Originally Posted by Perry Groves

My wife saw the picture of the house, it is her dream home! How much does a property like that cost?

Originally Posted by Grah

Yep, 4 bed house 1 kid in Uni, 1 in College 1 in high school, 1 in middle school and 1 dog. ( Who if I earnt more might have had artifically hips )

don't fly around the world on holidays but seem to make a nuff of life to be happy. Beside Snow in a month to six weeks and then it would be like living in a completely new place.

Originally Posted by sharonl

still trying to get my head around the distance thing how far moose jaw from winnipeg? what is sask like?!

Originally Posted by Stuarty

Agree totally with iaink, $50,000 won't go far in London or Edinburgh either, like for like lifestyle is the way to compare, here in Dumfries £25,000 is a good comfortable living wage. Its all down to research and getting educated answers.

Originally Posted by sharonl

what is sask like?!

Originally Posted by Grah

some parts like http://www.cornergas.com

Originally Posted by MrsWillow

:D LOL What the H*** am I going back to? :D

Originally Posted by Moose Jaw Ladies

I live in Moose Jaw and my husband is a trucker, we're originally from the UK and our experience has and is wonderful, it's the best things we ever did. We've now got our Permanent Residency and life couldn't be better. I work for the company that brought us over and my husband is still with them. Out of 13 families that have come here only 4 have gone back, all of whom only gave it 3-4 months, which in my opinion is not long enough, plus you need to do lots of research, perhaps the families in question never did !!
Also I've read that eating out just for pizza costs $100, what a load of rubbish, we eat out every week and the most we've paid is $60, oh wait a minute I tell a lie, we did once spend $120 in Calgary but that was for a curry and well worth it.
The cost of living is cheaper over here and my shopping bill is on average $200 every 2 weeks, you have to learn to adapt to whats in the stores here and for goodness sake stop harping on about the food in the UK and the fact that you can't get certain things over here.
Also for truckers working 24/7, again what a load of rubbish, there are various shifts with the company , 10 on 4 off, 7 on 3 off and the one my husband does 6 on 3 off. Yes the work is hard but there's no stress and very little traffic compared to the UK, plus the bonus system with the company is second to none, 4 throughout the year and 2 at Christmas, where would you get that in the UK.
Moose Jaw is a small but very friendly place to live and everyone is really helpful and there's lots to do and see. We couldn't have picked a better place to settle.
My advice to anyone thinking of making the move is research, research and more research. Plus don't keep converting back into Pounds, you're not getting paid in pounds but $ and that's how you spend your money be it on bills, food eating out ect etc. And as for the GST & PST yes that does take some getting use to but it's no big deal.
I get really fed up listening to people that obviously in my opinion haven't really done their research or given it enough time, you have to give it at least the length of yuor work permit, which is 1 year and experience both a summer and a winter here in Saskatchewan.

Originally Posted by Gezza

What is the terrain like in Moose Jaw? Is it only flat and practically no trees?

Originally Posted by Grah

Great T.V.

Originally Posted by Cowtown

I make infrequent visits to this forum ... you've just hit the nail on the head for the reason why!

I'm in SK right now ... very nice people here!! To be honest, much friendler than Calgary too ...