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>> Notice how far out the family had to go to make it work: fully insulating walls, wood heat, and a large garden among other factors.

On the plus side, I'm guessing that the sale of their Toronto home left them with a lot of budget to do that work though.

IIRC, the average selling price of a home in Toronto is floating around $1M these days, and the school cost "only" $190K.

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And not just any part of Toronto - High Park. They were pretty well off to start with going with that as the base.

Good for them on using their money to fund a great learning/growing experience for their kids.

You're both assuming that their mortgage was paid off or that they owned the house outright.

I lived two streets down from there. High Park has both very posh houses and not-so-posh (as in: derelict) ones, it's very much a mixed bag there, especially on the North-East side.

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