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Date Posted: 01:53:28 12/11/03 Thu
Author: Tami
Subject: Relocation Questions!

We are seriously considering relocating to your beautiful
town...but my husband is worried about the commute to toronto each day. Does anyone work in toronto and live in Port perry? If so how are the roads year round and how long of a drive in the winter and summer? I am a stay at home mother of four children ages: 12,7,6,4 yrs old. Do many mothers stay at home? Also how would you rate the community
centre programs? Where is the closest indoor swimming facility located? OK! I'd better quit while I'm ahead!
I Hope that someone will be kind enough to answer my trivia questions!

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[> Commuting from Port Perry -- Jeannie (forum admin), 20:10:24 12/13/03 Sat

Hi Tami,

Being a contractor I periodically commute to Toronto, as right now.

Rather than joining the v.slow drive into Toronto, and the exhorbitant parking fees, I drive to Oshawa (sometimes car-pooling) and take the Go Transit to Union. Happily my current contract is right at Union station, so the walk is short; although the metro TTC and buses are right there too.

It's a wonderful place to live. We've been on Scugog Island (a back lot, not lakefront) for 18 months and still loving it.

Far enough from cities to be in a quiet community, but within an hour of Oshawa, Whitby, Lindsay and 1.75 hours of Toronto.

I have to admit that, if I had to work in Toronto continuously, I wouldn't - but only because of the commuting time - nearly 4 hours a day.

Good luck with your decision!

Take care,
Jeannie


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[> [> 4 hours commute per day? -- Tami, 00:37:51 12/15/03 Mon

First let me thank you for replying.
When my husband and I timed his journey from work
(Don Mills/York) to Port Perry, It only took him about an hour. Mind you, this was done on a summer day with favorable weather. We currently live in Maple near Wonderland, and on an average day his drive will take about an 1 1/2 hrs (one way). This is a very stressful 1 1/2 hrs
drive bumper to bumper! We figured that the drive to Port Perry would be a lot less stressful! Assumming that the roads were managed efficiently during the winter. How have you found the road conditions year round?


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[> [> [> Road conditions -- Jeannie (forum admin), 15:52:43 12/16/03 Tue

Hi Tami,

My journey is 15mins longer than driving all the way because I use a mix of car and Go Transit. But that way I have just 40mins drive to Oshawa in bad weather, and sleep for an hour to Union (catch the 5:47am train, so there are only slow trains that early).

I don't drive all the way for the very reason you mention - stress, bumper-to-bumper driving - all of which I have done/been through and don't need again. For the additional half hour a day, I get home refreshed, rather than earlier and frazzled.

Let me know if there's anything else you want to know about.

Take care,
Jeannie :-)


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[> [> [> [> Here comes the Gray Family! -- Tami, 19:48:34 12/17/03 Wed

We have decided that Port Perry is the perfect place to raise our family...My hubby will have to commute each day.
This town is truly a gem! We moved from Kelowna, B.C. about
5 years ago and Port Perry reminds us so much of what we left behind. We will be putting our house up for sale in
February. Hopefully, we will be there before the summer!


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[> [> [> [> [> Welcome -- Jeannie (forum admin), 19:57:32 12/17/03 Wed

Well, welcome to you and your family come the new year.

When you arrive, email me and we'll get together for a welcome drink to you.

Take care,
Jeannie


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[> [> [> [> [> nikki nehring -- ken almond, 20:46:45 04/09/04 Fri

nikki[lois dean]& I were great friends back in 1941 until about 1948 when we went our seperate ways,i visited her in montreal in about 1965,she visited me in calgary in about 1970.
i have been trying to find her these paST couple of years.

she died march 21 2004.

i would like to hear from anyone who knew her.


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[> [> [> 4 hours !!!??? -- Toby, 07:10:19 02/01/06 Wed

I commute every day to Toronto for the last 20 years. I live north East of Nestleton. I takes me just over an hour each way. And I am not a speed demon. I use to live in Scarborough and take the TTC each day. It took me the same amount of time to get to work.


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[> [> [> [> Travel -- Jeannie, 22:12:59 02/12/06 Sun

Yup, if you drive to downtown TO (Adelaide and Yonge), and want to pay the exhorbitant parking rates, it is faster to drive.

But I'd rather keep my sanity and use transit than commute in that god awful traffic every day.

By the way, what time do you leave that it takes just an hour to get downtown from Nestleton? I've had to drive when the GO was out of commission, and the fastest it took me, at 6am, was 1½ hours.

Do you have a particular route that gets you downtown faster?


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[> Commuting from Port Perry -- Marg Blackburn, 19:30:19 01/11/06 Wed

I cannot believe that no one has mentioned how horrible drive really is from Port Perry to Oshawa. I drove that road for several years before deciding to move closer to where I work. Simcoe Street is only a two lane road with many curves and hills. EVERY day you must prepare yourself for at LEAST one close call such as an idiot passing on a hill or on a curve (paying no attention what-so-ever to lane markings). There are also speeders who pass you as if you are standing still (even though you are speeding too). On top of this there are the ridges to contend with. MANY a time, I was stranded on top of the ridges because the steep hill under the railway pass was riddled with cars and trucks who couldn't make it up during a snowfall and basically spun out. Other times, it was just too chancey to try to make it down due to slippery conditions on the hill. At those times, there would be huge line-ups of cars/buses/trucks waiting for sanders to come along. Furthermore, with the price of gas, the price of cars, and the preciousness of time, it makes so much sense to live closer to work. I treasure all the extra time that I now get to spend with my family, as well as all the extra money I save on gas, insurance, cars etc. Most of all, however, I love not having to deal with the daily stress of driving on a road riddled with idiotic drivers!


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[> [> Working close to home -- Jeannie, 22:08:25 01/17/06 Tue

Well - I thoroughly agree with you.

I currently drive to Oshawa and then have a 75 minute journey further to work (total journey 2hrs 10mins each way).

I would love to work closer to home but have been looking for 2 years for a shorter commute.

Know of anything closer to home for someone who has awesome computer technical support skills, is also a professional software trainer and a terrific administrator all rolled into one, let me know !!

Take care,
Jeannie


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[> [> [> the commute from port perry -- david, 11:45:11 07/30/06 Sun

I spent alomst five years commuting to the big smoke from port and back. although it was usually during off peek hours such as 7am -3pm work hours, i found that it onl took an hour to get in and a hour to get out, except of course firday afternoons. I almost never took the highways and ususally took the back roads, never the same way more than two day in a row. take reach road west or take myrtle road west or take #7 out of brooklin, whatever mix it up. the scenery is difinitely worth it. if you want to take the highway ad get there in an hour leave port at about 5am 5:10am no later or your are traffic parking.

have fun discovering the scenery


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[> [> [> [> Back roads -- Jeannie, 13:19:01 08/17/06 Thu

Actually, I now work in Markham, for which there are a miriad of routes to choose and use.

Love it!


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[> [> [> [> Leave Early -- Toby, 13:52:00 09/05/06 Tue

Yes, David is correct. You must leave early to get a good drive in. I leave, supposed to leave, a 5:45 am. I go Shirley Rd to Coates Rd to Lakeridge down to consesion #7,
Westney to Hywy #7 to 407. Clear sailing from there!!!

I know, I know....407 cost money.
But I can afford it, because I make more money working in Toronto than I ever could in Port Perry. Even with Gas etc. I figure that working outside the area is the only way a single woman can afford to live alone. I worked in Port for over 10 years, and the most I could get paid was $12.00 an hour.


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