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Originally Posted by Manic!
I find it ridiculous that some people believe Vancouver is the only good place to live in Canada.
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There's good places in BC...but other than that?
I have relatives that live in nice resort towns like Invermere and they are beautiful little towns, relatively well off people because lots either work out of town or manage businesses within the town. However, there are all the problems small towns have. Drugs/booze, unemployment, nothing to do other than ski and power sports in the winter, etc. Also "dining" is pretty much non existent in places like these.
Kelowna is full of Brochacho's. The surrounding areas like Vernon etc seem nice but again, for myself it lacks big city amenities. Things like going to a Best Buy, Home Depot, Costco etc you take for granted when you live close to them all. It comes down to online ordering or a decent drive to get to these places.
Toronto is a completely different lifestyle than Vancouver and to me, people born and bred in TO and the surrounding suburbs are -completely- different than people from BC, different mentalities, different lifestyles, etc. good friends I grew up with who now live and work in TO are all hugely outgoing extroverts. And they have these massive circles of friends who are almost all the same A type personalities. I'd say for the most part I personally lean more toward the introverted side, and just don't really care for what goes along with the type of relationships seemingly everyone I know who moved to TO has.
So then you get to Quebec, maritimes, etc. I'm sure there's some good in those spots, but outside of Montreal I don't see much as a long term solution. Quebec City is nice but it's a tourist depot. The east coast seems nice and seemingly has great people but no work, for anyone really.
For me, it would probably come down to the island, Squamish, whistler, somthing like that