goodwill said:
Dear Qorax.
Thanks for the information.
Can u please tell me about Thorncliff area.
Is it crowded and congested?
what about the schools in this area?
Some one suggested me to live there.
Thanks a lot
Thorncliffe Park Neighborhood
Typical Apartment Bldg. in Thorncliffe Park
Thorncliffe residents at a community meet
Thorncliffe residents at a community event
1. Thorncliffe Park is predominantly a muslim neighborhood, which gives it a distinct ethnicity.
2. South Asians constitute 63.5% of its population, mostly from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh.
3. 28% of its residents speak a language other than English/French at home, with the most frequent being Urdu/Hindi, Gujarati and Bengali.
4. Immigrants constitute 66% of the population of this community, with recent immigrants constituting 87%.
5. The neighborhood is chiefly of 34 high-rise and low-rise apartment buildings grouped in and around an oval park.
6. Thorncliffe Park was originally designed for 12,500 residents, but now houses 30,000 in a 2.2 Sq-Km area.
7. Thus undoubtedly, it is a highly congested & overcrowded neighborhood.
8. Half of the area's residents live below LICO [low-income cut-off] according to StatsCan
[which is 3 times higher than the avg for other Toronto neighbourhoods].
9. Meaning? -basically a poorer neighborhood of toronto [thus, its ills & twitches come with it!]
10. Residents usually feel safe in this area, but reported to have concerns at night & walking the by-lanes alone.
11. There r enough schools, both elementary & secondary, though crowded.
12. It is however, well connected by TTC.
13. An UofT study casts serious doubts about this neighborhoods sustainability
[read below].
14. Should I reside there? -in my opinion -
No, unless its ethnicity beckons u.
15. Do many newcomers go there? -
Yes, for sure...
References:
a) http://accessalliance.ca/sites/accessalliance/files/documents/ThorncliffeParkProfiles.pdf
b) http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/learn/newsitems/article/6265
c) http://www.homefinder.ca/demographics/3683
d) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorncliffe_Park
With no malice towards one & all...
Qorax
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Toronto neighbourhood faces crowding and poverty
MIHO TAKAYA
http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/learn/newsitems/article/6265
The new study out of the UofT is highlighting changes in the Toronto's Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood, which is heavily populated with immigrants. Findings have shown that between 2001 and 2006, the Thorncliffe Park community has grown into one of the most populated immigrant neighbourhoods, where the increase of crowding and poverty is severely causing stress and ethnic tensions among its residents.
Additionally, each household has 1.4 bedrooms, on average, compared to 2.7 bedrooms in other areas across the city, but twice as many people sleeping in a bedroom as in the average Toronto household.
The report also predicts that if the population and household numbers continue to grow at the same rate in Thorncliffe Park, residents will not be able to access critical support programs and services, which will prevent them from integrating into Canadian society successfully. 
and comes very handy in my case, as I'm landing mid April. 
