[dkonieczek]

No one is taking account the demographic that are likely to move to Toronto.

If you have a partner or significant other, it's not worth relocating to Toronto. Tech job's salaries are already considered extremely high here, but the majority of other jobs don't come close outside a few industries such as medical. Not to mention, non-tech industries are not booming like the tech industry, so even finding a decent job is a challenge.

Therefore, the demographic of people that would even consider relocation to Toronto are singles. After I graduated college and moved downtown from Etobicoke, I have so much more free time to actually live life. That 2 hours of commuting is extremely valuable, and this is coming from someone who was born and raised in Toronto. If you're a newcomer and single living outside of downtown or at a distance from work, commuting 1 hour to work, then working for 8 hours, and finally commuting 1 hour back - that's already 10 hours gone from your day. Factor in daily tasks and you're left with very little time in the week to find friends or socialize.

[r0fl]

Not sure why you aren’t upvoted more

People just don’t understand how valuable time is. Commuting 2hrs each way daily x 5 days is 40 hours a month you will never get back.

Also I find that people with long commute times rarely admit how bad it is in the winter. I work from home 70% of my days and when I commute it’s 30 minutes by car each way. On a bad winter day it’s 3x that! Taking an Uber home to port credit after a night of drinking on a winter day would take 3 hours!

I recently spoke to a man who lives in the east end and commutes by car everyday to Cambridge! He said it’s 3 hours each way in the winter, blew my mind! (His wife worked in the east end)

[ekovarski]

Socialize? People are too busy working to afford living in the big smoke. :)

All joking aside, some folks I've known driven from St Catherine every day to work in the core. Summer wasn't too bad, winter they left at 4am and got home around 10pm just to rinse and repeat. Hardly got to see his kids. Truly not sure what they told themselves to keep doing it every day as to me it was simply insane.

[DKnoll]

For me at least, I like driving so I would probably spend 2 hours driving anyway. I listen to music or podcasts and destress before I get home. I really don't mind it.