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Re: Decision Time for Edmonton

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Originally Posted by killerfish (Post 9552093)

Having lived in both cities, I'd have to say you have that one the wrong way round. Edmonton is very much an outdoor city. I've never seen a more forested city. If you like walk/run/cycle trails it's hard to beat, especially in the downtown/river valley area. From wikipedia:

"Edmonton's river valley constitutes the longest stretch of connected urban parkland in North America, and Edmonton has the highest per capita area of parkland of any Canadian city; the river valley is 22 times larger than New York City's Central Park."

I don't mean to sing Edmontons praises. There are negatives about the place, and some are major, but it's positives are very redeeming.

Edmontonians bang on about their bloody "river valley" as though no other city in North America has a river running through it.

Apart from being the only geographical feature of any note between here and the Rockies (4 hours away), it really isn't anything special.

Re: Decision Time for Edmonton

Montreal - Quebec
Edmonton - Alberta
Waterloo - Ontario
Saskatoon - Saskatchewan

These are the places I have lived in Canada and that is the order I would put them in. I almost moved to Vancouver, the low paid job and high cost of property stopped me going. I worked in Vancouver for short while and if I had moved there it would probably sit between Montreal and Edmonton.

Both Edmonton and Vancouver have high property costs, Vancouver I found much higher costs unless you moved a long way outside the City, the difference for me was that I could get paid enough to buy here in Edmonton.

There is not a great deal of difference between most Canadian Cities to be fair, the biggest thing is what is near, in Waterloo we had Niagara and Toronto each about 2.5 hours drive away, in Edmonton we have the Rockies 4 hours and Calgary 3 hours away. Saskatoon, well.......

Montreal had more of a European feel to it.