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Coming from L.A. I think you would best adapt to Vancouver or Toronto, both of which are great cities with lots to offer. Ft. Mac?? LOL |
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coming from L.A., and going straight to Fort Mc will be like time travel into a distant planet !!!
if you want to keep the same style, Vancouver is probably your best bet... buy a rain coat though one poster was right, Canada is huge and you'll find everything and anything as far as climate, people, lifestyle... |
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Calgary is way more vibrant as a city than Edmonton. There are tons of places to go and lots of ethnic diversity. The pictures I posted certainly speak volumes. Quote:
That is the misconception. I have been to LA several times and the taxes over there are astronomical. Way higher than here in Alberta. Sales tax alone was about 10% or so. I heard people pay up to 60% taxes altogether there in the wake of the state out of money now. But, then again Alberta has the lowest taxes in Canada. Only 5% GST and that's it. No HST or anything. My income tax is also in below 30% per annum and I am close to $100K (mind you I have a dependent wife and she is studying as an immigrant doctor so we are a single-income family so taxes are lower for us).
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08-19-2010, 10:11 PM | #26 |
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What's wrong with Fort Mac.
Hard working people and some of the best Cod Tongue west of Nfld I go there all the time. People dont forget FMM is the engine that drives AB that helps pay the bills in Canada. AB transfers out billions every year back to the fed gov't to support the rest of Canada Enough of politics Calgary is nice. I wouldnt live there, no thx. I'll stick with Etown. Calgary is becoming the new west GTA, in good ways and bad imop |
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08-19-2010, 10:56 PM | #27 | |
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Where else in the world does a Tradesperson make a doctors wage??? I realize it is not the best place in the country to live but it is definitely not the worse and I for one like it here..... it has been my home for 10 years now. I came here with only a suitcase and now I am living very well....... Thanks to Fort Mac! Thanks for pointing this out to people Glenn. |
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No doubt Ft. Mac is a great place to make a good living but this guy and his family are coming from L.A., and they probably have never seen a pickup truck with bull's balls hanging from the hitch let alone a city full of them.
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I totally agree with you it would be quite a culture shock.
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My favorite city/place to live is Vancouver. Beautiful city, nice people, hot girls, awesome food, did I mention beautiful city? People's complaints of Van indicating cloudy days in winter and high housing costs... I'd rather it be cloudy for several months out of the year than have frost bitten nuts. Housing cost is high but being Calgary resident now its getting very very close in comparison.
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08-20-2010, 07:57 AM | #32 | |
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i came from France to Edmonton, and 6 months later straight to Fort Mc on a 2-day notice... it WAS a shock... i feel like Fort Mc still has some of that Wild Wild West spirit, modern style obviously... that's maybe what i like about it, cant wait to go back !! |
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Yeah I agree FMM would be a shock for someone from LA
Ottawa is good choice, smaller city, good weather and sorta of a coastal feel even though it is inland. Gonna get HST or PST everywhere but here is AB |
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Funny thing about Ottawa and Edmonton is I remember many NHL player's wives refusing to allow their husbands to sign for those two teams because they didn't want to live in those "boring" cities. I couldn't believe their quotes actually made the papers....freakn spoiled sportswives.
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08-20-2010, 09:29 AM | #35 | |
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I'd recommend Halifax though..... I am currently vacationing in Halifax and enjoying every day. Halifax has really nice weather in the summers, not too much snow in the winters, lots of lakes, lots of nice beaches on the coast, Ocean Front Property for a relative bargain compared to most places and so much history and culture. |
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I lived in Corktown for over 5 years, just south of Regent Park (considered one of the worst areas in the city). I never felt threatened the entire time I lived there, even walking home late at night. While a lot of the folks in that area are poor, by no means are they criminals. Compared to crime in the US in particular, Toronto is a very safe city. One major downside i'll admit is that as Maple Leaf fans, Torontonians are all suckers. We pay the highest hockey ticket prices in the world, and the Leafs have no shot at winning the Stanley Cup any time in the next 5 years. But somehow, the ACC is sold out for every game.... |
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True, but not much going on in the Alberta NHL teams either.
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Gas is f*@ked everywhere but our taxes here are Uber f*@ked.
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I just drove through a big part of the US and yes the gas is a bit cheaper, ~$50 in the US to fill from empty instead of ~$60 in Canada on average (The dollar is pretty well par now most of the time so the exchange no longer makes the US expensive for us Canadians). One thing the US has is a stupid number of Toll Roads..... I paid ~$30-$40 in tolls on the turnpikes from Illinois to the Canadian Border in Maine. I don't mind paying tolls either but in Canada the Toll roads generally don't allow trucks on them and traffic is not too bad. In the US The Turnpikes were blocked with trucks and the traffic was stupid! |
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Crime rates are a joke in Canada when compared to the US.
I have lived in Miami, Boston, Maine, Chicago and now Atlanta and I always am aware of where and the potential threat in these places(except Maine), but hardly think about it when Im back home in Toronto.
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