leepee

Hiya...

We are currently contemplating a move from Calgary to Ontario...Just wondering if anyone knows the area around Unionville/Markham/Richmond Hill...I know the schools are good there and reasonably easy access to Toronto...I am wondering more about the 'look/feel' of the area. I guess we are hoping for a slightly more 'small town' feel....Don't know anything except what I have seen on the internet so any thoughts very welcome...
Thanks
Lisa

Bill_S

I guess it depends what you mean by small town... the population of Markham is about a quarter of a million. It's about 30 years too late to refer to Richmond Hill and Markham as small towns. They're both heavily developed now. I'm not saying it's a bad place to live, but the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is a huge sprawl... I doubt you will find a true small town that is convenient to Toronto.

canbritdenise

I would be interested in knowing why your moving to Ontario, as we are contempleting a move to Calgary

Novocastrian

Pockets of Richmond Hill & Unionville (less so Markham) have the small town feel. The pockets are of course the original bits but they are surrounded by 'orrible sprawling crap these days. Still, you could do worse.

daft batty

Article in our local paper this week says Pbro is in danger of becoming like Richmond Hill.....

Novocastrian

Well, the upside is that your property values will soar....

daft batty

will it a-snow tho?

dbd33

Last night I listen to man reminisce about how Orangeville was less conservative before it was part of the urban sprawl. "People come out here, foisting 'normality' upon us" he complained.

daft batty

He wont object to you then!!

PS, Kitten now called Dude, he goes outside, climbs trees, chases squirrels. A cute cat. To let us know when he is back and wants in, he climsbs the screen door screen and hangs on with his claws, shouting. Cartoon cat.

Novocastrian

Only when appropriate.

dbd33

Happy to hear Dude's doing well, the remaining siblings do much the same.

The long time Orangeviller is the OH's boss. As a someone who's been gay and out in rural Ontario for twenty-five years he's had some, er, unusual experiences. He used to own a bar here, "not a gay bar, there were only three of us in the county - more a place families could come to, but with drag acts".

Novocastrian

<Cranium combusts>

dbd33

His best story concerned a customer who made it to the National Enquirer. Page four but still the actual Enquirer. He was a one armed man, shot by a one legged man in a dispute over the stripper, Wayne couldn't remember what bit the stripper had missing and it wasn't until this morning that I thought to wonder what sex he or she was (or had been if that was the part in question).

Novocastrian

To the OP. Richmond Hill is nothing like Wayne's World. Oh, no!

Novocastrian

Oh! dbd33, while you're on here, you're just the chap who would know if you could get beer in cans in the UK in the mid-70's.