If you are from Toronto and have purchased real estate in the last ten years- you won the lottery! Sell your place, move down here and enjoy the benefits of one of the cheapest places to live in Canada.

As the head of the Downtown Windsor BIA I take great exception to the comments about "downtown welfare bums" -WTF does that come from? While our downtown certainly has vacancy issues, welfare bums are certainly not a problem at all.

Ask fiddler extraordinaire Ashley MacIsaac- he just moved here and he could theoretically live anywhere on the planet- as Lowell said, my neighbourhood, Walkerville, is an idyllic 19th century company town with beautiful homes at stupid prices- check out my website listed above for anything you need to know about Walkerville:

www.walkervilletimes.com

There is a movement of folks migrating here from TO- you can buy a house for $100,000 near the aforementioned RiverWalk, fix it up and you are good to go.

Take the 100 mile peninsula challenge; this is for retirees but is instructive:

http://www.retirehere.ca

http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/realest...draws-retirees