Tigger71

hi,
just wondering if any has any good or bad things to say about living in
Winipeg, we are hoping to move there, any good neighbour hoods for kids,
anything appreciated !

thanks in advance

Kalaki

We just moved back to ontario from winnipeg.... it's a busy city if you
like that kind of thing.... but what i did like is that they have alot
of resources for kids ... the schools were good.... unlike where i'm
from in ontario the classroom sizes in winnipeg were small ... ontario
where i'm from the classrooms even for kindergarten you are looking at
about 30 kids/class winnipeg is about 20-23/class at the school my kids
were at ....
shopping is great there.... loads of places to get great deals on
things... rent is cheap but groceries are high so kinda equals out...
property is also cheap there....
we lived in the St. Cross area near Kildonan park just off Main street ....
OH one word of warning... Hope you like mosquitoes, they seem to own
propertie out there and have thier own landing strips they are sooo big
and plentyfull LOL
hope this helps
don't forget the mosquito repellant!


tigger71 wrote:
    > hi,
    > just wondering if any has any good or bad things to say about living in
    > Winipeg, we are hoping to move there, any good neighbour hoods for kids,
    > anything appreciated !
    >
    > thanks in advance
    >
    >
    >

R Obert

Being in the middle of a large continent, Winnipeg can be subject to
wide variation in temperature extremes, from quite cold in the winter,
to hot in the summer.

Not saying any of that is good or bad ( I actually prefer the cold to
heat myself ), but just a fact. From what little I know about the
city itself, though, it seems like it'd be a great place to live, as
far as cities go.

"tigger71" wrote:

    >hi,
    >just wondering if any has any good or bad things to say about living in
    >Winipeg, we are hoping to move there, any good neighbour hoods for kids,
    >anything appreciated !
    >thanks in advance


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terryg

u can have snow for up to 7 months of the year with extremes of -50 degrees C. My mum lived there for 12 years till last Xmas

Goldfinger

"terryg" wrote in message
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    > u can have snow for up to 7 months of the year with extremes of -50
    > degrees C. My mum lived there for 12 years till last Xmas

-50C in Winnipeg is rare even with the windchill factor added in. The
coldest two months are January and February which the temperature will dip
to -30C or -40 with wind chill. Generally, it doesn't snow until late
October and the snow will melt away by the end of April. So you have around
6 months of snow a year but Winnipeg doesn't receive too much percipitation
relatively speaking.


A lot of the facts of winter in Winnipeg have been blown out of proportion.

S B

Goldfinger wrote:

    > A lot of the facts of winter in Winnipeg have been blown out of proportion.

Heehee ... you said it ... blown ... if it weren't for the famous winds
at Portage and Main (and the mosquitos) it would be a nice place to
live!

Northernligths25

OCtober snow.....not possible.

    >Subject: Re: Winnipeg, Manitoba
    >From: S B [email protected]
    >Date: 5/26/03 2:37 PM Atlantic Daylight Time
    >Message-id:
    >Goldfinger wrote:
    >> A lot of the facts of winter in Winnipeg have been blown out of proportion.
    >Heehee ... you said it ... blown ... if it weren't for the famous winds
    >at Portage and Main (and the mosquitos) it would be a nice place to
    >live!

terryg

I have never lived there myself but as I said, my mum was there for 12 years up until Christmas just gone and I spoke to her every 3 days whilst she was there- I got bored of being told the temperature. For the last 3 years I have spoken to our supplier (and investor) based in Winnipeg every 2 days who confirms these extremes

Northernligths25

Winnipeg extreme weatehr is nothing compared to Quebec City or even Atlantic
Canada cities.

    >Subject: Re: Winnipeg, Manitoba
    >From: r_obert@REMOVE_THIS.hotmail.com
    >Date: 5/26/03 6:24 PM Atlantic Daylight Time
    >Message-id:
    >go to www.worldclimate.com, and type in winnipeg, and you'll see that
    >while every location has temperature extremes ... they're just that
    >... extremes .. and not typical of the average.
    >the average winter highs for winnipeg are:
    >dec: -9.3 C / 15.3
    >jan: -12.9 C / 8.8 F
    >feb: -10 C / 14.0 F
    >which is cool, but isn't really all that cold, by some canadian
    >standards
    >average highs in summer are:
    >jun: 22.8 / 73.0
    >july: 26.1 / 79.0
    >aug: 25.0 / 77.0
    >which is warm, no matter how you look at it. :-O
    >terryg wrote:
    >>I have never lived there myself but as I said, my mum was there for 12
    >>years up until Christmas just gone and I spoke to her every 3 days
    >>whilst she was there- I got bored of being told the temperature. For
    >>the last 3 years I have spoken to our supplier (and investor) based in
    >>Winnipeg every 2 days who confirms these extremes
    >>
    >>Originally posted by Goldfinger
    >>> "terryg" wrote in message
    >>> news:[email protected]"]news:798069.105389536-
    >>> [email protected][/url]...
    >>> > u can have snow for up to 7 months of the year with extremes of
    >>> -50
    >>> > degrees C. My mum lived there for 12 years till last Xmas
    >>> -50C in Winnipeg is rare even with the windchill factor added in. The
    >>> coldest two months are January and February which the temperature
    >>> will dip
    >>> to -30C or -40 with wind chill. Generally, it doesn't snow until late
    >>> October and the snow will melt away by the end of April. So you
    >>> have around
    >>> 6 months of snow a year but Winnipeg doesn't receive too much
    >>> percipitation
    >>> relatively speaking.
    >>A lot of the facts of winter in Winnipeg have been blown out of
    >>proportion.
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R Obert

go to www.worldclimate.com, and type in winnipeg, and you'll see that
while every location has temperature extremes ... they're just that
... extremes .. and not typical of the average.

