想来加拿大，现不知该选择哪个城市，请教新移民来温莎合适否？温莎的房价现是多少啊，10多万能买house么？

It depends. is 100K RMB or Canadian dollars?

这里的生活费用相对来说是低的,若想买房子,那得看你的标准

Immigration! I am not so sure. It all depends on what you are going to do in Canada.

The fact is that Windsor is the best place in Ontario to purchase a house. You can find a house in Windsor for 100K CDN but not in Toronto (At least double that amount). For a normal family, they only need to spend 35 % of income for the house, but compare to Toronto is 50%.

For Jobs, Windsor has the highest unemployment rate in Ontario. But on the other hand, you can try to find a job in Detroit and live in Windsor. I know a lot of friends doing that.
For life style, Windsor is a quiet city. We do not have any night life here.
For studying, it is a good place since you do not have a lot of place to go.
For traveling to USA. Windsor is s a city near Detroit. Around 20 minutes, you can be in the USA.

General facts compare: Windsor VS Toronto

Food: Toronto is cheaper
Housing: Windsor is cheaper
Salary (professional jobs): Toronto is higher
Traffic (public transit): Toronto is better
Traffic (driving): Windsor is better
Insurance: Windsor is cheaper
Studying: Windsor is better
Employment rate: Toronto is better
Shopping: Toronto is better

Many thanks for all your inforamtion.

My LG's major is automotive engineering, and we both work for automotive component company in Shanghai.  My questions are following:

1. Monthly cost for a small family (my daughter is 3 years old)
2. We plan to come Windsor 3 years later, could you give us some suggestion on what we should do/learn more now? (we are 27 years old)

Thank you very much!

Annie

比起多伦多温莎真的是理想选择
   安全 物价低 真的不错
       不过10w买house比较悬

俺还是prefer ToronToooo......

因为有很多人说汉语。。。。

我认为这里会很快发展起来的，这里真的有很大的商业市场

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原帖由 alexdong 于 2006-11-2 02:31 发表
Many thanks for all your inforamtion.

My LG's major is automotive engineering, and we both work for automotive component company in Shanghai.  My questions are following:

1. Monthly cost fo ...

(1) Monthly estimation:

Car insurance: 150-250 depends on your driver license
Rental + utilities: 600-1000 (depends on the size of the house) + 250 - 400 (vary b/c of market rate on gas and electricity)
Food: 350
Travel by bus: 20-100 (depends on how many ticket you need or monthly pass
Travel by car (gas): 80-150 (depends on how far you need to travel)
Misc. expense: 150-300
Phone: 50
Internet: 50
Cable for TV: 60

All cost listed upper are rough estimate. Some may apply to you and some may not.

In that case, you are looking for around $1500 a month.

(2) I would recommend you improve your English. Your salary really depends on your English level. If you have high education in China, but you are very bad in English. You cannot get back to your professional field. You must be well prepared to speak and write fluent English.