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Toronto Families Choosing Downtown Living

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Geoffrey Singer
13 May 2003 - 12:00pm

More and more parents are moving their families downtown to give their children a taste of Toronto.

"Lisa and Rob Voutt and their two daughters, 14 and 12, recently moved to a loft downtown after living in Brampton for seven years. "We moved to suburbia thinking it was the right thing to do for the children," says Lisa Voutt, 35.``Then we realized we were part of a massive formula that just wants community members to drive around in cars and shop at Home Depots and Wal-Marts,'' says Voutt, who owns a software company with her husband. ``I realized this isn't community. This isn't life. We decided to move back.""

Full Story: The city is their playground
Source: The Toronto Star, May 11, 2003
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