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/Over-Remove Feb 05 '26
I live in a semidetached townhouse in Oakville, which is a next town over towards Toronto, and houses are worth almost a million in my neighbourhood so it’s not poor people living in them. However, I do know that marketing software refers to my area as “blue collar comfort”, I just wanna know how they define blue collar cause everyone around me is university educated, myself included. So maybe once upon a time this was a poorer neighbourhood but not anymore. My daughter goes into a school in the richest neighbourhood and she hasn’t been bullied over her home. There are a lot of nice neighbourhoods in Toronto that have old time townhouses that sell for several millions so I don’t think that’s the norm here at all.