Plans to move to Canada/Toronto. Any tips?

Question

Hi there,
I really have no clue how it works.... But.... I am 36 single mother of 16 year old. Currently we live in the USA. However, all my family lives in Canada. You can imagine they all want me to move to Canada as well. I really "fear" changes... Please tell me something that will make me braver, something that will make me to be interested in moving.
Thanks.
Allie.

Answer 1

Grew up in Toronto. Its a very big and busy city. The only cities in US that compare are the mega cities like NY, LA, Chicago, Detroit. Even cities like Boston seem small compared to T.O.

The city is fairly clean by US tsnadrads, people are less pushy then I find in mist major US cities. Torronto is very multi-cultural. Go to Spadina Avenue sometime; I think you'll enjoy the Chinese food and stores. You might want to get interested in hocky, its very big in T.O.

Toronto is an English city, no need for French there at all. Learn the metric system but once you use it, you will find miles, pounds and ounces and gallons pretty irrational.

I still find Toronto very safe although not as much as when I was a kid there. For example, homocides are 1.8/100,000 people. Compare that to more than ten times that for Kansas City, 4 times that for NY, 90 times that many for Detroit. Toronto, population about 3 million gets about one murder a week. I guess detroit gets about 100/week. (see table below). You canhave fun with this table. If, for example you live in Houston, you could expect murder rates to be about one seventh the rate you have now, robberies 1/5th and breakins 1/3. I think you could say Toronto is very much safer than every major US city!

Toronto has a ton of restaurants, three universities an extensive subway system, a kick a5s zoo, major league baseball, NHL hockey and a decent theatre scene.

And, the kicker, free health care, hardly any guns and lots of neat stuff nearby like Niagra Falls and the Niagra wine region.

Answer 2

clothing and nutrition are really inexpensive there. i'm guessing that an living house will be inexpensive too then, and beer :] I say berricade your door, and purchase various of pepper spray. Hahaha. No i do not understand. issues changed into once lots safer at the same time as i changed into there, now i'm listening to contained in the data that there is this conflict adversarial to drugs occurring contained in the streets, of folk being killed and tortured and abducted. yet i do not understand. issues would no longer be that undesirable everywhere, or in any respect because information have a tendency to concentration in easy words on the undesirable aspects of what they're reporting. there's a lot of issues well worth sorting out. it is totally populated in spite of the indisputable fact that it is complete of subculture. have thrilling dude, i'm certain you'll relish it.

Answer 3

Well Toronto has alot of great things in it. First of all you wont notice much of a difference between Toronto and much of the US it looks very American I find. Alot to do, multicultural. So alot to offer, looks alot like the US and you have family there so what more could you ask for?

Answer 4

Let's see...

"Free" health care, cultural diversity (about 49% of the population of Toronto was born outside of Canada), a great theatre district (second ONLY to Broadway)...

And let's not forget the Leafs ;);););)

Answer 5

Why? Don't give in to pressure to move, do you really want to? What about your kid, does he/she want to move? If they are still in school, why would you make them go to a foreign school? Least wait till your kid is out of school. I frankly don't like Canadians, because when they come to NY they can't drive properly. I dated a Canadian, what a head ache. If you are Canadian to begin with why did you want to move to the US? If you aren't wanting to move, I wouldn't do it just to please your family, you are old enough to make your own decisions. But I would at least wait until the 16 yr old is out of school.

Answer 6

* Learn French. You'll need it to read road signs and soup cans. And money.