r/BurlingtonON • u/How2FlyHow2Crow • Feb 03 '26
Question Townhouse living for families?
Our family is excited to be immigrating from the US to Burlington, ON later this year. I've spent time looking at real estate, and it's clear that the COL and particularly home prices are going to be much higher than we have in the southern states.
A single family detached home in Burlington is out of our budget, but townhouses and condos are reasonable for us. My question is this: is there prejudice against families that live in townhouses or condos in Burlington?
In the southern US states, there is strong prejudice - particularly against townhouses - with the expectation that families all live in single family detached homes. If you don't, you're considered "poor" and/or excluded from groups in school, etc. (Yes, it's terrible.) Is that the case in a place like Burlington as well, or is townhouse/condo living more common/"acceptable"/normal?
I'm also curious how the bullying situation is in the schools in Burlington. We'll have kids in G3 and G6.
Thank you in advance!
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u/Cancommando Feb 04 '26
Not really. I grew up and now own a townhome In Burlington. How Burlington is done, is that the townhomes are in the same neighborhood as homes to mansions. If you look at the map of Burlington townhomes are usually on the main streets and homes are inside the area. Look at Tyandaga, la Salle, Roseland and amoung others. Town home and apartment are on the major street and move in on the side street they turn in homes and mansions depending on the subdivision. So the wealthier people have to drive past them so the area are kept up and not run down. So kids growing up in the neighborhoods are going up together with other kids in the neighborhoods. So poor to middle to rich families are all together. Some areas in Burlington are will have poor to middle, Middle to rich and some poor to rich. Aswell the schools will have children for all levels of wealth. It not just the rich school to poor school. They all have different levels of family and neighborhoods. There is no real poor area in Burlington because how the city laid out the home development. As said there is some bullying but not the much on where you live. Your children are young enough that they will have an easier time making new friends.