The culture is such that I'll be motivated to help out others that are getting started when I'm more established.  

Japanese culture is really strong and the saying "the nail that sticks out gets pounded" applies.

I toured their properties and neighborhoods, and learned about their culture, met most of their staff, and interviewed with key personal.

A racist police chief creating a culture of oppression?

Churches, alumni, fraternal & social work agencies, or organizations typically, along with thousands of arts, education, cultural & industry specific associations make a lot of effort to donate, or subsidize housing---in particular. if your mortgage is $ 300K at 6% apr using $ 2,500 a month in the first few years nearly $ 18K will be deductible. if you're renting to some tenants certain programs will filter far more inducements to both you and the tenant. obviously there are reasons that you'd most likely want to own units that cost $ 60K and rent for $ 1,500 a month to make even more sense out of these opportunities. when i was 23 my best friend a newly mented attorney, who lived with me pursued buying a 2 family home that the City of NY's Housing Development Preservation (HPD) offered us for $ 1. it needed about $ 150K of improvements. we were supposed to borrow the $ 150K at 1% interest under a very aggressive renovation schedule that returned the property to it's fully taxed  assessed value in 90 to 120 days; or we'd have to pay 2% apr for the sums we elected to borrow from an HPD aligned lender. my income was 3 times the lawyers; and i wanted him to live in another 26 unit apartment building we were developing under an even more lucrative program that allowed us to borrow $ 500K at 1%, if we ("I") put down $ 25K. i wound up renovating the apartment building on my credit cards and we walked away from the 2 family: due to the lawyer's reluctance to move into the apartment building. i actually felt that having him in my own apartment really confused the women that visited me.

That's backwards from how it usually works in small operations, especially to start with.There's an awful lot of cultural baggage that goes along with doing the renovation work.

This might work there.Another reasonable location would be somewhere in the Hamilton / Cambridge / Waterloo /  Guelph polygon:- Lots of available space- 15 - 45 min access to high tech centers, culture, urban centers - Growing safe communities- etc.Anyway - well above my ability to influence.Oren

The social and cultural scene is great.

Depends on the culture ... sometimes a red door means something MUCH different ;-)

Politically, we consider our selves very liberal, love to be closer to culture and arts.