Summary: Buyers that are being priced out of the Toronto market are increasingly making the decision to buy in secondary cities like Oshawa, Kingsville and Hamilton.

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Move to towns near secondary cities is growing in popularity, Real Estate Agents say

Danielle Bacci's favourite part of her move to near Windsor, Ont., is the lack of traffic along her 15-minute commute to work in nearby Leamington. The 26-year-old bank employee and her partner left Toronto and bypassed the suburbs of the GTA for the affordability of Kingsville, Ont.

"We decided if we're going to go somewhere far we wanted to kind of go somewhere dramatically far where we would change our jobs and everything because we didn't want to keep with our jobs and have a longer commute just for lower housing costs," she said.

Bacci is among the growing number of first-time HomeBuyers relocating long distances to escape the high cost of big-city housing. Kingsville's 360-kilometre distance from Toronto allowed Bacci and boyfriend Andre Portovedo to put their savings towards a house instead of a one-bedroom condo.

The move to towns near secondary municipalities — called exurbs — that are beyond reasonable commuting distances from large urban centres, has been gaining in popularity, says Phil Soper, CEO of Royal LePage.