olivia1

Hi.
Has anyone got any experience of living or working in golden bc,if so would you recommend as a family relocation.
thanks

Aviator

Welcome to BE. Have you been to Golden?

dboy

Been through there and stayed there a few times. It's pretty isolated from just about anything. Nice setting on the Kicking Horse Pass. Other than tourism and sking, I doubt there's much work there. The town itself is very small and like many other small towns, as its share of problems.

I couldn't live there.

fowler71

What are your reasons for selecting Golden?
This is really just a stop off town for people travelleing between Alberta and BC. Mainly service economy and not a place i'd ever consider to live.

olivia1

Hi all.
Thanks for the response, ive been there skiing to kicking horse, but what you see on holiday and what reallity are like on a every day basis are two different things i suppose.
would anyone recommend the vancouver area, have been there once in 07, im a carpenter, so would assume work is easier to find there.

thanks

fowler71

You seem to be all over the place and basing potential destinations on vacation memories, big mistake. As for Vancouver, it's the most expensive city in North America, so even with a carpenter job i'm not sure you'll have enough money to live there.
The economy in Canada is not that strong compared to 2-3 years ago.

dbd33

That's hard to believe.

mattieuk

Of course you can afford to live around Vancouver, you just won't be able to get a nice 5 acre country estate.

Well, as housing prices are the most unaffordable in the world at the moment in Vancouver, I believe it.

Oink

I think Manhattan in New York City is a pretty spendy place to buy a house.

dbd33

Also San Francisco.

mattieuk

Not meaning to be overly picky, but Manhattan is a borough, not a City (but even picking a nice NYC location, it is close):

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...5064551500.htm

Also, in an international affordability study:

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

New York comes in at 16th. Either way, not disagreeing with you. Vancouver and Manhattan are both very pricey places to buy property!

cityhog

I haven't seen a house in Manhattan. You mean a flat or apartment?

Oink

I don't mean to be picky either but I didn't say it was a city.

dbd33

I read this as "there's one apartment in Vancouver that costs more than the average for Manhattan" i.e. Vancouver's generally cheaper. Expensive for being in Canada, of course.

mattieuk

Sorry, mixed up your response with dbd's about Van being a city.

It still isn't really representative of a City though, cherry picking a single borough that is even more expensive than an already ridiculously expensive city (and if one were looking at getting a Manhattan apartment, then I'm guessing there aren't too many massive financial constraints going on). You would be better off comparing Gastown apartments in Vancouver, with somewhere like Manhattan, rather than Vancouver.

Quite possibly the case. These kind of reports are often based on 'for sale' prices as well, which furthur skews the information - just because I say my bunch of bananas is worth $200 doesn't make it representative. The housing affordability study does ring true though.