets you vent!
Jul 19th 2013, 6:56 pm
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Re: Living in the GTA
Rent first don't buy, that way you will know the areas better and make a more educated guess as to where to buy, it's not cheap selling a house here.
I take it then that the OP is a door to door sales man/person or a PI if traveling all over GTA for work. I would therefore recommend a place with easy access to Highway 401 :@)
I take it then that the OP is a door to door sales man/person or a PI if traveling all over GTA for work. I would therefore recommend a place with easy access to Highway 401 :@)
Jul 19th 2013, 7:08 pm
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Jul 19th 2013, 7:16 pm
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Re: Living in the GTA
Plus one.
Picking a permanent (or semi permanent) location based on the info available at this point is a hiding to nothing, and selling a place here to move elsewhere soon after buying in the wrong spot is going to cost a lot in commission.
Im just glad I dont live in the GTA <shudders> You might as well stay in the UK and have decent beer and cheese available, but each to their own.
Picking a permanent (or semi permanent) location based on the info available at this point is a hiding to nothing, and selling a place here to move elsewhere soon after buying in the wrong spot is going to cost a lot in commission.
Im just glad I dont live in the GTA <shudders> You might as well stay in the UK and have decent beer and cheese available, but each to their own.
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Jul 19th 2013, 8:23 pm
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Jul 20th 2013, 8:43 am
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Re: Living in the GTA
So you want to live north of the city, then? Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Newmarket, Aurora? You pays your money, you takes your choice.
I struggle to understand what you're asking, though. If work will take you anywhere in a semicircle around Toronto from Ajax to Mississauga, it becomes not much more than an exercise in sticking a pin in a map. What are you after: access to the lake, public transit, open space, nightlife, decent pubs, high culture? How much money do you want to spend: A few hundred grand, a couple of million?
The Toronto conurbation, as we are constantly reminded in the media, is the fourth largest urban centre in North America. It's a hugely diverse place - in ethnicity and culture, if not in infrastructure and architecture. We need a bit more to go on...
I don't know why you're concerned about elevation. Some homes in Toronto flooded last week after a particularly heavy rainstorm, but that has much more to do with overstretched and antiquated stormwater sewerage than with flood plain characteristics. If it helps, Wikipedia reckons Lake Ontario is about 74m above mean sea level, and most of Toronto and the surrounding area is a little bit higher up than that.
I struggle to understand what you're asking, though. If work will take you anywhere in a semicircle around Toronto from Ajax to Mississauga, it becomes not much more than an exercise in sticking a pin in a map. What are you after: access to the lake, public transit, open space, nightlife, decent pubs, high culture? How much money do you want to spend: A few hundred grand, a couple of million?
The Toronto conurbation, as we are constantly reminded in the media, is the fourth largest urban centre in North America. It's a hugely diverse place - in ethnicity and culture, if not in infrastructure and architecture. We need a bit more to go on...
I don't know why you're concerned about elevation. Some homes in Toronto flooded last week after a particularly heavy rainstorm, but that has much more to do with overstretched and antiquated stormwater sewerage than with flood plain characteristics. If it helps, Wikipedia reckons Lake Ontario is about 74m above mean sea level, and most of Toronto and the surrounding area is a little bit higher up than that.
Does not come up every day and as one of you said some houses flood with heavy rain.I want to get a mortgage on one of the houses that don't flood with heavy rain.As to elevation, rivers are always larger at sea/lake level than they are in the hills near their sources of course elevated sites down stream may not flood when surrounding areas do.
Does any one know any hill areas in toronto and environs???
Oakvillon, you seem to have the same location in mind as myself to allow me access to east and west.The watershed area extends north to just outside the peel and York boundaries just south of highway 9 say from orangeville to schomberg -Aurora.After that just need a big enough house detached, good family area, schools shopping etc.
Jul 20th 2013, 1:41 pm
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Re: Living in the GTA
Don't forget snow!! North of the city gets heaps of it usually.
I have often left my house in AJax and driven north toward Newmarket and hit heavy snow up there. Just something to think about? Hence why buying is a bad idea until you know the area, there are to many what ifs to make a $$$ commitment soley on the off the cuff remarks on a forum.
I have often left my house in AJax and driven north toward Newmarket and hit heavy snow up there. Just something to think about? Hence why buying is a bad idea until you know the area, there are to many what ifs to make a $$$ commitment soley on the off the cuff remarks on a forum.
Jul 20th 2013, 4:51 pm
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Ya thanks guys renting might be a good investment for the first year then???
Jul 20th 2013, 8:31 pm
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I would definitely start off renting. Consider short-term, rented, furnished accommodation month-to-month until you find your feet, explore different neighbourhoods and find something more permanent.
Jul 20th 2013, 8:40 pm
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Marylandned, that would be ideal but for a family of kids schools etc. they are also the reason I need to choose wisely good schools etc for a family in a strange land. I will be ok it's the rest of the family that I'm concerned about.
Jul 21st 2013, 2:52 am
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Re: Living in the GTA
Hon, I know all about it. Souvy knows all about it. Nous avons eu des decennies de cela.
You give us enough grief with your not liking the gays and the blacks and the drinkers and all. There's no need to get into dissing the francophones.
You give us enough grief with your not liking the gays and the blacks and the drinkers and all. There's no need to get into dissing the francophones.
Jul 21st 2013, 2:57 am
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Re: Living in the GTA
You must be a sensitive soul.