[lamlam]

I feel this is a bit sensationalized. If one didn't want to put up with Toronto housing prices, there are many other affordable choices within 1-2h drive from Toronto. No need to pack up and move to Winnipeg which, btw, is the murder capital of the country [1]. And this is in a year that Toronto is seeing some of its worst gun violence since the mid 2000s.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4347007/manitoba-has-highest-homi...

[omaplata]

Winnipeg is in the top ten, but definitely not the murder capital of Canada: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/these-are-the-canadian-...

To put it in perspective, the murder rate of 2.9 per 100,000 makes Winnipeg about as dangerous as San Jose, CA or Raleigh, NC.

[village-idiot]

I’m still amazed that we consider a 1-2h commute acceptable.

[lamlam]

I would not consider that acceptable. I guess the assumption is that you would commute into Toronto for work. But that is not what I was talking about. I meant that there were places close by that one could have a life. For example, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Hamilton. All these places have way more affordable housing and job opportunities.

[John_KZ]

It's not, but it's better than moving a couple thousand kilometers away from your friends and family, denying your kids to their grandparents if you're married etc.