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[kram74]

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[J-C]

By far the nicest and best place to live!
I cant wait to move into this area in a few years!!

 

[cruzin4u]

Mouthwatering!

These properties are beautiful. It shows that you don't need a ridiculously large home. You can have beautiful homes lined on a street, but it's the mature trees and landscaping that give it that extra pop.

#18 is probably my favorite. Thank you for sharing!

 

[ganjavih]

Stunning neighbourhood... one of Toronto's most charming. And I love the lack of sidewalk!

 

[Ummagumma66]

I grew up not too far from here (Islington and Palace Arch Dr. Area) It is one of the nicest parts of Etobicoke (if not all of Toronto)

 

[Blovertis]

Stunning neighbourhood... one of Toronto's most charming. And I love the lack of sidewalk!

And how is that a good thing? Makes the neighbourhood look suburban, if you ask me.

 

[taal]

I grew up not too far from here (Islington and Palace Arch Dr. Area) It is one of the nicest parts of Etobicoke (if not all of Toronto)

hmm ... I wouldn't go that far ... or even close to it to be honest.
Maybe if you like the particular style but other then that I wouldn't say it's nicest in general!

I also agree with the above comments how is a lack of a sidewalk a good thing ... sure if cars willingly share space with pedestrians like it's second nature but that's not the case in North America. No sidewalk = stupid + suburban. Also, is there anything around the area at all? how is TTC access. To be a truly great area you really need to have all of the above. Having nice houses isn't good enough in my opinion, if it was there are plenty of good places in older suburban parts of Missi (Missi has some nice semi/urban older areas like this actually, I wish one of you Missi guys could post pictures! - similar to this area actually) ... but actually other then Missi and older suburbs in Toronto you won't find similar areas anywhere else in the GTA so I'll give you that much.

 

[Mustapha]

I notice this area has escaped monster home builds; I wonder why that is?

 

[Jarrek]

Great neighborhood, but obviously extremely expensive. Some of the roads in this area are really narrow, and if you look at the photos, you can realize just how much of an impact trees make in raising the area's property values. Another nice neighborhood just east of here over the Humber is Baby Point.

 

[Jonny5]

Most of The Kingsway is a maximum 15 minute walk to Royal York subway station. The bus service on Royal York is frequent.

 

[kram74]

"Taal" do you mean the mississauga area around the lakeshore? if thats what you mean i can drive over there in a few days to get some pictures. i'm not sure of the area your talking about.

i've been wanting to get some pictures of the really big houses in the mississauga/oakville area. just need to find the time.

just like "jonny 5" said
there is great ttc service in the area. "Royal York Subway station" is at the top of the kingsway. buses don't go don't the streets of the kingsway because the home owners don't want them to. but, the buses do go up and down royal york road.
p.s. "jonny 5" is your name taken from the movie "short circuit"?

there are not alot of sidewalks because the home owners do not want to lose there grass or trees. the home owners in that area are a powerful voice. they really work with each other in keeping the area the same "old fashion way"

the streets are narrow on purpose. a few years ago all the streets were re-done.
the streets were wide in the past, but the home owners found people were using there streets to avoid the traffic on "royal york" and they were speeding. So now the streets were made smaller to bug the "speeders" to get them to stay off there roads. and with the streets so small its hard to park. so if you want to park anywhere you have to go to the top of the kingsway to the public parking lots.

"Mustapha" the home owners association in the area will not allow monster homes. if you wish to work on your house. there are many rules to follow. the "new house" has to look "old". there are many by-laws in effect in the area on construction. in one of the pictures you can see a house being worked on. notice how the front is still there. it has to be. and the trees can not come down. monster homes are aloud in other neibourhoods but just not the kingsway.

there are many things in the area. i have a post up called the "taste of the kingsway" all those stores are at the top of the street of the kingsway. just to give you a gerneral idea of the different places the home owners go to.

 

[Urban Shocker]

I get the impression that - even more so than in the Annex - the good burghers of the Kingsway are thoroughly determined that their neighbourhood will never, never, ever change, and that their quasi Tudor/Jacobean/Georgian houses from the inter-War years will remain the model for whatever rare new structures are built, come hell or high water. That cartoonish Hansel & Gretel thing looks like it might be a new build, but it's impossible to imagine a Stephen Teeple being built anywhere there, without rivers of blood flowing down the leafy avenues first.

 

[Blovertis]

Looking at these photos again, I see that there are a number of sidewalks. Still, I don't think the Kingsway has the charm of Rosedale or the grandeur of Forest Hill. I guess I'm just not a fan of the faux-Tudor look that was obviously big in the Twenties and Thirties.

 

[taal]

"Taal" do you mean the mississauga area around the lakeshore? if thats what you mean i can drive over there in a few days to get some pictures. i'm not sure of the area your talking about.

i've been wanting to get some pictures of the really big houses in the mississauga/oakville area. just need to find the time.

just like "jonny 5" said
there is great ttc service in the area. "Royal York Subway station" is at the top of the kingsway. buses don't go don't the streets of the kingsway because the home owners don't want them to. but, the buses do go up and down royal york road.
p.s. "jonny 5" is your name taken from the movie "short circuit"?

there are not alot of sidewalks because the home owners do not want to lose there grass or trees. the home owners in that area are a powerful voice. they really work with each other in keeping the area the same "old fashion way"

the streets are narrow on purpose. a few years ago all the streets were re-done.
the streets were wide in the past, but the home owners found people were using there streets to avoid the traffic on "royal york" and they were speeding. So now the streets were made smaller to bug the "speeders" to get them to stay off there roads. and with the streets so small its hard to park. so if you want to park anywhere you have to go to the top of the kingsway to the public parking lots.

"Mustapha" the home owners association in the area will not allow monster homes. if you wish to work on your house. there are many rules to follow. the "new house" has to look "old". there are many by-laws in effect in the area on construction. in one of the pictures you can see a house being worked on. notice how the front is still there. it has to be. and the trees can not come down. monster homes are aloud in other neibourhoods but just not the kingsway.

there are many things in the area. i have a post up called the "taste of the kingsway" all those stores are at the top of the street of the kingsway. just to give you a general idea of the different places the home owners go to.

Something like that ... actually one area is a bit north. Please disregard my upcoming spelling:
Somewhere south on Hourtario (South of Eglinton for sure) if you turn to the west there is an area with HUGE trees (forest like, way bigger then what's in the pictures above) and old / new large houses. Personally it's a bit much for me, I'd be scared to live there it's like living in the forest but I'm sure a lot of people would like it. It's fairly dense too ... well as opposed to high end / large houses in Markham / Newmarket

 

[androiduk]

I notice this area has escaped monster home builds; I wonder why that is?

You'll also notice the lack of giant obnoxious SUV's in the driveways. Actually most of the vehicles look pretty modest. Maybe it's just Kingsway Kulture. Good for them.