| Purchasing Power Index | 85.51 | Moderate |
| Safety Index | 60.74 | High |
| Health Care Index | 75.87 | High |
| Climate Index | 65.35 | High |
| Cost of Living Index | 72.80 | Moderate |
| Property Price to Income Ratio | 12.62 | High |
| Traffic Commute Time Index | 44.79 | Moderate |
| Pollution Index | 37.67 | Low |
| Quality of Life Index: | 149.30 | High |
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https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/01/man-stabbed-face-outside-toronto-eaton-centre/
This place is also becoming unsafe for certain groups of people because of the Polish nationalist bringing his racist and antisemitic upbringing from Poland into Canada, while accusing African-Americans of being "outsiders" who "don't integrate" into his white nationalist utopian vision of Canada.
There are also racist middle-aged white men who accost Muslim women on the street, the infamous Yamayama man in North York being one. How he isn't arrested for criminal harassment or beaten to death by taunting the wrong guy baffles me...
200,000 and higher: good life, specially if you extort rents from newcomers who will never be able to settle and are replaced as disposable paper cups.
100,000-199,000: Worried all the time, and being pushed by your directors to fire people who do not conform, or who get sick, or who get pregnant.
45,000-99,999: awful existence, you are either a mortgage slave, or you are a renter at the mercy of one of the groups above, who have no compassion and will put you, your kids, your pets on the streets whenever they feel like reno-viction time.
0-45,000: If you are not lucky with the subsidized rent lottery, where the chances are one in a million or 10 year long waitlist, you are here temporarily, get four jobs, and count your days.
Awful city, save yourself all the horror stories.
For newcomers to Toronto, who are not coming with a couple million dollars in cash and a 6 figure job offer from a bank, be aware of the following articles from reputable sources:
- Foreign credentials are rarely recognized, or not at all.
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/01/29/not-recognizing-credentials-costs-billions-report/
I have met doctors who found jobs transporting patients or in call centers. They get tired, they leave, and they are replaced by other newcomers.
- Even local university graduates have issues finding jobs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/millennial-jobs-education-1.4009295
More often they have to compete with people who come from outside and will take lower salaries for the same positions.
- Renting a place is severely not affordable, it will eat half of your salary or more
http://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-rent-january-2018
There is an opioid crisis (http://torontosun.com/news/provincial/opioid-crisis-kills-addicts-ruins-career-of-a-compassionate-windsor-doctor)
Housing crisis (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-average-asking-monthly-rent-september-2017-canada-mortgage-housing-1.4529133)
Traffic congestion crisis (https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/01/11/toronto-dominates-list-of-worst-traffic-jams-across-canada.html)
Emergency room waits of 8 hours or more/ health care capacity crisis (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/now-more-than-ever-we-need-to-solve-ontarios-health-care-crisis-of-capacity/article37490512/).
If you have kids, a child care crisis:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/03/08/solving-ontarios-child-care-crisis.html
And recently, a gun crisis
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/levy-mayor-and-council-helped-create-the-gun-crisis