Escape From Toronto To Willow Beach, Lake Simcoe – You Can Do It Too!

Two years ago, the Mrs. and I escaped from Toronto to a small community on the southeast shore of Lake Simcoe. We used to live in a highrise condo development in west Toronto where all we heard on the balcony were sirens and the rumble of the city. Even on the best days, the horizon in Toronto had a brown tinge and by the time I finished clawing my way through the morning traffic it took me 65 minutes to get to work on a good day.

Now I commute to work from our home in Georgina Township on the south shore of Lake Simcoe and it takes me 50 minutes on a bad day: but there are no bad days when you get to come home to an oasis near the water. You couldn’t pay enough money to get us to move back to the city. When we sit out in the backyard after work we hear birds. I never realized how many birds there are until we moved out of the city. On a summer evening we see stars. Real stars like we never saw them before.

My neighbours Marcel and Kathy purchased and renovated the two homes listed for sale on this blog, and when they put them up for sale I offered to set up this blog to let people know about the homes, and also about the community where we live. In the next little while I’m going to tell you about why my wife and I love our new life in this town, how we made our decision to move here and some of the attractions of living in Willow Beach.

I hope you enjoy our articles and photos of Willow Beach. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section and we’ll try to answer them.

That’s it for my first article. Now I’m going to take a walk along the lakeshore and unwind. I’ll try to post a new article every few days. See that photo at the top? That’s Willow Beach at the end of the street where the homes are for sale.

Given a choice, where to you want to go for a walk after work? …. Willow Beach or Yonge Street, Toronto?

I thought so!

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time.