Living In Toronto
Toronto, Ontario lies on the shore of Lake Ontario, the easternmost of the Great Lakes. Toronto is a great city to live and work in. The city is located in the Eastern Time Zone, which allows for convenient communications with key people in the eastern seaboard of North America.
Quality of life is often defined by one particular thing – low crime, availability of arts, entertainment and leisure activity, access to outdoor recreational and wilderness areas, an excellent infrastructure or great
universities. A definition containing just one attribute would be far too limiting for a city like Toronto, however. Toronto is not just admired for its health-care and education systems or its rich cultural mosaic. Quality of life in Toronto is not just about its calibre of major-league sports, entertainment or cultural offerings. In Toronto, quality of life is about all of these things and more.
Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods surrounded by smaller bedroom towns and communities. Some of the most desirable neighbourhoods are located in walking and bicycling distance of the downtown. House prices in the City of Toronto are higher than in the rest of Canada; however, they are still very reasonable compared to major cities worldwide. As a result Toronto is one of the top 20 cities in the Mercer Global Quality-of-Living Survey. In the surrounding communities housing is very affordable and the lifestyle tends to be very family oriented.
Tales of igloos and sub-zero temperatures might be used to describe other regions in Canada, 
but not Toronto. Toronto is on the same latitude as Cannes on the sunny Riviera. In fact, Lake Ontario serves to moderate Toronto's weather to the point that its climate is one of the mildest in Canada.