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| Topic | Which province would you most want to live in? (Canada) |
| adjl 08/06/24 2:29:27 PM #31: | Born and raised in Nova Scotia, and it's where I'd like to live long-term, but we're moving to Ontario for my girlfriend's work in a few months because there aren't many opportunities here. Dikitain posted... Buy in bulk, you only really go grocery shopping maybe 2-3 times a year. Because the cost of shipping stuff there is so high it doesn't make sense to buy something that will only last you like a week at most. The last I saw a definite price, it was like $30 for 2L of orange juice, and that was ~6-7 years ago when that would be more like $4-5 anywhere else. Even buying in bulk and mostly sticking to non-perishable stuff that you can store for a long time, you're going to be spending a *ton* on groceries. You can get lower overall costs of living by living in rural areas within a few hours' drive of a city than by living in areas so remote that food has to be flown in and most produce is half-rotten by the time it gets to you. Bonus points where Internet access in the territories can be iffy (a quick search for Nunavut is showing some pretty restrictive bandwidth caps and low speeds), which limits the jobs you can do remotely and leaves you dependent on finding work locally. Unless you're Inuit and trying to remain connected with your culture or you've been offered an attractive job, there isn't a lot of incentive to live in the territories. You can get the other benefits of living in relatively remote areas (quieter, less traffic, lower rents) without being that remote and driving up your cost of living in other ways. Muscles posted... I always got the vibe that Ontario is the most American, so that one Depends entirely on what you mean by "most American." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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