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I was born and raised in small town Ontario. I moved to Toronto in the early 2000s after completing a degree in Finance at the University of Western Ontario. Later, I earned an MBA from the University of Toronto. In 2013, I purchased a townhouse near Jarvis and Bloor where I currently live with my wife and 3 children.
We are surrounded by homelessness. We live near a safe injection site (Casey House); our neighbourhood is littered with used needles and garbage. It is both sad and unsafe.
In the spring of 2024, we attempted to sell our townhouse as we were expecting our third child and we wanted to escape the expense of the city. Days before our listing went up, a development proposal notice was posted directly across the street from us. Nobody wants to live across from a construction site. We received no offers.
In the summer of 2024, a young man was murdered in the alley across the street. Shortly thereafter, our front door was kicked in (seemingly “for fun” – fortunately the perps took off without entering our home). It took Toronto Police almost 45 minutes to arrive on-site, and rather than classifying the incident as a break and enter, the attending officers considered it vandalism.
We have considered renting our home and moving to a rental outside the city, but the protections afforded to landlords are near zero and if we ended up with a bad tenant, we would be financially decimated.
We are trapped in Toronto.