maybe sometimes hes about half and half at the moment depends on where the site is, sometimes train is quicker, hes a project manager.

I have done it on the Express and 20 mins is about spot on, thats after the pickering stop, as it waits for 5 mins . On the regular train you can double that time as it stops at all the stations.

Down town is easy to drive from the east, just miss out the 401 after Whites Road and use Kingston Road all the way to the end of the DVP/Lakeshore.

Small parts of Ajax aren't the greatest. For example, I find that anywhere near Harwood Avenue south of Highway 2 probably isn't the greatest (just in terms of it being primarily low income and a little rundown, as opposed to being actually dangerous in terms of crime, drugs, etc.). Anywhere else in Ajax is generally pretty decent.

Hi,
We live in the Scarborough Bluffs area. Scarborough, in general, has a bad rep but we have been here almost a year and have had no issues. We love our village.
Our son had just finished AS level maths, physics, chemistry & biology when we arrived. He went to the local High School, which has an IB program, and had no trouble fitting in. Our daughter (13) will start there in Sept.
We are on the Lakeshore East GO, it takes 25 mins to Union. My son takes the TTC downtown as it's cheaper. Driving downtown is easy but we rarely do it.
Good luck with your move, feel free to PM me if you have any questions.
Regards,
Deeny

thanks for replies, Will deffo look into all your areas, ive been looking At IB schools for my son......did your son do the two years or just one once you arrived after his as levels?

My son would be very suited to the IB programme,its actullay somethong hes applied to do for sixth form over here....... but my dd will be 14 in June and is not as bright as her brother so im not sure it will be for her, im not sure i like idea of diffrent schools for them, something well have to consider....means looking at more than one school in an area.......is this a common thing?

I know over here its quite normal for siblings to attend diffrent secondary schools.....?

Ok and ill probably be laughed at but whats a blue collar , my canadian friend talked about some places being blue collar towns?......i didnt ask her about that one, i did mean to!

thanks for the info x

Blue collar workers perform manual tasks. White collar workers sit at desks. Towns with a lot of tract housing, Barrie, Oshawa, Ajax are thought of as being blue collar by people who live in marginally better areas, such as Oakville/Mississauga north of the QEW. As in the UK, such distinctions are primarily important to the petit bourgeois, I doubt anyone living in St. Jamestown or Oakville south of the QEW much cares.

One child could participate in the IB program at a school while the other follows the dunce's route but the former will come to look down on the other as a white collar Canadian would a blue collar one.

Seriously, do you even read what you write, i didnt call her a dunce, thats clearly quite rude, i just said that shes doesnt excel like her brother, and id be worried about setting her up to fail......not calling her thick.

Oh yes. That's what IB students call non-IB students in the same school. I sought to highlight, briefly, that enrolling one child in an elitist program and not the other child would likely lead to conflict.

ok, i didnt realise you could have children following diffrent programmes in the same school.....I thought it was just one.....i was thinking along the lines of diffrent schools for them, this i didnt know, i can see your point here it probably wouldnt be the same school, although i hadnt even thought of this as a possibility.....from what ive read about comparable education she may even end up average as our education tends to be a year ahead, she is by no means thiick, just average.....she only missed her 11 plus by 1 point where as her brother passed and has excelled ever since completing most gcses in year 9.

Hi, try looking at Burlington, just along from Oakville. Is a mixture of new and older housing, they have an IB program at Robert Bateman school, is on the GO line. Lots of Brit expats here.

thanks its on my list of places to check out!, i had been looking at schools too.