Mississauga

West of Toronto and wrapped around Pearson International Airport, Mississauga has grown from a collection of villages into Ontario's third largest city, with a rising downtown skyline and a long stretch of Lake Ontario shoreline.

Square One anchors City Centre, one of the country's largest shopping complexes, surrounded by the Absolute World towers, known locally as the Marilyn Monroe towers for their curved balconies, along with the Living Arts Centre and Sheridan College. On the lake, Port Credit keeps a village feel with a marina, GO station and a growing restaurant scene along the Credit River.

Streetsville, another former village now inside city limits, holds onto a heritage main street along the Credit River, and Erin Mills, a large planned community in the west, mixes established family homes with a campus of the University of Toronto Mississauga. Clarkson, closer to the lake, offers established streets and its own GO station near Rattray Marsh.

GO Transit's Lakeshore West and Milton lines connect Mississauga directly to downtown Toronto, and Pearson Airport anchors a large corporate and logistics employment base within city limits. For buyers, Mississauga offers a wide range of housing, from lakefront character homes to new towers around Square One, generally at a discount to comparable Toronto addresses.