{"id":19284,"date":"2017-04-05T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19284"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:02:07","slug":"tired-of-toronto-why-not-move-to-the-st-catharines-niagara-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/tired-of-toronto-why-not-move-to-the-st-catharines-niagara-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of Toronto? Why not move to the St. Catharines-Niagara region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/homes\/tired-of-toronto-why-not-move-to-the-st-catharines-niagara-region\">National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took Russell Phipps just one day to sell his three-bedroom, 1,800-sq.-ft. house in Ajax, Ont., after a fierce bidding war. With an early closing and no place yet to live, the Toronto native moved into a friend\u2019s 550-sq.-ft. Corktown condo in the city to give downtown living a try. It didn\u2019t take long before he realized he wanted out ? far out&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Phipps can\u2019t gush enough about all the pluses of leaving Toronto. He didn\u2019t have to deal with intense condo bidding wars. He only had to pay a $20,000 deposit instead of about $80,000 in the big city. He avoided what he calls Toronto\u2019s \u201cdouble land transfer tax.\u201d Parking, storage and finish upgrades were all included in the $389,000 price tag. He can walk to work, the mall and the gym but is still within an hour\u2019s drive of Toronto if he wants to pop in to see friends. And he\u2019s just 10 minutes from the beach. \u201cI get all the bonuses of condo living but I get it in a suburban atmosphere.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In Niagara Falls, Mayor Jim Diodati uses words like \u201cexplosive\u201d and \u201cfeverish\u201d to describe the unprecedented growth in his city\u2019s south and southwest ends. More than half of the new home and condo purchases are from GTA buyers, he says, with \u201centire subdivisions selling out before we can get services in the ground.\u201d Some 761 building permits worth $238.5 million were issued last year, up 27.3 per cent from 2015. Those numbers \u201care from outer space,\u201d Diodati says.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara region\u2019s population is expected to grow from 447,888 now to 610,000 by 2041, according to the municipality\u2019s forecasts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--Ads1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Post: It took Russell Phipps just one day to sell his three-bedroom, 1,800-sq.-ft. house in Ajax, Ont., after a fierce bidding war. With an early closing and no place yet to live, the Toronto native moved into a friend\u2019s 550-sq.-ft. Corktown condo in the city to give downtown living a try. 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