Info about moving to Alberta
Road Warrior
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From: Canada
Ya know - if I were retiring, I might look at like Frank AB area or something. Close enough to a biger center [Calgary] but on the hip of the mountians. USA is close for ridin'.
The Okanagan is nice, but getting overpopulated. Maybe Osoyoos or something... Rock Creek? BC is expensive though. The Kootenays are nice too: Golden, Invemere etc..? Creston might be awesome [Kokanee brewing] and close to Idaho riding.
Vancouver Island is kinda ****ed. The SE portion is overpopulated and expensive. Everywhere else rains quite a lot. They're going to get tight on drinking water. Victoria is a beautiful city but crazy expensive. There is no bridge -- and BC Ferries is a FOR Profit business. The Black Ball is cool, but also expensive.
Just some ideas from a life long westerner...
The Okanagan is nice, but getting overpopulated. Maybe Osoyoos or something... Rock Creek? BC is expensive though. The Kootenays are nice too: Golden, Invemere etc..? Creston might be awesome [Kokanee brewing] and close to Idaho riding.
Vancouver Island is kinda ****ed. The SE portion is overpopulated and expensive. Everywhere else rains quite a lot. They're going to get tight on drinking water. Victoria is a beautiful city but crazy expensive. There is no bridge -- and BC Ferries is a FOR Profit business. The Black Ball is cool, but also expensive.
Just some ideas from a life long westerner...
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From: TOAK Northern Branch
Don’t go North. Long winters, short summers, crappy straight roads full of pot holes.
I don’t know much of Lethbridge, just that it’s windy, close to the US border (great riding) and to B.C.
The wind gets tiresome quickly.
I don’t know much of Lethbridge, just that it’s windy, close to the US border (great riding) and to B.C.
The wind gets tiresome quickly.
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Joined: May 2011
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From: Alberta
I live in Lethbridge, AB and moved here from Saskatchewan about 11 yrs ago. The population of the city is about 100,000 and goes up a few thousands every year. Our summers are hot and this is a dry climate. Winters for the most part are mild, and we get the Chinook winds in the winter. Most winters it rarely drops to -20 C and then only for a few days. Our climate has changed in the last decade and it seems to be trending to warmer overall. Lethbridge gets lots of comments about the wind. I've found that on average we will get 3 or 4 pretty good blows every year. For anybody that lives east of the Rockies this is a normal thing and locations just slightly north of us get more wind than we do. You get used to it.
Real Estate- Prices have gone up in the last few years, but I would say that a standard bungalow of about 900-1000 feet would be in the $ 270-300,000 range. Prices vary a bit based on location, north, south or west parts of the cities are slightly different for the same type of house. Condition matters.
Hospital - Includes cancer wing.
Airport - Is serviced be either West Jet or Air Canada. It services varies a bit.
Riding. If you have a small bike, the wind on occasion can cause you some issues, but then again you learn to live with it. You are close to the Rockies, about 1 1/2 hrs ride to the Crowsnest Pass and then into BC. Many good paved roads in the area. You are just an hour north of Montana and the Logan Pass, so real close to the US. Less traffic than in southern Ontario.
We like it here, but one of the biggest things to keep in mind is that you have to make new friends and that isn't always easy. Lethbridge is like most smaller centers, if you weren't born here, you don't always fit in. Anybody that has moved a lot in their lives knows what I'm talking about. Calgary is about 2 hours drive north of us.
Real Estate- Prices have gone up in the last few years, but I would say that a standard bungalow of about 900-1000 feet would be in the $ 270-300,000 range. Prices vary a bit based on location, north, south or west parts of the cities are slightly different for the same type of house. Condition matters.
Hospital - Includes cancer wing.
Airport - Is serviced be either West Jet or Air Canada. It services varies a bit.
Riding. If you have a small bike, the wind on occasion can cause you some issues, but then again you learn to live with it. You are close to the Rockies, about 1 1/2 hrs ride to the Crowsnest Pass and then into BC. Many good paved roads in the area. You are just an hour north of Montana and the Logan Pass, so real close to the US. Less traffic than in southern Ontario.
We like it here, but one of the biggest things to keep in mind is that you have to make new friends and that isn't always easy. Lethbridge is like most smaller centers, if you weren't born here, you don't always fit in. Anybody that has moved a lot in their lives knows what I'm talking about. Calgary is about 2 hours drive north of us.
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