Best area to live in Toronto?

Question

Hi,

I came on here roughly 4 weeks to ask whether living and working in Toronto would be better than Ottawa. After a long hard think I have decided I like the feel of Toronto and I will be making my journey there within 4-5 weeks time.

My question is I have already secured my one-year working visa from the Canadian High Commission to let me work in Canada. I looking to find out where is the best area to live in terms of safety/low crime, friendly area, shops nearby and if possible close to downtown Toronto. I've been told by numerous people that Markham seems like a nice area but could someone please tell me if it is. I'll be looking to pay around $700 per month, would that be enough?

I'm not going to lie but I do have my concerns when landing in Toronto I won't be able to find work.....I do have experience in customer service while working in a contact centre working for a well known gas company in the UK. I have few IT qualifications in Microsoft (MCDST XP & CompTIA A+), but yet I do not have any commercial experience in IT. I also have experience in Admin and Data entry too.

I would fully appreciate it if anyone could give me any advice where are the best areas to live please.

Answer 1

People who come on the one year working holiday visa usually travel and work casually. Very few firms will be interested in hiring you except through a temp agency.



There is going to be very little in Markham at that price but you might get a basement if you are lucky.



Markham is not close to downtown Toronto.

Answer 2

Markham isn't part of Toronto, and you won't be able to get a place for only $700. I would recommend North York or East York, both are reasonably priced areas but also safe and clean. If you plan to rent an apartment in a building, google it first to make sure it's clean, bed bugs are a big problem in some areas. The cheapest apartment I've lived in was still $850 a month, so if your budget is tight you might want to look for a room mate to share expenses with. Most places want you to sign a lease to guarantee you will be there a full year, and also expect you to pay first and last month's rent up front, so make sure to bring money with you in case you don't get a job right away.



You can get a head start on your job search by posting your resume on job sites like monster.ca, my husband got a good job that way and still works there. A convenient job to look into is at Starbucks - you get extra money from tips, free drinks and get to take home food at the end of the day, and they also provide health coverage, which might come in handy since you aren't Canadian and won't get coverage.

Answer 3

First choose why you're shifting to Toronto: what do you desire to be different? do you desire to stay in the suburbs or in the city? i could steer clear of Jane/Finch, specific, yet Cabbagetown isn't too undesirable, aside from an extremely small section east of Sherbourne and north of Dundas. I used to stay at King and Parliament (on Trinity, a small area-highway) and enjoyed it. For me, ordinary accessibility to the subway, or in all threat a important and standard 24-hour streetcar, replaced into an exceptionally extensive attention. on the different hand, my important different mandatory someplace for a gardan, and someplace to park a motor vehicle. We ended up shifting to Dufferin and Eglinton West, yet we've been too far from the subway station, and did no longer bypass downtown as generally as we had planned. Little Italy may well be a extra helpful section from that point of view, or the seashores. Now magazine was once (might desire to be) a important place to seek for leases, and likewise the Toronto vast call on Saturday (and its information superhighway internet site). you will possibly desire to bypass to for a mutually as and attempt and get to understand some factors in case you may. asserting Yonge highway isn't a important section is slightly stupid for the reason that's an exceptionally extremely long highway :-) Yonge and Eglinton is unquestionably-to-do, Yonge and Bloor is close to a reasonably wealthy section, Yonge and Dundas isn't a vacationer section with loud music blaring. Toronto is a city the place factors can substitute thoroughly in a block. We have been on the fringe of a reasonably low-earnings Jamaican section (very friendly human beings, however) and merely previous that a block or 2 replaced into wooded area Hill, with its million-greenback residences. Then previous that via a block an Orthodox Jewish-owned place of residing construction the place the elevator stops on each floor on the Sabbath. in case you desire to be someplace eclectic, like Kensington marketplace or Queen St. West or perhaps Danforth via Chester, or in an extremely gay-beneficial section like Church + Wellesly or Danforth, or an artist section like the Gooderham progression on front St., take that into consideration too. And specific, in case you desire to stay in the suburbs and nail submitting your backyard and wax your motor vehicle and be 0.5 an hour to an hour from absolutely everyone authentic :-) then stay in Markham or Mississagua or Vaughn :-)

Answer 4

700 a month means you dont have a big choice to picking good areas to live. wanna live near downtown with 700 a month? expect a bad area ..