Originally posted by lizwil98
Hi CrazyDaisy - we have lived here for about 35 years. Sure Regina is missing some of the things that you get in a large city - but also some of the things that are missing are bad things!

You can buy yourself a really nice house here for under $100,000 - not too many other places you can do that.

Originally posted by Daltrey
Just curious,but,I am interested into why people
are immigrating to the Prairie provinces?

Do you folks not know that 90% of all immigrants
to Canada live in Toronto,Vancouver and Montreal ?

I forget the breakdown but it's is like 60% Toronto
20% Vancouver,10% Montreal,10% everywhere else.

I know IT work has picked up a lot lately in the Prairies,
is that the attraction?

I used to think that Winnipeg was a rather boring,flat,extremely cold city until I visited to find that it was very culturaly diverse,
had a ton of stuff to do in the summer and was still rather chilly.

Just wondering how an expat would find this stuff out?

Did you visit beforehand?

I have a funny anectdote,my wife and I went to Toronto,
2 years ago with a Canadian couple.

He is a bloke that I work with,we went
just to do touristy stuff,and my Canadian friend had only been there twice before,but,for a couple of weeks at a time and did his research and knew the city pretty well.


We are staying north of downtown and we all leave the hotel to take the tube downtown early in the morning and these 2 Dutch girls come out of this swanky hotel by the subway station with this small map and look at the map and then to the sky.

They get this awe inspired look across their visages, not having a clue as to where to begin.

My friend starts to approach them and then stops dead in his tracks and then continues on,he asks them if they need any help.

This is a city of 4 million plus and he has a very vague understanding of it,but he figures he can help these two girls out.

They look sophisticated and I am cringing as I expect them to start whacking him with their hand-bags.

But,alas,he directs toward the nearest subway station
with instructions on where to get off for the CN tower.

I find this very odd.This bloke doesn't even live in the city?
Isn't that odd or it it just Canadian?

Originally posted by crazydaisy
Ah wow - you must be a real 'Canadian' then - how did it feel to get the citizenship? Did you have to do a pledge to the country like the US or attend any ceremonies?:lecture:

Originally posted by Bruce Hornby
Hi crazydaisy
just thought i would say hi for my first message on here. Will be moving to Medicine Hat Albetra in February and I cant wait.