There are outlet stores where you can get clothes cheap as small as 4 dollars, bring your things from nigeria, even your blanket , shop at dollar stores for utilities they have everything for one dollar, spoon, cream, even some little tiny buckets, if you are coming during the cold season please dress well and wear a lot of socks, bring long sleeves, for food.
Food is quiet expensive so make sure you shop when they are doing promo, you save more sometimes the price is bought half price or less
just as toks said, we use the bus and the fare in brampton is nice we can use the ticket at least 4 times. And car costs and maintainance can ruin you.
Then also landing in toronto you meet nigerians but there are lesser job opportunities, the farther you are from the central the higher your job opportunity. Please wait for your PR card before you leave as that will take from 6 weeks to 2 months. Ours came 2 months after so don't plan for a short stay in canada if you plan on going to nigeria after a while. Make it 3-6 months.
Don't make phone your priority get a sim witout contract and FIDO works on any phone you don't have to unlock a phone for it. Fido sells that and to call your family at home they sell long distance dollar cards for about 2.25 dollars
Avoid going to high end stores for your furniture , the indians have affordable things, we got ours around 400 dollars unlike the usual 1000 dollars and up
On thursdays people throw things away, for the thash people to pick up, sometimes the are very good and in good conditions like sofa's chairs table, my dear don't be shy to take it. I picked a table up which was stil very good, and costs about 300 dollars...more to come...
