iaink

Just curious. It seems to me that most of the happy posters that have made the move live in the sticks, and the "same old same old" posters are in the cities.

I just tagged on the UK options so you dont feel left out

Public poll. Very subjective, and you can decide for yourselves if Hicksville NB counts as a city or not within the scope of the poll.

Butch Cassidy

Ok so lets see if Hangman and myself are the odd ones out????
Is third time lucky living in Hicksville Ontario like Iain and Trish?

Stuarty

2 guesses how I voted
Piss awful place.
Stuarty

wonderwoman

I'm still in the UK and fall in the wonder if Canada will be any better group, i hope that we will experience a quality of life change ie: less overtime for OH just to pay the bills, opportunity's for my boys that we can't provide here, but i am realistic, the whole same s**t, shinier bucket etc ! i look on our move to Canada as an opportunity to experience a different country and culture, and am just going to 'go with the flow' (we are hoping to swop a small town here for a small town there)

Butch Cassidy

Erm
Mr AX are you being truthful in your voting?

Steve_P

I think most on the forum would agree that both Butch and I are probably a bit odd.

I'm not sure it was fair of me to vote considering how long I've been here. But if I cast my mind back to when I left Liverpool and compare it to where I now live I have to believe I am far better off.

I am also very biased in that I think Calgary is the best city bar none to live in Canada but that is a purely subjective thing. Having said that I firmly believe that had I not been moved to Calgary I would be very happy to be living in Edmonton still.

Cheers
Steve

Butch Cassidy

Very Valid point young man.

From a personal pt of View. My experience of Canada thus far suggests I would have voted similarly if I was in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto or Montreal.
I could also have been equally happy in Banff or Cochrane (but then would have had to use the country option).

All that aside I still think Calgary is the best city (for me) in Canada.

oceanMDX

Interesting, you may have something with this.

Biiiiink

I'd like to see where people lived before too, but I suspect all those options would send your poll into meltdown

I keep seeing comparisons drawn between UK life and life in Canada, and it then transpires the poster has moved from SE England to rural NS or such! I wonder if they could have achieved the same satisfaction moving to a remote part of the UK, as I rarely see anything Canada-specific that has made them happier.

Butch Cassidy

Some interesting ideas of what the country is in Canada

andy_sheila

I voted for nothing special but i could have equaly voted for better here. As you said it is subjective. Overall we are very happy and much better off but as a place, NS is very nice but certainly no better than the West country in the UK (in many ways, a lot worse)
So there you have it, conclusion, very happy, better off but worse(?) place.

R2D2

I see ourselves as living "neither" in the city nor in the country, but feel more countryfied coz of our location in the town we live in. Hence my vote

Butch Cassidy

But isnt Sherwood Park officially a city???

iaink

"Quinte West" is also officialy a city, but if you look at my photos here, its certainly looks nothing like one.

Its intentionally subjective and left to the voter to decide, really theirs is the only opinion that counts as they are living that particular life.

Mostly we canadian residents seem a contented lot, but I am surprised that noone so far in Canada actively thinks its sucks, regardless of location. Most unlike expats readers!

Steve_P

Anorak on.

Answer: Nope.

There are sixteen cities in Alberta and Sherwood Park isn't one of them.

Airdrie 27,069
Brooks (became a city effective Sept. 1, 2005) 11,604
Calgary 956,078
Camrose 15,850
Cold Lake 11,595
Edmonton 712,391
Fort Saskatchewan 14,685
Grande Prairie 44,631
Leduc 15,630
Lethbridge 77,202
Lloydminster – Alberta side only 15,487
Medicine Hat 56,048
Red Deer 79,082
Spruce Grove 18,405
St. Albert 56,310
Wetaskiwin 11,154

Here's a link to the 2005 Official Population List a PDF document put out by Alberta Municipal Affairs, Municipal Services Branch.

Anorak off.

Cheers
Steve