Calgary is the home of the urban sprawl. Edmonton has a long way to go to get that ugly. Edmonton saw a massive shortage in housing a few years back during th

Calgary is the home of the urban sprawl. Edmonton has a long way to go to get that ugly. Edmonton saw a massive shortage in housing a few years back during the oil boom and moved to build tons of condos and apartments, plus offered tax subsidies if you converted a basement or in-law apartment into a full-on dwelling. So there is a glut of average-tier 2-bed 2-bath apartments everywhere. Plenty of space and COL is reasonable if you're willing to go further out. But, on average, still 100k (adjusting for currency) more than what my coworkers in the NC Research Triangle are paying for a similar square footage house.