Has anyone relocated from Toronto to Windsor?

[GOAT]

I didn't realize that all of downtown were welfare bums? Surprising because of the 5,500 people that call downtown their home quite a few are way above the average income.

There are some very nice places to live within the downtown area whether you want house or condo living. But there are some sketchy areas as well. You will know them when you see them.

Windsordave is right about all of the positives in Windsor andjust how poorly it is marketed [[shame on you Gordon Orr and shame onboth the county ahd city councils for their constant infighting).

It all depends on what youwant. If you want a nice older house then try Riverside, Walkerville and parts of downtown.
If you want mid century living [[ranch houses) then S. Windsor is it as are parts of Riverside.
If you want bland raised ranches [[houses attached to garages) then the 'burbs are for you.

[Toronto99]

Thanks Goat...to start I would probably be looking at a condo in a newer building...I know the high rises are downtown but are there low rise condo units away from downtown you can think of?

[warsaw7]

I'd like to relocate from Detroit to Toronto.........

[kraig]

Davewindsor, if you're not on the Windsor welcoming committee, you should be. Good stuff.

[davewindsor]

I didn't realize that all of downtown were welfare bums? Surprising because of the 5,500 people that call downtown their home quite a few are way above the average income.

I hope you're not putting words in my mouth. I never said "welfare bums"; I said welfare cases. Most of the geared to income high rises run by Windsor Social housing are in downtown, ex. 920 Ouellette, Cencourse, Glengarry Towers, etc.. Social services has been consolidated to mostly.400 city hall square. There's the downtown YMCA, Good Fellows, Downtown Mission, the Salvation army housing, the Methadone clinic on University, etc. People on welfare are going to mostly congregate around where the city sets up social services infrastructure and that's mostly in downtown. This is part of what makes it a very challenging area. Even though downtown has a lot of commercial vacancies, I have nothing against downtown personally. In fact, I own quite a few buildings in downtown. I live in the outskirts of downtown too. If you see all the welfare cases at Tim Horton's, McDonald;s or around downtown, it can get pretty depressing and I've heard a lot of out of towners tell me how much the City of Windsor sucks even though the only place they checked out while passing through Windsor was downtown on their way to the casino or tunnel.

They never went to Devonshire Mall or Tecumseh Mall or another area of Windsor that would give them a completely different story. The parking lot is almost filled at Devonshire Mall. All the stores are rented. You walk into the Chapter's/Mall entrance and there's a bulletin board with dozen's of help wanted ads for different stores in the mall. People are well dressed. You go to the Keg Steakhouse on a Friday night for a $40 steak and it's packed chair to chair . A completely different story of Windsor than from what you'd get driving around downtown Windsor..