“People are so happy when I tell them that they don't have to go down south for their ear surgeries-I can do it right here.”
MACMASTER REALTY SAULT STE.MARIE FULL
“The neat thing about practising here is that you really can explore the full depth of practice and not just the breadth,” she says. It can be difficult to attract doctors to the North, but she knew working in a smaller city meant she’d get a chance to do more, sooner.
Rebelo also knew moving to the Sault would be the right move for her career.
But people went out of their way to make him feel welcome, including the car salesman who sold the couple a second vehicle-and invited Mike to join his softball team. “It's a bit of a leap of faith, place that you don't know anybody,” he says. In fact, Mike says the community made his own transition much easier. That feeling didn’t go away when they actually moved to the Soo. “I felt like, I can't imagine that I'm not going to see these people again. “The longer I was there, the more I got this sense that I needed to come back,” says Rebelo, an ears nose and throat specialist. That is, until she spent two weeks visiting Sault Area Hospital. So, you know, sure, I’ll look into it, but I didn’t think too much of it,” she says. “My initial thought was, I’ve never been to Northern Ontario ever. Jenna Rebelo holds her son Felix in the field of a Sault Ste. One day while on mat leave, she got a text message about a job opportunity in the Soo.ĭr. The couple had been living in their hometown while she finished her last year of residency for medical school at McMaster University. 2019 with her husband, Mike, and their one-year-old son, Felix. Shukla isn’t the only millennial putting down roots in Sault Ste. According to a 2019 report¹ from Public Policy Forum and Pathways to Prosperity, 73.4 per cent of the immigrants who arrived in the city between 20 were still living there five years later. And these transplants are sticking around. What’s more, home ownership is achievable in the northern city the Canadian Real Estate Association reported that the average cost of a home in the Sault in March 2019 was $184,810. Marie has become an attractive option-it’s affordable, welcoming and laid-back. With real estate prices rising in cities like Toronto and its surrounding suburbs, Sault Ste. Locals have always recognized the city’s adventurous charms, including world-class fly fishing, kilometres of cross-country ski trails and easy access to canoe tripping-but now a growing number of adventure enthusiasts and even less outdoorsy city folk are relocating to Northern Ontario. Marie has all the amenities of a larger Canadian city, with the safety of a smaller one. suppliedĪs a vibrant community of 73,000, Sault Ste. Piyush and Harleen Puaar Shukla pose together, having happily settled in the Soo.
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