Hi everyone and welcome to another video on my channel my name is Busi and this is a space
where I talk all things life abroad as a South African living in Canada as well as self-care
on today's video i am taking you through a town called Oakville that is in the province of Ontario
it is the town that i stay in with my family and it's a town that we found because we looked
through the list of the top 10 places to stay in Ontario and it was part of that top 10 list and
still is today in 2021 Oakville has a population of around 210 000 people and these are the
minority stats of Oakville in terms of how many people stay in Oakville that are part of the BIPOC
community so if you are looking to move to Canada and you're wondering what are some of the places
that you can stay in maybe Oakville might be a place that interests you so come along on a drive
with me and make sure that you have your audio on so you can hear some of the stats that I'm going
to share and information that i will share as i'm driving through different parts of Oakville
now there are portions of Oakville that are by the lake and you can visit parks such as
lakeside park you will see that they are houses that are just next to the lake
you can walk or you can just sit and read in your car and enjoy the lake there is also an Oakville
boat club if you are into that kind of a thing as you can see here they are packed up for the winter
Oakville also does have a museum which is a great place for you to learn about
the history of the town what you see here is the field of a public elementary school
and this is an example of a newer school that you're seeing on your screen right
now I will also show you what a slightly older school looks like currently in oval
so this is an elementary public school that is a little bit older and it's in a
neighbourhood that has been around much longer than the previous school that you've just seen
and right across the street from one clear elementary public school is a high school
so right now we are outside one of the secondary schools here in Oakville.
Oakville has currently 27 elementary schools including five french immersion only schools
and they have six high schools so this is one of the six high schools that are in Oakville
what you will also find in Oakville along with a number of other towns in the country
are catholic schools so these are also public schools so if you are somebody who is a catholic
they are catholic schools Oakville has a downtown area that has a number of different shops whether
you are looking for a bakery a place to do your lashes a butchery different kinds of banks
whatever you may be looking for the downtown area of Oakville has it including other facilities that
the people of the town may need such as the Oakville public library as an example
and not very far from downtown Oakville you will find the Oakville GO station and this is a place
where you will come to catch the go train the gold train I can compare to the how train in
South Africa so it helps you get between different towns much faster and if you would need to go
to downtown Toronto you would most likely take the go train if you're not driving
now there's different kinds of houses in Oakville and places that you can stay and there
are a lot of attached type of style housing that you'll find in certain areas and you'll also see
that there is a lot of development still going on in Oakville we have been staying
in Oakville for over two years now and since we got to Oakville and even now there's constantly
areas that are being developed and there's a lot of space for even more development to take place
so when you look at the highways in Oakville traffic is much much much less now that
there's the coronavirus and a lot more people are working from home so the roads move a lot smoother
and what you're seeing here is one of the neighbourhoods that have been around for
much longer and you will see more Bangalore style type of houses in these kinds of
neighbourhoods and the Bangalore style type of houses are the ones that look like these
now this is an example of one of the public hospitals that are in Oakville this is a newer
public hospital it's in an area that is still very much under development
and has a lot of newer buildings I've been in the inside of this hospital and it is
a very very beautiful clean and great hospital if I must say and there is the very famous legal
red light turn one thing you will find a lot of in Oakville is shopping centers so shopping centers
like this that also will have a number of shops that you would need so similar to shops that you
might find downtown Oakville there are a lot of shops that exist in various parts of Oakville so
that people don't have to travel longer than say five minutes just to get to a place where they can
find something they need so these kinds of shopping centers will have your grocery stores
places to buy fast food if you want they'll also have some of them will also have walk-in clinics
they'll have banks so you really do not have a need to go super super far from where you would
be staying there will most likely be a shopping center that's very close to where you live
and there will also be smaller shops in the area that you live that's not necessarily a shopping
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what some of the places are that you have considered to live in when you move to Canada or
if you are already in Canada which part of Canada do you live in what town do you live in and just
share how you're finding that experience I will see you on the next video. Thank you for watching.