Comunitech's Top 10 Reasons to Live Here

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• Inexpensive housing
• Comparative salaries and wages to Ottawa and Toronto
• Highly competitive cost of living

• There are more than 3,000 acres of parks and six conservation areas
• The region boasts 22 golf courses
• The Grand River is the world's best managed waterway

• Over 500 tech companies are located in Waterloo region including Google, IBM, Shopify, Desire to Learn, OpenText and more

• Opportunities for you to partner in tech, insurance, not-for-profit, education and service businesses
• Over 30 minor sports organizations in the region as well as music, arts, drama, museums and more

• Trendy lofts, revitalized warehouse districts and new buildings in downtown cores
• Three urban core locations (Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo)
• Suburban neighbourhoods - old and new
• Rural country settings minutes from town complete with a thriving Mennonite community
• Eighty per cent of residents live within a 30-minute drive to work

• Waterloo was voted 2007's Intelligent Community of the Year by New York's Intelligent Communities Forum

• The local airport is international and offers several flights to many destinations
• It's a one-hour drive to Canada's busiest airport, Toronto Pearson International
• Pending traffic, it's a one-hour drive to downtown Toronto

• The region is home to more than 60 arts, culture and heritage festivals and galleries

It's all here

• Cool jobs. Hot technology. Top companies. What more could you ask for?

• The area is home to three top universities - University of Waterloo, University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University - and one of Ontario's premier colleges - Conestoga College
• Fifty-thousand students annually