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Originally Posted by Keith P.
The poll illustrates the overall ignorance of the populace. BC has areas with a decent climate but lots of rain in those spots while others are very snowy in the winter and still others are like deserts. The prairies have that same hot/cold split summer to winter while the east coast is a great place to live except for the climate. Interesting that NS is favored by more than 3 times the number of those who favor our neighbor NB. Canada really has no places that have San Diego-like good weather most of the year.
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The east coast climate is bad by global standards but good by Canadian standards (and even okay compared to large parts of the US that get too hot in summer). You are right that there is no San Diego. I find that most people on the east coast overestimate how nice the weather is in other parts of Canada. I don't like living in hot summer weather for weeks on end and the stretches of socked-in rain and cloud BC gets in the winter are unreal. Unfortunately even most of the BC interior is very cloudy in winter. Kelowna gets a brutal 35 hours of sun in December on average. People think Halifax is bad and it gets 105 hours.
The bigger factor is that the cost of living in most of Canada has gone through the roof lately. A mediocre condo in Toronto or Vancouver can easily be above $500,000, and renting is precarious in cities with < 1% vacancy rates. I think most young people trying to establish themselves in Vancouver or Toronto right now are making the wrong decision and would have a much higher standard of living in a more affordable city.
The problem with NB is almost all of the growth and opportunity is in larger metropolitan areas. Halifax is borderline. The NB cities are much smaller and don't have as many services to offer.
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