Thanks for the intro to Calgary, Frank. Seems like a place I'd like to visit one day. The community spirit / free pancakes - awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. 👍🇨🇦
Oh you haven't been yet you should totally go visit. Free pancakes is only an annual thing unfortunately, but the mountain views are there all year long :)
Imoved to Vancouver area a few years ago but moved back 3 years ago as the cost of living is way cheaper than Vancouver, lower crime no provincial sales tax and the lowest gas prices in Canada. There are more job openings in the construction industry than they can fill. We get a lot more sunshine than a lot of canada. I can go to Kanasaskis in a afternoon and back to Calgary in time for supper and we have two rivers than run through town and a large lake for sailing if your into that. We are in the middle of the Calgary Stampede now that draws thousands of tourists.
ChatGPT was wrong, even with its dataset, lol. Depending on the source, 39-41% (or 4 out of 10) of people from Calgary identify as visible minorities as of 2021. But for what it's worth, I think it depends on which neighborhood/suburb you're from. Where I live in Ottawa, it's incredibly diverse (seemingly in equal parts diverse, too, lol). But my wife and I went to hang around another neighborhood, and we were hard-pressed to find anyone who looked like either of us (we're both different visible minorities). I really agree with your comment(s) on quality of life. Even if one makes well above the national average household income, one wouldn't be able to enjoy much of what Toronto and Vancouver have to offer. Perhaps if the market doesn't implode over there in the next few years, you could consider coming this way. Nature; excellent stable jobs; relatively affordable housing; 4hrs from Toronto; 2hrs from Montreal; 4-5hrs away from Quebec City; 2hrs from Kingston, and only about 7ish hours away from big U.S. cities like NYC and Philadelphia.
I did find that stat surprising myself as well - based on my visual eye test, but yes neighbourhood does play a part. Out in Toronto I have to be strategic with how i spend (as I'm forced too) but I also invest to put me in a better position too. We'll see, the future's unpredictable! Ottawa does have a lot of appealing things on paper. Thx for commenting
Thanks for the intro to Calgary, Frank. Seems like a place I'd like to visit one day. The community spirit / free pancakes - awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. 👍🇨🇦
Oh you haven't been yet you should totally go visit. Free pancakes is only an annual thing unfortunately, but the mountain views are there all year long :)
Imoved to Vancouver area a few years ago but moved back 3 years ago as the cost of living is way cheaper than Vancouver, lower crime no provincial sales tax and the lowest gas prices in Canada. There are more job openings in the construction industry than they can fill. We get a lot more sunshine than a lot of canada. I can go to Kanasaskis in a afternoon and back to Calgary in time for supper and we have two rivers than run through town and a large lake for sailing if your into that. We are in the middle of the Calgary Stampede now that draws thousands of tourists.
Enjoy Stampede! I heard it's going on right now. Seems like you have a lovely home too with those rivers
ChatGPT was wrong, even with its dataset, lol. Depending on the source, 39-41% (or 4 out of 10) of people from Calgary identify as visible minorities as of 2021. But for what it's worth, I think it depends on which neighborhood/suburb you're from. Where I live in Ottawa, it's incredibly diverse (seemingly in equal parts diverse, too, lol). But my wife and I went to hang around another neighborhood, and we were hard-pressed to find anyone who looked like either of us (we're both different visible minorities).
I really agree with your comment(s) on quality of life. Even if one makes well above the national average household income, one wouldn't be able to enjoy much of what Toronto and Vancouver have to offer.
Perhaps if the market doesn't implode over there in the next few years, you could consider coming this way. Nature; excellent stable jobs; relatively affordable housing; 4hrs from Toronto; 2hrs from Montreal; 4-5hrs away from Quebec City; 2hrs from Kingston, and only about 7ish hours away from big U.S. cities like NYC and Philadelphia.
I did find that stat surprising myself as well - based on my visual eye test, but yes neighbourhood does play a part. Out in Toronto I have to be strategic with how i spend (as I'm forced too) but I also invest to put me in a better position too. We'll see, the future's unpredictable! Ottawa does have a lot of appealing things on paper. Thx for commenting
Smash the like button if you enjoy Calgary Stampede 🤠
Time to move to Calgary
Dame Time.
"you are not going to see visible minorities" did you live in the deep south? lol
not too far down.. but I do see where you're going with this lol idk