It's the southernmost neighbourhood in Mississauga, not south of it. I live and work (in IT) here. I can walk to several award winning restaurants within a couple minutes from my office at the marina here. Just look on Google Maps, this place is more walkable than most of TO and my rent is <$1000.

I will not argue: your rent beats Toronto's. Oh God, this housing market.

My rent is the exception and not the rule, even here. I feel your pain.

> You had to drive at least five minutes from my office to get anywhere

Five whole minutes, my word. Not sure how you survived as long as you did.

If you don't live or work in a walkable area, or that otherwise makes up for this somehow, this won't sound that awful to you. As a native Texan, this sort of thing didn't sound that bad to me in general. But once you work somewhere where a 5 minute WALK will net you two dozen food options, it's a big shift in your quality of life, as far as work lunch goes.

It takes me about 5 minutes to walk from my desk to my car. Then another 5-15 minutes to drive for food. Then a minute or two parking and walking to the restaurant - if I'm lucky. If I wanted to go somewhere popular during the lunch rush, or that has shitty parking, maybe that's 5-10 minutes finding a parking spot and walking.

It doesn't seem like a huge deal, but it really can be.

I think the issue is with being forced to drive instead of just being able to walk.

walk to the car, drive 5 min, find parking. same in reverse. at least 30-40 min wasted. esp during the winter.

i hate commuting to downtown toronto, but it is hard to beat the Path, abundance of pubs/restaurants and constantly bumping into people i used to work with (aka stay in the loop). there is no fricking loop in mississauga.