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I didn't mention the marginally higher average wage (across all industries, not specifically IT, which does not average higher) or population of Calgary. For re
by DKnoll 8y ago
I 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.