stuartmandy

Hello,

My wife and I and our two kids (1yr old and a 2yr old) will hopefully be moving to Red Deer in the next few months - I have a job offer and have the LMO and are awaiting the work permit. We also have to wait on our house selling which might take longer than we think due to the 'credit crunch' over here.
We are wondering if anyone can give us any info on Red Deer - like the best parts of the city to live etc and to see if there are any other new arrivals in the area so that we could get in touch.
Hope somone can help

Stuart

mandymoochops

Hi someone will be along to help soon as I know definately of one person who lives in Red Deer.

Calling Piff Poff.................?

Judy in Calgary

Hello, Stuart, and welcome to the BE forum.

In addition to Piff Poff, whom mandymoochops already has mentioned, I think Rhodeys lives in Red Deer and Ruby Murray lives just outside of it.

Here's a previous discussion thread called Moving to Red Deer. Oh yes, here's another one called Red Deer Housing.

Hope that helps.
x

mandymoochops

She's just so good this lady!!!!!

Lorna_D

Oh what I would give for a memory like Judy's

Rhodeys

Hi Stuart

As Judy says, we live in Red Deer. We moved here in May this year if we can help in anyway please let us know. I am an RN at Red Deer Regional Hospital and Hubby works in Logistics and Production Management in Rural Lacombe. We have certainly learned a great deal in the last 4 months and are very willing to share info...we have made great contacts, have a great realtor and Mortgage Broker, fantastic car/house insurance contact all things that we have had to do lots of leg work to find and would happily share. Just ask away and if we know the answers we will happily share! Feel free to PM us.

Hi Judy, nice to 'see' you, things have been hectic here lately, house sales, house buying etc etc...so I don't get on here very often.

Kind Regards
Julie

Rhodeys

In terms of where to live I would definitely say SE of the city and I know Piff Poff will agree with that. The North has it`s problems and so is cheaper. We live in Anders now (very sort after area) but we are just renting it tends to be more expensive to buy in the Anders/Anders on the Lake area, we have just bought a house in Inglewood. Bowers , Anders, Inglewood, Varnier Woods, Deer Park, Rosedale, and Lancaster are the nicest areas in our opinion but you should take a look for yourselves. Where are you going to work as that might have influence on where you choose to live also check out which areas are more prone to flooding.

Red Deer is a great place we love it here, best decision we have made.

Julie

the davis family

We nearly moved over to Red Deer this summer but OH's job fell through (no fault of his). I totally agree it looks a lovely place to live and has everything you need. We found property affordable and were seriously considering an acreage near Clive.

But we have bought an acreage here now (much to the relief of our friends)and are staying put for the moment, but have not given up on the idea. I will get to Alberta one day

stuartmandy

Where are you going to work as that might have influence on where you choose to live also check out which areas are more prone to flooding.


I am going to be working with Alberta Transportation and infrastructure in their Red Deer office but im not sure whereabouts it is located.
Is downtown quite easy and quick to access from the outer suburbs?
Is Red Deer quite prone to flooding??? I was hoping to leave the rain behind in Scotland!!!!

stuartmandy

We have read some good things about Sylvan Lake. Is it a nice place to live or is it more of a tourist area?

Rhodeys

Hi Stuart

I don't think it's prone to flooding per se but when the snow melts or when we have bad storms (which trust me we do) some people do experience flooding. We had the wettest June on record this year it rained continuously for weeks. Just 2 weeks ago we had a really bad storm and several of my colleagues experienced problems with basement flooding, all the subdivisions have green areas which are made for drainage. When you buy a house make sure you have a house inspection (we can recommend one of those too ) they will pick up any risks. As for Sylvan Lake we looked there too as house prices are cheaper....it has it's problems, according to my co-workers some problems with groups of youths, and being a tourist place they have issues with drunken groups of younger people causing problems, they have traffic problems too. You need to take a look for yourself though in honesty.

We do know somebody who works for the Transport dept in Red Deer, but Piff Poff knows them much better than we do, she will see this thread soon and reply I am sure. She has had a busy time lately. I did PM you and give you my email address if you want to contact us that way, I don't come on here that often.

Regards

Julie