Pros and Cons of Living In London, Ontario
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Pros and Cons of Living In London, Ontario
This video is on the Pros and Cons of Living In London Canada - There are many pros to living in London Ontario, but there are some Cons about living in London that you should be aware of! Watch this video to see if living in London, Canada is right for you!
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Con #1
02:00 - Con #2
04:50 - Con #3
06:01 - Pro #1
08:44 - Pro #2
11:20 - Pro #3
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Ryan Crits
Sales Representative
Royal LePage Binder Real Esate - 649
London, Ontario, Canada
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London, Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
I'm a school bus driver in London, so I know this city pretty well also. I live in the East end and I work from the East end bus yard. I see homeless people every day in mid town. I see people shooting up right in front of my bus in the alcoves of abandoned buildings. I also see the affluent areas of London. London has very beautiful areas too. I live in a very nice area but you have to drive daily and see the crisis of addiction and homelessness right in front of you on the daily. The mayor has committed himself to tackling this issue. I hope it's soon because I love my city. It is a great city to live in, quite honestly.
I lived in London 76-82 and attended Clarke Road Secondary and UWO. Things certainly have changed!
Haha I went to Clark road in the early 2000s
I have resided in London for 42 yrs now. I have seen tremendous changes over the years.Always lived in Westmount area. I have no need to go downtown ! Despite the downfalls I still enjoy living in London. I always seem to meet friendly &caring people in my area
That’s great to hear!
There are homeless folks all along the Thames Valley Trail who live in tents. In fact, many parks and open spaces are occupied by folks living in tents throughout London. There are solutions to homelessness - it just takes political will, hard work and the ability to successfully coordinate developers, NGOs, charities and multiple government agencies. While not the ultimate solution (homelessness is a complex issue) Medicine Hat employed the HF (Housing First) model that was somewhat successful.
Rents and housing prices skyrocketed within a very small span of time in London (and other communities). Once retirees clued in that they could enjoy a very cushy life, they traded their artificially price inflated Toronto houses for relatively cheap real estate elsewhere, thus pricing many Londoners out of the market, young people in particular. Post secondary students end up being crammed into apartments just to get by. Folks are being renovicted from older apartments on the most specious grounds. Housing Market conditions and inflation are the main contributors to the spike in homelessness and food insecurity.
An overly dramatic business owner in downtown London locked the door to her business (ostensibly to keep the riff riff out) and then launched into a diatribe against folks without a place to live (gosh, as a customer I wasn’t able to shop as she followed me around with her rant). One example of her complaints included a sad tale (not) of her ex-Toronto, early retiree friend who having sold her TO digs to purchase a sight unseen, sexy, downtown London luxury condo, who had buyers remorse upon the reality of having to dwell amongst the “crazy, dirty, drug addict homeless people” (to loosely paraphrase her). What was described was a near zombie apocalypse scenario in which the tattered and desperate appeared around every corner, assaulting the virgin eyes of a well-heeled near-elite accustomed to the grand, leafy neighbourhood of her beloved T.O. Oh the tragic hyperbole! My friend and I managed to dodge and weave out of there once we knew we realized that we weren’t able to browse in peace.
This is an example of not only the elitist snobbery of those who believe at a cool mil is all that stands between them and their shiftless underlings, but the accompanying lack of understanding, compassion and care for folks who’ve been dealt a bad hand in life. Selfish greed and shaky moral high ground is what stands in the way of change for the good of all.
Downtown…including the entire Dundas Street strip end to end and Hamilton Rd. are London’s obvious sore spots…areas that scared, suburban crybabies avoid lest they are confronted with the hard truths of a society they would rather ignore and condemn than support and champion. It’s soooo much easier to pretend it either doesn’t exist…
As a local of this horrendous city, thank you for your very honest and on point comment.
Its like people here don't even want to realize how bad London has become and still is becoming for a no-where mid west city.
We pay more for rent now that LA California, which is insane and the drugs and homelessness is just as bad as VERY big city's like LA or Detroit, NYC, just makes me
depressed that I live here at all...
Awesome comment, very true, keep spreading the facts about this hole called London.
I find your videos most interesting, surprising. I live in Perth Western Australia, and we do have some suspect areas, but I wouldn't call them dangerous or must avoid..
I have worked at nite all over the city and suburbs and never felt worried.
Anyway all the best from the West.
Lol, stumbled on this and I used to live in London so I played through. I used to live next to the methadone clinic you mentioned... in the most incredible apartment ever 20ft ceilings and floor to ceiling windows. It was great but a junky stole my bike at one point... Anyway, thanks for taking me back.
