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These Ontario Cities Have The Cheapest Rent & The Prices Will Have You Fleeing Toronto

Smaller Ontario cities are having their moment in the limelight.
These Ontario Cities Have The Cheapest Rent & The Prices Will Have You Fleeing Toronto
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If you're looking to save money on rental costs, you're likely going to want to consider moving further away from Toronto — perhaps into some smaller Ontario cities.

PadBlogger has just released their March 2021 Canadian Rent Report and a few Ontario cities were ranked as some of the cheapest for one and two-bedroom rentals in metropolitan areas of Canada.

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Windsor, London, Kingston, and St. Catharines were ranked the cheapest cities in Ontario for rentals, with one-bedrooms going for a median of $1,100, $1,230, $1,280, and $1,300, respectively  — a far cry from Toronto's $1,750.

The same four cities also snagged the rankings for the cheapest average two-bedroom rental prices in Ontario.

Ontario cities that, well, aren't Toronto are having a moment in real estate — last week, Cannington, Orléans, and Clarington were named Ontario's most Googled cities for buying a home.

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    • Abby Neufeld
      Abby Neufeld was a writer at Narcity Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Communications at the University of Victoria. Her past work has been published in The Toronto Star, Bitch Media, Canadian Dimension, This Magazine, and more. In 2019, Abby co-founded The New Twenties, an environmentally-focused literary and arts magazine.

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