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But you’d have to live in the Prairies.
by kevintb 8y ago
But you’d have to live in the Prairies.
- dang 8y agoThat's not nice. Please don't do regional dissing here.
- DKnoll 8y agoIt's a legitimate argument dang, just not expressed in the best way. The Canadian praries (AB, SK, MB) are rough. The crime rate and suicide rate is much higher than other provinces, especially Ontario, and there is very little to do. It's cheap because people don't want to live there.
- refurb 8y agoWhat? The Calgary-Edmonton corridor has the highest salaries in Canada and over 1M people in each city.
- DKnoll 8y agoI didn't mention the marginally higher average wage (across all industries, not specifically IT, which does not average higher) or population of Calgary. For reference the Toronto metro area has a population of 6.4 million with the Calgary metro area having 1.3. If we're talking about the praries as a whole which the parent was, that also includes Winnipeg and Regina.
- refurb 8y agoYou said: The Canadian praries (AB, SK, MB) are rough. It's cheap because people don't want to live there.
- DKnoll 8y agoI don't see how that contradicts anything else I've said. The average wage in Nunavut is higher than Toronto, does that make it a better place to live?
- refurb 8y agoSaying "people don't want to live there" while at the same time admitting more than 2M people live in a high income area seems to be contradictory, no?
- DKnoll 8y agoI said 1.3m in the metro area, which includes the population of Calgary. A high average salary doesn't necessarily make the whole of Calgary a high income area either. The average hourly rate of low population places can be easily influenced by outliers, like in the case of Nunavut and several cities in Alberta, contractors doing seasonal work in dangerous trades.
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- tptacek 8y agoDoesn't Dan, like, hail from Alberta? I worked for a couple months in Calgary and really liked it.
- DKnoll 8y agoWho's Dan? I probably seem like I really hate Calgary but I don't... I was talking about the praries at large and Calgary is just one city. I mean they made a knock-off CN Tower out of spite but I won't hold it against them... :P
- tptacek 8y ago'dang, the moderator on this thread. Central Illinois is a big, flat, boring, methamphetamized prairie too, but I'd still rather live in Chicago than on either coast. Most places you could think of wanting to live are surrounded by boring places.
- DKnoll 8y agoAre they? Would have assumed SF. Didn't think YCombinator had any presence in Canada. I thought dang was a shared account used by multiple moderators as well.
- graeme 8y agoThe praries are cold, flat, and devoid of any cities of interest (in the sense that people visit to see the cities). People do live in cities in alberta, but the cities are mostly car oriented. If you want to live in a walkable area you're mostly out of luck in the part of Canada between Toronto and Vancouver. There are reasons people really enjoy being in the praries of course, but it really is a serious lifestyle choice you have to make.