I am soooo jealous Iain! I have been wanting to see the Northern Lights all of my life! I just hope that they decide to visit us again next month. Hope to see you over the holidays. We fly out on the 9th and may or may not be returning, depending on this Study Permit thingy.

I loved my holidays in Devon and my holidays here in Canada. It doesn't matter where you go, living in a place is so different to just staying for a holiday.

Have to agree with that. 10 years in a seaside resort will do that for you. Winter - nothing open, Summer - everything open - too many people. Spring and Autumn where always the best. Not many people and things to do were either just opening or just closing.

Hey Simon, how are you finding life in Cambridge?

[QUOTE=MikeUK]Liftman

the only place worse that I can think of would be PEI ?


Mike: Don't knock till you have tried it!

You can get pills to help that condition Mike

3 years in Alberta, Winter - nothing open, Summer - everything open - too many people.

Spring & Autumn - pretty crap too - nothing open and too much snow.

sounds like someone is packing up their van

It's getting tempting.

I backed out of a job after two interviews yesterday ... it just didn't appeal to me ... 24 hours later I've finally worked out why it didn't appeal to me ... it was still in Calgary, I thought I might at least get a move to Edmonton out of it.

I either need to move somewhere else or I need a long vacation somewhere with some greenery ... damn, I work for a Canadian employer, so forget the long vacation ....

It's not even snowing right now ... we had a chinook that melted all of the bloody stuff ... everything is just brown and dry ... more snow, please, more snow ... the place looks so much better after a good snowfall.

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Not knocking it..... just comaparing the seasonality/tourism to devon...

And if you travel with them and are over 5ft 6in tall you will be unable to walk at the end of the journey. The seat pitch is a joke

Not bad at all. I've moved around a bit when I was younger but the wife is used to a small town feel. It has that feel, yet it also has everything close by. Anyway it's much better than we found it in Mississauga, just wasn't our cup of tea. Even the 30 min drive to work has been ok so far. In six months it's once been over an hour. I suppose the real test will be the first real snow. We had a bit on Monday but I was off.

OK, whats going on?? We have avidly read as much on this forum as possible, and have been getting really excited about moving to Edmonton in March (ish) so whats all this doom and gloom, come on guys, this post seems so different to the usual read!

It's just not been a good week ... ignore the negativity and move to Edmotnon, it's a very nice city ... West Edmonton Mall is fantastic.

Are you sure! I'm almost frightend to let hubby see this post!