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Date Posted: 20:10:24 12/13/03 Sat
Author: Jeannie (forum admin)
Subject: 
Commuting from Port Perry
In reply to:
Tami
's message, "Relocation Questions!" on 01:53:28 12/11/03 Thu
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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