Comment 36526

By Skully (anonymous) | Posted December 23, 2009 at 07:53:09

My wife and I (and our young daughter) recently bought a gorgeous old detached house with a lovely backyard on Grosvenor South for $205,000. We moved from Toronto...Our friends literally fall off their chairs when they find out that our mortgage is a fraction of what theirs is (in Toronto) and my wife gets to stay home with our daughter...The same house in High Park would cost $700,000 easy. Best part is, like Trey pointed out, we're literally only minutes from everything. We love Ottawa Street North and frequent many of the businesses (Limoncello, Little Bird, Helens, Poco Loco, etc)...in fact, we love pretty much everything about the area (Gage Park still blows me away everytime I jog through it...)...and as for needing a body guard for walking from shop to shop at Centre Mall...give me a break. We've never once felt threatened/unsafe anywhere in the Crown Point area...nor when we take the HSR bus downtown either...and that's both with and without our daughter in tow. Yeah, the area is a bit rough around the edges, but it's an urban cityscape...and that's what gives it the character that makes it so great...if Ottawa Street truly is the next Locke Street, then it's just going to get even better. Moving to Hamilton was the best move we made, and I don't miss Toronto in the least! Instead of crapping all over everyhing, people should embrace what they have and work to make it even better...

Permalink | Context

Events Calendar

There are no upcoming events right now.
Why not post one?

Recent Articles

Article Archives

Blog Archives

Site Tools

Feeds