What someone needs to do is make videos of "every day normal life in Canada", and post them on this forum. Now that would help any newcomers, or those just window shopping, separate the facts from the myths

Vancouver:
http://weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/page..._metric_e.html

Not Vancouver:
http://weatheroffice.gc.ca/forecast/...ml?ns-1&unit=m

Oakville(just outside toronto) has the ford plant, expensive house prices, Milton 15 minutes north is growing rapidly, try erin hillsburgh acton in the halton area, country living not far from toronto but great access to the lakes cottage country with much more affordable housing and 40mins commute to the ford plant

otherwise theres too many places to mention

That's 'cus they think the whole of BC is based on Vancouver

How is one week representative of a climate?

The fact is NS has as much on average, if not more rain than many parts of Vancouver. As Hawk13 says, Vancouver is not representative of BC's climate as a whole.

To be fair to you the number of mm/year of rainfall doesn't give a good guidance on it's own either.

Number of rainy days/Number of cloudy days/Number of sunny days is a big factor as well.

Arhh, maybe i am getting mixed up with the Humidex syndrome, so yeh maybe you do have a point there, bloody hot though just the same.

(Ref to July 2011)

Severe Weather

Heat was the predominant factor in last month’s severe weather. Humidex advisories were posted on numerous days, signalling forecast humidex values of 40 or higher. July 21 was the hottest day in southern Ontario, and on that day the Ontario Storm Prediction Centre in Toronto replaced the Humidex Advisory with a broad-reaching Weather Warning to underscore the severity of the hot weather.

We have our Air Con and heat set to 71f, and it feels ohh so cool when we get in after work in the summer, or just being outside walking the dog and sooo warm after getting in from -10 in the winter. That's the same 21c in the house, how queer.

Them was the days

http://www.climate.weatheroffice.gc....h1=0&month2=12

Vancouver days with Rainfall:
>= 0.2 mm 16.9 15.4 16.7 13.9 13 11.2 6.9 6.8 8.6 14.2 19.5 18.2 161.3

http://www.climate.weatheroffice.gc....h1=0&month2=12

North NS Days with Rainfall:
>= 0.2 mm 7.1 5.3 7.5 10.6 14.8 14 13.1 13 14.6 15.4 13.9 8.8 138.1


Fredericton: 121.1
Montreal: 119.4
Toronto: 112.8
Calgary: 67.5

what's not being said is the amount of days people have to dig their car out of snow/snow ploughs are running. Now THAT would be an interesting comparion.

Anyway, NS is going down the shitter, so who cares.

We've been ploughed out 6 times this winter so far (and three of those were on consecutive days with that silly storm Nemo). Last year wasn't too bad, probably 4-5 times in total.

We'd be screwed without a reliable ploughman

Greenhill, you're all right.

I once, only once, tried to shovel it. It was light snow, not too deep and easily pushed and shoveled.

The driveway is 350' long so this took a good couple of hours.

The next morning, all the snow, plus more, had been blown back into place on the driveway and I had to call the plough man.

There is no punchline

If you don't like freezing cold winters or hot and humid summers or mosquitoes then southern coastal BC can be rather pleasant. It does rain a fair bit in the winter but its rarely gets too chilly. Summers are lovely, not too hot and very little humidity. Can't tell you about employment as my situation is rather insulated from local conditions. Property prices are spendy in relation to many other places in Canada but not to Toronto or other places around the world.

OK, every Province is different, many people on here have only experienced living in one Province and most people will give you pros and cons about their little bit of Canada, I don't think it will help you much, it will just confuse you more. Why not apply for jobs, see which ones you are successful with and take it from there.