[Christien]

I think everyone is spot-on here. It's a HUGE country with many different available lifestyles. The big cities are expensive though Montreal is still reasonable in most places and is my favourite place I've ever lived.

Larry posted some nice pics of our city of Hamilton, about 45 min. outside Toronto. When my wife and I bought a house we were living in Toronto. We wanted to stay nearby but also wanted a fair size house. Just to give an idea, we bought our place here in Hamilton in 2004 for $230K, 50x150 lot, fully detached, 2 story, 1.5 car garage, 3 bedrooms, unfinished basement, showed poorly because it needed lots of cosmetic work. We've put about $20K into the house (including finishing the basement and adding 3 rooms) and it would now sell for closer to $300K, partially helped by an increasing housing market. For perspective, our house anywhere near central Toronto (where we wanted to live) would be at least 2 million.

There are tons of Porsche guys in the greater Toronto area and our local PCA chapter (upper Canada region) is very active with socials and track days. Autocross doesn't seem to be very popular among the Porsche crowd though.