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Canada’s top 25 places to live in 2015

Kind of depressing actually and maybe my mind was playing tricks but North Van appeared twice?

People looking at moving to Canada here is your guide. You're welcome.
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Canada’s top 25 places to live in 2015

Kind of depressing actually and maybe my mind was playing tricks but North Van appeared twice?

People looking at moving to Canada here is your guide. You're welcome.
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Canada’s top 25 places to live in 2015

Kind of depressing actually and maybe my mind was playing tricks but North Van appeared twice?

People looking at moving to Canada here is your guide. You're welcome.

what a strange collection ..... yes, depressing!

I wonder what the criteria were?

and yes, North Vancouver was there twice
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what a strange collection ..... yes, depressing!

I wonder what the criteria were?

and yes, North Vancouver was there twice
Canada’s Best Places to Live 2015: Full Ranking

Expand the + next to a city name, and it will give you all the factors they considered.
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They did a sub-guide specifically for New Immigrants, where they ranked based on employment, rental property rates etc

Canada's Best Places for New Immigrants 2015
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Default Re: Top 25 places to live in Canada

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Canada’s top 25 places to live in 2015

Kind of depressing actually and maybe my mind was playing tricks but North Van appeared twice?

People looking at moving to Canada here is your guide. You're welcome.
Presumably North Van is on there twice to separate the city and the district of North Van, though it's still pretty
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Langley is on the list twice too. Vancouver Island doesn't even get a mention until around 130!
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Langley is on the list twice too. Vancouver Island doesn't even get a mention until around 130!
Comox does.
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Comox does.
Actually so does Victoria at No.50
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I looked at the Best Places to Retire list and was perplexed not to find "Anywhere But Canada" omitted.

C'est la vie.
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North van is there twice because of Tomahawk BBQ 😜 every time we are there we visit!!

Personally I was horrified we were moving to
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North van is there twice because of Tomahawk BBQ 😜 every time we are there we visit!!

Personally I was horrified we were moving to Prince George given its terrible rep. Actually I LOVE it here and wouldn't move back to Van if you paid me.
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Interesting stuff. I just looked up Kelowna and we have gone up to number 84 but i see it says "days above 24 degrees 3.69"
This seems wildly inaccurate, jeez we had temps above that last week and its only May, its not unusual to see 40 degrees in mid summer with many days at low to mid thirties.
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Interesting stuff. I just looked up Kelowna and we have gone up to number 84 but i see it says "days above 24 degrees 3.69"
This seems wildly inaccurate, jeez we had temps above that last week and its only May, its not unusual to see 40 degrees in mid summer with many days at low to mid thirties.
It's not number of days, but a points system out of 10. Calgary has 0.16 for Days above 24c.

WEATHER: 10 points—(2 points for the ideal amount of precipitation, 3 points for the number of days with rain, 1 point for days with precipitation of any kind, three points for days above 0°C, and 1 point fro days above 20°C). Ideal volume of precipitation is considered to be 700 mm per year. Source: Environment Canada
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Any survey without Scarberia at #1 is clearly wrong.
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