The Story

Even an offer of a great job isn't enough to entice Ben De Jongg to move his family to Toronto from London, Ont. The reason? After two days of looking, he and his wife concluded that, at an average of $220,000, the cost of a house in Toronto was just too high. In this CBC report, Neil Macdonald says more workers are bypassing the problem by living outside the city and "staring at somebody else's bumper for two hours a day."