the average winter highs for winnipeg are:

dec: -9.3 C / 15.3
jan: -12.9 C / 8.8 F
feb: -10 C / 14.0 F

which is cool, but isn't really all that cold, by some canadian
standards

average highs in summer are:

jun: 22.8 / 73.0
july: 26.1 / 79.0
aug: 25.0 / 77.0

which is warm, no matter how you look at it. :-O

terryg wrote:

    >I have never lived there myself but as I said, my mum was there for 12
    >years up until Christmas just gone and I spoke to her every 3 days
    >whilst she was there- I got bored of being told the temperature. For
    >the last 3 years I have spoken to our supplier (and investor) based in
    >Winnipeg every 2 days who confirms these extremes
    >
    >Originally posted by Goldfinger
    >> "terryg" wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]"]news:798069.105389536-
    >> [email protected][/url]...
    >> > u can have snow for up to 7 months of the year with extremes of
    >> -50
    >> > degrees C. My mum lived there for 12 years till last Xmas
    >> -50C in Winnipeg is rare even with the windchill factor added in. The
    >> coldest two months are January and February which the temperature
    >> will dip
    >> to -30C or -40 with wind chill. Generally, it doesn't snow until late
    >> October and the snow will melt away by the end of April. So you
    >> have around
    >> 6 months of snow a year but Winnipeg doesn't receive too much
    >> percipitation
    >> relatively speaking.
    >A lot of the facts of winter in Winnipeg have been blown out of
    >proportion.


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Goldfinger

"terryg" wrote in message
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    > I have never lived there myself but as I said, my mum was there for 12
    > years up until Christmas just gone and I spoke to her every 3 days
    > whilst she was there- I got bored of being told the temperature. For
    > the last 3 years I have spoken to our supplier (and investor) based in
    > Winnipeg every 2 days who confirms these extremes

I spent six winters in Winnipeg and the coldest I had ever experienced was
something like -40+ with windchill. The coldest temperature wise was little
below -35C. Yes, Winnipeg is cold and it is windy but to say it could get
to -50C constantly is not true.

A normal January or Februrary day will have temperature raning from -18
to -25 and it'll drop futher to -30ish when a cold front comes in.
Sometimes people and even people in Winnipeg like to sensationalist the
weather thingy there just because there isn't much to talk about other than
that.

Madredhatter

"NorthernLigths25" wrote in message
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    > OCtober snow.....not possible.
Idiot! Snow in October is totally possible.

Atul Patel

cool



wrote in message

news:[email protected]...
    > go to www.worldclimate.com, and type in winnipeg, and you'll see that
    > while every location has temperature extremes ... they're just that
    > ... extremes .. and not typical of the average.
    > the average winter highs for winnipeg are:
    > dec: -9.3 C / 15.3
    > jan: -12.9 C / 8.8 F
    > feb: -10 C / 14.0 F
    > which is cool, but isn't really all that cold, by some canadian
    > standards
    > average highs in summer are:
    > jun: 22.8 / 73.0
    > july: 26.1 / 79.0
    > aug: 25.0 / 77.0
    > which is warm, no matter how you look at it. :-O
    > terryg wrote:
    > >
    > >I have never lived there myself but as I said, my mum was there for 12
    > >years up until Christmas just gone and I spoke to her every 3 days
    > >whilst she was there- I got bored of being told the temperature. For
    > >the last 3 years I have spoken to our supplier (and investor) based in
    > >Winnipeg every 2 days who confirms these extremes
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >Originally posted by Goldfinger
    > >> "terryg" wrote in message
    > >> news:[email protected]"]news:798069.105389536-
    > >> [email protected][/url]...
    > >>
    > >> > u can have snow for up to 7 months of the year with extremes of
    > >> -50
    > >> > degrees C. My mum lived there for 12 years till last Xmas
    > >>
    > >> -50C in Winnipeg is rare even with the windchill factor added in. The
    > >> coldest two months are January and February which the temperature
    > >> will dip
    > >> to -30C or -40 with wind chill. Generally, it doesn't snow until late
    > >> October and the snow will melt away by the end of April. So you
    > >> have around
    > >> 6 months of snow a year but Winnipeg doesn't receive too much
    > >> percipitation
    > >> relatively speaking.
    > >>
    > >>
    > >A lot of the facts of winter in Winnipeg have been blown out of
    > >proportion.
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