I need help from a Person living in Canada?

Question

My Family is moving to Canada. In Ontario Toronto. Can some one find a good townhouse in Union-ville, Scarborough, or North york. Also A place where I can setup a day-care. And near good high-schools, Middle schools, And junior schools. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You'd have to contact a realtor agency in Toronto to get a good town house. You do not want to live in North York, really bad neighborhood with a lot of inner city gangs.

Answer 2

First of all, I would like to put your mind at ease by disputing the claims of both of the previous (somewhat hysterical) responses that have been provided so far.

Toronto (specifically the GTA, or Greater Toronto Area) is a very large city made up of smaller areas such as Scarbororough or North York.  While, like all big cities, there are areas that have higher crime rates than others, you should by no means believe that North York (or any area) is full of gangs and criminal activity.  I currently live in North York and work in Scarborough, and have never run into any gang activity or felt in any way unsafe.

Unionville, Scarborough, and North York all have good residential communities as you seem to be looking for.  A realtor will be able to steer you towards the type of family neighborhood with townhouses and good schools (we do have middle schools in Toronto by the way, the previous poster obviously lives in a reigon far outside of the city, as is clear by her irrational fear of big cities and ignorance of our school system), and away from some of the more run-down or unsavory pockets of the city.  The Toronto Real Estate Board's website is a good place to start http://www.torontorealestateboard.com/ you can search for a realtor and browse to answer any questions you may have about buying property here.

Setting up a day care can be tricky.  If you want to have more than five kids at a time, you will need to be licenced by the  Ministry of Children and Youth Services http://www.gov.on.ca/children/english/in... If you do want to set up a licenced day care this website may also be useful http://www.canadabusiness.ca/servlet/Con...

Good luck, and welcome to Toronto, it's a great place to live.

Answer 3

Hello!

Well, first of all, Canada doesn't have Middle schools.

It's only divided 3 ways for the board of education:  Elementry (Or Junior) schools which go from Kindergarden to grade 8.  Next step up is High School, which is grades 9 through 12.  And, if you want further education, 4 years of University and College.  Oh yes, there is also pre-schools for toddlers.

Now that that's said...

I am not a realitor.

In order to find a townhouse, that is the person you should contact.  I would not suggest living in North York as it has many inner gangs.  Union-ville and Scarborough seem like the best locations you have chosen!  If you want to find a realitor, look in your phone book.  Or, here's a website provided.  Ask to see if they can find someone to move you from wherever your from to Toronto.

http://www.remax.ca/

Heres a map of the different Regions near Toronto:

http://www.aole.org/gta-map.jpg

The safest I can recomend is Durham Region, or Halton Region.  :)

Talk to your realitor once you get one to see what he/shee recomends.