The Hat is actually quite a nice place. I could easily live there.

 

The Hat is too hot. Come to Grande Prairie, hot during the day and nice and cool at night. Plus you would have to be a quadrapalegic lepper not to find work up here.

 

true.....but I like the actual city more in the Hat....

 

I have been to the hat and I think is blows. seriously, it really sucks. It's in the middle of nowhere and it blows. Calgary is way way way better. I mean there is so much more to do in Calgary. Medicine hat blow. I can't stess that enough.

I have been to Grand Prarie and that places also sucks. I did see the northern lights there and it was quite a sight but still Calgary is much much better. Like 1 1/2 hours from Banff and that place is beautiful. The Glaicier (sp?) close to the BC boarder is sooo nice. Screw Saskacwean (sp? sorry, been drinking) and go to Alberta. So much nicer. I think BC is the best place to live but lack of jobs and being so expensive so life doesn't make it to smart to live there.

I would love to live in BC or Alberta but I just dunno if there are enough jobs out there for an Jr IT person

 

I have been to most all of the places that people on this thread call home. Many, for periods greater than a few weeks. (the exception being some spots in BC) They all are not that different from each other.

Now if someone from Rocky Mountain House were to move to Montreal, that would be a bit of a change. (Culturally)

But with the exception of a few people on this board, I don't think any of you have experienced a truely radical change in living conditions by moving. After all, you'd still be in Canada, and most places still speak english.

Anyone here know how to read Cyrilic, or ask for a hamburger in Maligasi?

Moving within the canadian borders offers a change of pace, different cultural conditions, and some very diverse changes in terrain. Some people enjoy that, I know that I do as I travel across the country a lot.

People looking for a real challenge will enjoy being submersed in a place where they can't read even the basic characters on signs. If they could they wouldn't understand the language at all, and even if they understood the language, wouldn't understand the cultural meaning.

I've just described what it's like for 10% of the people I share international flights coming to Canada with. Imagine visiting their country.


Careful where you use the peace sign (with your hand) people, in some parts of the world it means up yours.

Adam

 

That's terrible man. I know exactly what you mean about your wife having a hard time finding a job because she's not bilingual.

I'm very lucky because I am, but I know how hard things would be if I weren't.

Hell, I work in an IT shop in the gov. There are 6 people in my group and I'm the only one who's first language isn't French.

Good luck with the search though! [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

I just don't like it in the Hat. Not for me. Yes Calgary is in the middle on nowhere but it's so big it's not like the hat. Also "near Newmarket" is what I say because I am close to Lake Simcoe and some people might not know where that is.