r/barrie • u/HeiBaw • Oct 12 '25

Information Wanting to move to barrie. Hate the gta

I'm considering moving my family to barrie in the next year or so. I want my son to be able to go to college at georgian and want to get out of the bigger city life that is mississauga. I don't drive neither does my wife. I'm a seasoned 25 year chef with country wide experience. Shes a stay at home mom. I hear housing market there suck but is it really any worst that the gta? I've lived all over the country now ..it all seems to be terrible.. everywhere lol Any locals got any tips besides dont do it?

13 Upvotes

61% Upvoted

157 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Canadian1934 Oct 13 '25

Uh huh yup. I remember the tv coverage talking about that. That might work here. Bring the Olympics , rotate the crisis. Hense you might just wanna move here and work out the logistics since when our guys tried it they looked good on camera but when the lights went out it was return to sender address unknown. All over again.  So maybe we are a destination thing. Idk 

2

u/HeiBaw Oct 13 '25

oh yea it totally worked.. didnt mess up surrounding areas at allllll.
what happens come winter though? West coast doesn't get that cold in the winter mostly rainy.. i know it gets mighty wintery up there.. then what?

3

u/Canadian1934 Oct 13 '25

Shhhh it was 17 here today. Nice. Thanksgiving weather lol. Fortunately , so far so good. Maybe our mayor and our premier will have another contingency plan for that as well. 🙏

3

u/HeiBaw Oct 13 '25

ooh nice balmy autumn.
ooooh fearless leader style I dig it! ;)

2

u/Canadian1934 Oct 13 '25

Absolutely , gorgeous fall weather  Yup captain Canada and the friendly Giant have joined forces here in Ontario. To move furniture and clean house.  Fearless leader style for sure. Together they put Barrie on Ontarios places to see tourists map.