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>No decent food, no after work fun, just suburb hell for miles around.

???

I live in Port Credit (south Mississauga)... I can tell you absolutely that is not the case. Also it would be hard to name a culture that didn't have food here.

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Specifically my food problem in Mississauga was that lunch sucked. You had to drive at least five minutes from my office to get anywhere, and then it was just fast food. Maybe go a bit further to streetsville, get something a bit better. It was just corporate mid rises and suburbs everywhere else!

In Toronto, I am walking distance from everything after work, plus the subway to get me home. Port Credit may be cool, but it can't compete with that. Also, as you said that's south of Mississauga- again, we're going to have to drive everywhere.

That's just not there lifestyle I want, and very few in my office did- which was why we pushed so hard for a downtown office instead.

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.

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.

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.

SOTI is up the street from where I used to live. The area is pretty boring: highlights are the Old Britannia Schoolhouse and Highland Farms.

Depending where you are and the state of the roads at that time, port credit could be an hours (or more) drive away. Some way to spend your lunch break!

A bit exaggerated, but you're largely correct. I was more countering that we have no food and no nightlife, although I do live and work here.

I understand the argument in SOTIs case because their office is in the middle of nowhere, although there are restaurants very close to it.

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