Haha it was always an adventure waiting for that bud downtown!
3:40 Not to mention boarded empty buildings in downtown, It seems like becoming the base of the homelesss.
I grew up in London. Left in the 80’s and have lived in nova scoria and in Alberta since the mid 90’s. Have returned to London a few times in the past 20 years and have to say, it has gone completely downhill. Evidence of drugs and homelessness are around every corner. The traffic is horrific and hotels are a joke. I have had one visit in the past decade that was enjoyable when I managed to rent an air b and b in old North. From what I have seen, there is no room for improvement and it is obvious the city is being managed by misfits with blinders on. Your videos are the first I have seen that tell the truth. I am thankful I left and my sympathies go out to all those that must struggle to live in what London has become.
Mini Detroit, that's my nickname for London.
This place has slid off the plate in 2023-24
very interesting and informative, good luck with your channel
Thanks Victor
Informtive 👍👍
Nice video!! I'm going to london in December, to study at Fanshawe downtown. Which place do you think is better to live that is close?
There are some nice condos - they have a secure entrance and nice interior. One is at colborne and York, there are a few on Talbot - look at Talbot & dufferin. Or the one at Richmond and king
I hate it when ppl complain about the snow in London. I'm like omg move to California or Florida than 😂😂. I really the hope the cost of living goes down in London and the homeless situation is dealt with. So that way London can get back on the map of a city to move to.
Yes for sure. Still a good city, but the homeless problem needs help
Ryan u nailed it!! How are u doing its Sue your old neighbour with ali andrea and michael
Thanks Sue - wow it’s been many years, yes I remember! How are you and your family?
Yeah… the Snow Belt between London and Woodstock. It’s a big deal, actually a lot of it is due to the elevation in addition to the Lake Huron Precipitation. There’s some truth to the age-old expression “going DOWN to Toronto” or “going UP to London” you really do feel like you are much higher up. The area to the North of London is often worse too so as we expand North we might notice it more.
Toronto is about 100M above Sea Level and London is more than 300. In fact the whole area between London and Guelph is higher than the rest of SW Ontario and the winds and precipitation seem to hit London pretty hard. Sometimes we get rain and wind so bad it will break your umbrella.
Snow… yikes sometimes up to 70cm over a 3-day period.
Expressways aren’t the ultimate solution to traffic. Spend some time on T.O.s DVP at rush hour to get a taste of traffic hell. Coming in from the burbs on the 401 and 404 aren’t any better for traffic either. A better solution would be a solid commitment to create reliable public transportation, sadly however, London represents the worst of society’s addiction to car culture. London has been poorly planned around the large single-family house, urban sprawl model…something that realtors wholeheartedly support.
Lived in London my entire life. Always loved it. Until recently. This city, in my opinion, is going to complete shit. The rent. The construction. The drug epidemic. It's terrible to watch it happen.
You have two costcos and better train to Toronto, we only have one train leaving Sarnia every day .
After living in Regina, Calgary, and Vancouver - I hate London. It's ugly and has nothing to offer. Me and my kids are bored all the time. I've never once driven around London and thought to myself "that's really beautiful." Can't wait to move back out west some day.
I was born here and that's what I want for my family, Saskatchewan and Alberta are looking VERY appealing these days.
Why not take 401, then 402 to wonderland rd. to get to Byron from the airport? Better than taking Oxford Street.
Seriously, Oxford gets ya right there!!
@@cherylblancher5984 Yeah, of course. But it can be slow/stop and go if its rush hour
London has become the armpit of Toronto
I was born and raised here. Ive lived in MANY different cities, and every provience west of here. It sucks here. Theres no afterhours nightlife, the nightlife we have is mediocre at best. Unless you have large amounts of money, good luck finding anything to do worth doing. The class divide is MASSIVE here. You either have money, or youre poor. Very little middle ground. We have roughly 2000 homeless people on the streets rn and its about to get worse. I am an addictions and homelessness advocate and I promise you this city is falling apart. Its not half of what this dude is saying. This city is horrid and its becoming worse. The crime rate has SKYROCKETED and you cant even wait for a bus without being stabbed now. Dont come here. Save your money and go somewhere worth moving
Dang!😮
I'm a local, your speaking FACTS homie.
He's a real-estate agent so what you expect, he's part of the problem with this city and I guarantee he don't care to busy enjoying his % cut.