What is the most important criteria for choosing a neighbourhood in Toronto?

[Brandon_Grant]

Maybe you could also simply ask, what is the best neighbourhood, but more interesting would be why did you choose a certain neighbourhood over the others.
Which neighbourhood did you choose, and what were the most important reasons for your decision?

[Laurinda_Shaver]

To me, its about accessibility. How close is to to walk to everything? How easy is it to get to transit? What is the flavour of the neighbourhood and are there restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries that reflect what I like. There are so many neighbourhoods in Toronto. Lost to choose from.

[Athir_Nuaimi]

The most important criteria for a startup is access to great staff. And that means you are located in a neighbourhood with decent transportation links. A lot of startups are located in the downtown core (bounded by Bathurst on the West, Jarvis on the East and Bloor on the North). This also has the added benefit that its easy for teams to socialize after work as there is a vibrant restaurant and bar scene in the downtown core. With all the startups, there is also a lot of meetups each night. It all becomes self-perpetuating with each benefit feeding into the other.

Having said this, you can make a startup work in other places, its all about getting the right team together. Some companies prefer to be a bit away from the core as it’s also fairly competitive for hiring. Best of Luck.

[shantomo]

In your current neighbourhood, what is currently important to you? What were the criteria that you used to make the decision to choose where you currently live? Use that as your initial criteria and expand it as you research Toronto neighbourhoods. BlogTO's redesign has made it fairly easy for you to research the different neighbourhoods. Some things that seem to be important considerations:

• Commute time (to and from work)
• Commute type (e.g. public transit or car)
• How close you are to neighbourhood amenities (e.g. grocery stores, restaurants, shops)
• If you have a dog, you might think about whether there's a park nearby
• If you have kids, you might think about what type of schools you want your kids to go to (it's by district here)
• Safety (Toronto is pretty safe but there's areas that is known not to be as safe)
• Noise level (middle of the city, residential or a bit of both)