Quality of Life in Toronto, Canada

If you don't own property and earn at least $10,000 a month, your quality of life is drastically precarious and under an extremely high risk of becoming a vagrant with one job loss or above rent increase.

The system in Toronto is designed in a way which siphons the earnings of the working class to enrich the top percentile. Rent extraction is very literal in Toronto, where people just work hard to pay more and more rent or mortgage to a landlord or bank.

Those who were already rich to begin with decades ago are ahead of everyone, and those who are being lured into this social experiment will become debt serfs for the rest of their lives.

The quality of life in Toronto is declining.

High rents, decline in real wages, high car insurance costs. This city is one giant Mouse Utopia experiment.

A good quality of life means a stable career, steady income, extended health benefits, and security in terms of career, health and person.

I wish to tell you that Toronto doesn't provide these components to their fullest potential if you're not already rich, or an upper middle class Canadian who owns rental properties to profit from the labor of immigrants.

Many Indian nationals arrive in the GTA to pay $500 a month to share a bed with several other people inside a room, living WORSE than the slums of the Philippines, but paying the monthly Filipino wage to live in such crowded conditions.

The only jobs that newcomer Indian nationals get are labor and warehouse jobs with low pay and little job security. And when there are mass layoffs, some of the young Indian guys commit suiside and return to India in a jar of ashes (cremation).

Canada is selling newcomers a lie based on an economy that no longer exists. Canadians are feeling the squeeze, but the government plans to worsen this housing and economic crisis by opening the floodgates to more greater fools.

Canada was and is designed for the wealth elites who profit from this miserable economic malaise.

Anon below,

Dual income professional couples have to work over a decade just to save a 5% downpayment, because rents are as high as the mortgage for a house.

Quality of life in Toronto is going down. People are paying $500 a bed to share a room with several other international students.

This is supposed to be Canada and not some overpopulated slum.

I couldn’t agree with you more Patel! Unfortunately they can’t the reply lol

If you’re middle class and own a home abroad, why liquidate everything to pay $2,000 or more a month to rent a basement while working your back off in factories?

Do you realize that Canada is scamming you because Canadians are already stuck in a debt trap and broke?

I m a scam company working as an agent for the most of the time I m corrupted

What should I say here exactly?
I'm gonna work at canada
My skills are web design,Network,Database and Teaching English
Could you help me to find a appropriate job?

Re the rant by Anonymous on March 24 . . . It makes sense that it's an anonymous comment, I suppose, because I doubt very much s/he would say much of what is posted to the face of any other Canadian. Yes, housing is expensive. No, the likes Greta Thunberg haven't spoiled one's prospects in this country. Sorry you're having such a rough time with absolutely everything, Anonymous. I'm betting your problems stem from your judgemental nature.

I read all the commons and totally agrees! I have been living In Toronto for 20 years one of those immigrants they talked about. I would not recommend anyone WHO IS NOT RICH to come here to live.

Toronto is now the 4th largest city in North America after Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York. Chicago by the way is now #6. That brings a whole new dimension to this review.

Let me summarize pros and cons here…
Pros:
Big, fast growing city
Criminal situation is not bad compare to many other North American cities
Easier to find a job than elsewhere in Ontario
Decent public transportation by North American standards
Nice weather. Good summer, spectacular fall, decent winter and no spring. Usually, winter changes into summer in a couple of short weeks.
Very good community services - excellent library, many ice skating/hockey places, public pools at the community centres
Most public schools are good
Extremely diverse city.
Many immigrants - easy to blend in. Some people claim Toronto is #1 in North America by the number of immigrants per capita

Cons:
Big, fast growing city
VERY expensive daycare
Very expensive real estate prices. A good condo will be a half of a mil CAD. A nice house is over a mil CAD
Land transfer tax in Toronto is almost 2 times higher than elsewhere in Ontario - you have to pay the land transfer tax when you buy a property
Rent is fairly expensive and not always includes the utilities. On many occasions the tenant has to pay hydro as well as the rent
Beer is very expensive

Conclusion:
I have to agree with many that if your income is under $50k, the life is not good in Toronto. Child care is VERY expensive. Public transportation is not cheap - $3.25 a ride. But! You don’t pay for the transfer. You can travel entire city east to west to the airport for $3.25 using a bus, subway, and another bus or a streetcar.
The bottom line - if you make close to 6 digits, the life is good in Toronto.