My brother in law is relocating to Toronto from Pune, India for two years with his family. He has never moved from Pune before and asked me for some advice.

Since I have never been to Canada, I was hoping to get some help from the experts on this board.

He has some basic questions:

1) Housing -- how much and how to get around finding a place to stay?
2) Credit cards -- Is it similar to the US systems -- does he need to establish a credit history or score first?
3) Car -- does he really need one to get around? How is the public transportation system?

Any other advice would be great.

Thanks in advance.