The GTA sucks Toronto/Peel

Ontario sucks! But at least it's not as cold as Manitoba..

I unfortunately was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. While I was growing up I loved living here. The houses were nice with lots of land, the people were friendly and everyone on the street would get together for BBQ’s. Halloween would come and the entire area would have lights on,  pumpkins carved, and we would walk for hours getting candy from nice people. Taxes weren’t too bad, houses were fairly cheap. Living was fairly cheap, and my mother stayed home to be a mother.

Now I’m older and I have my own family. I live in the same area I grew up, and my wife works while my son stays with my mother in law. Reason? Day care is like $900+ a month. My house is a detached 1 garage, 1 car driveway with 2 feet of grass between my house and the house next to me. My house costs $50,000 more then what my parents owned and my entire house could fit into our old family room. Property taxes cost me $250 a month to live in an area so heavily populated that it takes me 45 minutes to drive to work in the morning when I actually only live 15 minutes from my office.

The PST + GST taxes are stupid as hell. Everything I buy here costs me as much as it would be to buy 2 of the same items across the border in Buffalo. Gas costs more because I live in a rural area. My auto insurance premiums are crazy! When you have never had an accident and have been driving for 15 years and you still are paying $250 a month on 1 vehicle then add another $175 on another vehicle and house insurance $25. That’s $450 a month just on insurance because I live within the GTA.

My neighbors don’t talk to anyone on the street. In fact all my neighbors don’t seem to speak much English so even if they are nice people I wouldn’t know. My monthly salary is taxed soooo much that I cant understand how I always seem to owe the government at the end of every year? I think about over $10,000 in taxes a year and think, what am I paying for? Because I own a house I cant claim taxes at the end of the year. But if I rent I can ..???  WTF ?  Now that I’m married I pay even more in taxes. I purchased two new vehicles, and I could purchase the same vehicles in the USA for $10,000 cheaper even though these vehicles are actually built in the city I actually live in.

Great, Let's get the fuck outta here!

I have learned that you can’t get ahead in the GTA and Peel. If you want to get ahead you need to have your own company, or scam everything you can to get ahead. I want to give my son things that I had when I was growing up. I want him to live a life of freedom and fun and be able to do what ever he wants. If he wants to play sports I want to be able to pay for his right to play those sports. But really does that make any sense? Kids should be allowed to play what ever they want without having to worry about if mom and dad cant afford it. I feel that I make pretty good money, and my wife make fairly good money too. However the taxing to death and crazy charges that we have to deal with living in a city and province that has nothing good to offer is unbelievable. I know back in the 70’s and 80’s cars were cheaper, houses were cheaper, everything was cheaper. I used to be able to buy a bag of chips for 75 cents, a bottle of pop for 75 cents and it was almost a litre. Now its a $1.75 for a 500 ml bottle of pop, and $1.25 for a bag of small chips. They are making it very hard for people to live. I have been looking into moving to another part of Ontario, where the property taxes are really low and the houses are dirt cheap and the land is huge, and everyone on the street knows your name and says hi to you as you leave in the morning to go to work. I have realized that’s the life I want for my son. I want him to ride his bike and play with other kids on the street and be able to enjoy life as much as he can. Living here at the moment sucks! I am tired of paying to live in an area like this and when I move out another person will move in that cant speak any English and will have 15 people living in a 3 bedroom house. Half of them will live off welfare and still work for under the table money. The rest will have legit jobs owning there own business scamming the government and driving around in $100,000 cars.

Good luck Peel when I move out I wont ever return. I don’t go to Toronto for anything, it’s useless and I refuse to give you my hard earned money.

I’m LeeRoy ……FUCK YOU TORONTO ..AND UP YOURS PEEL