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I like to joke that our building looks like Soviet block housing from outside but prices have gone up 25% in the past year and my guess will climb even higher this year. I heard there was yet another bidding war over the weekend for one of our large "rarely available three-bedroom suites." Our...

We lived near there in the 80s. I don't recall a Knob Hill there. There was a Food City and, below it, Towers. I think the Drug City was inside the Towers. There definitely was a CD, in the location where there is now a massage supply store at the eastern end. Between those, at least one...

Absototalutely. It's an argument I have been making for years in the Family-Sized Condo thread. But I would keep the greenbelt.

My niece works in Brampton. Her husband runs a graphics business from home. They live in Waterdown, in a town they bought three years ago. They make it work on about $110,000 total. They have two cars. They got no help from parents. They have not taken more trips than an all inclusive...

Like I said, not ideal but you have to start somewhere. And there is always the option of a 700 sf condo in town, as you pointed out.

I'm talking Waterdown, Whitby...ya gotta start somewhere. Not ideal but neither is an $800K mortgage.

How about a townhouse in the 905? I'm not saying that that is a dream home but that's why they call dream homes "dream homes." They are something to aspire to, to work towards. When I look at the all the postwar bungalows in East York -- and they're what? 2 bedrooms? 900 sf? -- I know that...

Our children are on their own. Seriously, a starter home is NOT a three-storey semi in Riverdale, kids. Helping to put them through university was enough.

Toronto’s landmark cube home up for sale

Thanks for your posts, very interesting. Just a passing observation about this comment: "It's far too high to be serviceable by my income to leave any money left over to live a decently entertaining life. " I think that, if we are comparing the current situation to that of our parents or...

Haha. Good luck with that.

I haven't been there in a while but I recall their gyro as not being the real deal, i.e. they buy their meat already rolled and prepared for the rotisserie. Maybe it's changed?? I do remember liking their chicken souvlaki. As for Alexandros, boy did it ever nosedive. I think it got sold along...

Oh I am pretty sure they were built before then because I recall a friend living there I think in 1998. He is a professional and kept his office on the ground floor. But they were brand new then. And you are correct about how well they have "aged." If only every development respected their...

I get that but King street is narrow and the blocks around there are small. I would hate to see that hulk become "the pioneer." It completely overshadows the area, in all ways. I'm not against density in the core but this out-sized Brontosaurus just ate the neighbourhood.

Too much mass, in my opinion. Way too much for its context. It reminds me of a Godzilla movie.

Taxes are higher overall. But at least the city clears the snow from the sidewalks.

Meh. We went very soon after it opened and we thought it overpriced and overrated. I also couldn't get over the French fries stuffed in there. I understand that that's how they do it in Greece -- that's what I have been told anyway -- but, to me, it was too starchy. The fries overwhelmed the...

Don't forget the oilsands. We were gonna be a PETROstate and our dollar is so connected to the price of oil, the loon is swimming in tar.