I'm moving to canada with my boyfriend soon and we have nowhere to go. We want to rent an apartment in some city or surburb it really doesn't matter. So what city in Canada is relativly cheap to live in? I thought Winnipeg sounded like nice...Any advice is truly appeciated.
Moving to Canada? Good call... I'm a Canadian, recently moved to Dubai, and am missing it terribly... Anyhoo, Winnipeg? Personally, I'd avoid it. It's nice, yes, very suburban, but friggin' COLD in the winter. I'd check out some of the local newspapers across the country, read up on night life and stuff y'all like to do. Me - I love Toronto, St. Johns (Newfoundland), Calgary (Alberta), Vancouver/Victoria (BC). Good hippie communities in those cities too. Very liberal, vibrant... Calgary is right beside the Rocky Mountains, so you can go skiing, hiking, rafting, etc. Very close to BC (over the mountains), so easy travels. Hope that helps... Good luck. -UrbanHippie.
Hey there I'm in Winnipeg right now. It's been the warmest winter on record this year with a mean temp of -7.7 this January. So yeah...climate change...anywho, winnipeg is very cheap to live in. It's pretty alseep here though. I like to come and inject some light here then go charge up on the west coast. However the permanent folks are very committed indeed and some very powerful lay lines run right through town. Good luck pm if you need more info...I know a dude that can rent you some decent rooms month to month for cheap to get you started here.
actually the cheapest would probably be the east coast ..........like in new brunswick here ... a good house can still be had for under $100 K outside the cities
bleh, that's nothin you can buy a house on the prairies for the price of a used car. one example: http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.a...RL=%3fAreaID%3d1049&Mode=0&PropertyID=2537162
I think its very important you take into consideration many factors here. Where you see a house on the Prairies for a 'Used Car' price then you can be certain its also a house which is in a virtually jobless location as well. What you are seeing is someone who has probably moved and now has a liability. A House in which is costing them in taxes, water bills and rather stunning heating bills. Now thats terrific if you have some money coming in from somewhere else and you want to live in what is usualy a very small town, remote from any larger city! Otherwise you might be pretty shocked to be paying out 800 a month in bills, mortgage, taxes, water and where do you work? You really want to think about that because once you get into these things - you might not be able to get out. Winnipeg really is one of the few Cities in southern Canada that still has 'sane' housing and cost of living levels. 'Winterpeg' is not really exciting but on the other hand I think its a pretty clean and perfectly great city IMO If you are set on the Prairies then Im going to suggest you take a look at Saskatoon. Ive always thought it was on of the most under-rated 'little big cities' in all of Canada. But getting back to the balance of earning/spending - Calgary for example has high rents and houses are up there in price But The reason and other side of the coin is that Calgary is booming. You can find a reasonably well paying job with little effort. You really dont want to just sorta pick anywhere as if its all the same situation. I mean, Canadians really are alike across the board (even in Quebec) but if you are a liberal-minded Hippy type then you are gonna be more 'at home' in Victoria, B.C. than you will in, say, Viking, Alberta. Its a very signifigant difference and you want to really consider that. So its really worth 'Googling' the research and really wieghing a lot of considerations. There are young couples that will sort of 'Spontaneously' buy a house Northern Alberta and after 6 months of winter and a LOT more 'Desolation' than they expected - people have started to go stir-crazy, 'cabin/island fever' whatever you want to call it but 'kinda nuts'. Likewise, Vancouver postcards and tourism sites may seem like a 'Laid back West Coast style' but live and commute in Greater Van for 6 months and you realise that place is a freaking high-paced, neurotic rat-race with lots and lots of anything-but-laid-back people to piss you right off or get pissed at you. Personally, I think Edmonton is just a fantastic, youthful and motivated strong progressive City that is not crazy or 'too much' of a Big City atmosphere either. Winters are a bitch though. (not this one but some)
I belief you can... isnt 16 the legal age where you can move out of the house. If that fails you can always just aply for refugee status. Just make something up...
Toronto is expensive. I wish someone told me that. If you get an all ultilities included apartment in Toronto for $450 consider yourself very very lucky. I know people who rent 1 bedroom places for $900 and the apartments are shitty and small. And Toronto's full of urbanized rednecks... Montreal is apparently quite cheap, but French is important if you want to live there for a while.
Montreal is a great city to live in. Never a dull moment there, and a lot of rural surrounding areas. Everyone there speaks English too, so don't worry about the French thing, except that they can be slightly rude. And don't expect to get anywhere by car either, unless you're a really aggressive driver...... I live in Hamilton, which is a small big city an hour away from Toronto and Niagara Falls, and twice as cheap in costs. We have a bad rep for being a dirty city, but that's only if you move to the east end.....don't move to the east end....or north...but Hamilton mountain area and west Hamilton are nice friendly places, and there's a lot of rural suburbs here too, good trails, music scene, cheap weed......
