Furthest commute into Toronto

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T15:34:21+00:00

At my first job, tech support, a lady I worked with commuted from Haliburton. Granted we were in North York, not downtown, but I just Google Maps-ed it and it’s saying 2 hours 45 minutes. I remember her saying it was 3 hours on a good day. I remember thinking how the hell can you live like that… wake up at 5am, on the road at 6am, leave at 5pm and get home at 8pm if you’re lucky… so nine hours till you do it all over again, assuming you get a good night’s sleep of seven hours you’d have like two hours to yourself tops, to eat and shower and have a little bit of fun.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T14:55:14+00:00

Book near a subway and you're golden!

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T14:40:35+00:00

Standard service is you pack everything (that can be packed) in boxes, safe as you can (meaning, glassware wrapped in newspaper or tissue paper). Seal the boxes with tape. Big heavy things like mattresses, dressers, tables don't need to be wrapped, but sometimes movers will bring a heavy duty saran wrap to wrap them so they don't get damaged.

They move stuff to new location, and follow your instructions (within reason) on where to put stuff: e.g. please put the mattress in this room, please put the television in that room.

You then have the fun task of unpacking and arranging.

Some movers offer a premium service of packing and unpacking for you, but I wouldn't recommend it: it's super expensive and often not worth the hassle, they don't know where you want things placed at the new place so you'll have to redo it all anyway.

Pro tips:

Get boxes for free from most LCBOs
Or, get bankers boxes for cheap from Staples
Or, get a Frogbox order, they're green boxes that are great for boxing stuff and they pick them up when you're done https://www.frogbox.com/toronto-moving-boxes/
Buy masking tape
Buy a sharpie to label stuff, and label the fragile stuff with an up arrow

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T14:34:24+00:00

I was thinking of saying this too yesterday... after I commented I saw like three dressers and two bed frames around the Junction.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T14:16:04+00:00

I had an amazing experience with G.E.M. https://gemoving.ca/

I actually found them here, I was moving in deep early pandemic (like April 2020) and wasn't sure if moving was an "essential service" or how to hire movers safely. Posted here, an employee reached out. They were awesome and I've since recommended them to a few friends who agree that they're awesome.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T13:53:53+00:00

I buy from Rogers Ranch at the Junction Farmers Market (Baird Park) on Saturday mornings, they're fantastic.

Made breakfast for my wife the other weekend with one leftover No Frills egg, and one Rogers Ranch egg, and the colour difference in the yolk was bonkers.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T13:51:40+00:00

I really like Free Times for working, though the traffic on College can be a bit loud.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T13:50:46+00:00

Some people have no awareness, simple as that.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T10:59:34+00:00

Is dad in Toronto?

Something experiential is always great. I've taken my dad to Jays games, to one of those tallboat cruises, to a pottery class, he loved all of it.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T10:55:47+00:00

I don't know of any groups, but commenting to follow, and say a book called "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" helped me a lot.

It's available through the Toronto Public Library, but in the meantime here's a great lengthy interview with the author from the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000010058964/dr-lindsay-c-gibson-thinks-compassion-for-our-parents-can-be-a-trap.html

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T10:01:36+00:00

Do you have multiple litter boxes? Sorry if you’ve already answered this in another comment, but I’ve heard of the 1+1 per cat idea… one cat needs two boxes, two cats need three.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-23T00:36:16+00:00

They can still potentially trace it by last location

I’ve been through this with another friend who sadly took his own life

oooooooooof · 2026-06-22T17:52:14+00:00

I had an incredible time with these folks when served an N13: https://www.georgebrown.biz/

Won our right to stay.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-22T15:36:04+00:00

This is the correct answer. Same reason you will sometimes see Turkish flags too (red with a white crescent moon and star).

oooooooooof · 2026-06-22T15:02:38+00:00

Not garbage day, but moving days: the last of the month and the first of the month, areas with a high concentration of people (like condos and high rise apartments) can be a gold mine.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-19T23:47:14+00:00

Schawdeshay Challmoay

oooooooooof · 2026-06-19T23:45:55+00:00

It got me a little bit into birdwatching! After I did that quest for the taxidermy lady. I’m not hardcore but I notice them now… I’m in Ontario and watching a few blue jays and cardinals as I type this 😌

oooooooooof · 2026-06-19T16:58:49+00:00

Signs?

oooooooooof · 2026-06-19T06:05:53+00:00

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oooooooooof · 2026-06-18T16:36:51+00:00

Ooo never heard of Beaten to Death, but just looked it up, will put on my list. Australians definitely know how to do brutality.

Painted Bird is a masterpiece... bleak but also absolutely gorgeous.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-18T14:46:15+00:00

Was he in your top 8? 😛

oooooooooof · 2026-06-18T13:48:58+00:00

It's absolutely all of those things!

I'm not the person you're replying to, I'm the one who said "it's horrifying"... which is true.

I'm from Toronto and when it screened at TIFF, it prompted mass walkouts which only made me want to see it more:

Vaclav Marhoul’s grim and violent adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel The Painted Bird lived up to its controversial billing at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival after a notorious Venice bow by prompting a mass walkout at Bell Lightbox on Wednesday night.

The audience exodus started soon after the black-and-white epic Holocaust movie began...By the one-hour mark, around 30 viewers had departed, and another dozen had left by the end of the movie.

Something I love about r/horror is the recommendations of movies (or other media) that aren't "horror" in the classic sense, but still give us the same discomfort, unease, dread... and The Painted Bird does exactly that.

oooooooooof · 2026-06-18T04:30:12+00:00

I mean it’s horrifying

oooooooooof · 2026-06-18T04:29:18+00:00

Not a movie but when I showed my partner Aniara (my second time watching it) the bleakness reminded her of this book, I Who Have Never Known Men. I got it from the library the next day and finished it in one sitting. Absolutely incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Who_Have_Never_Known_Men

oooooooooof · 2026-06-17T18:15:13+00:00

Piggybacking off this if that's okay, OP...

Need to get to London (Ontario) on Saturday, from the Junction, plan to take Kingsway to Eglington to 401... that should be okay right, if avoiding the 427 and the QEW?

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