If you could live anywhere in Canada, where would it be?

Matt Rain said:
The in-laws are in Owen Sound. I like to rag on it for being so far, but it is a nice little town, and it's got junior hockey. I had my son's Habs jersey signed by Guy Carbonneau, in Owen Sound. Thanks for making this post.
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That's all well and good but I don't know your in-laws. Thanks for quoting me.
 
Boswell Bc area for me. Great mountain roads, tons of adventure/dual sport riding, beautiful and quiet. Or Arizona.

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Couple times I've been to Ottawa it seemed like a friendly, cosmopolitan city. Good selection of jobs and the Laurentians right next door. But I'm tied here by family, like you.
 
Blackfin said:
I'm happy in KW. It's far enough from the GTA for comfort but close enough for convenience. 10 minutes' drive/ride in any direction has you out in the country. Our weather is pretty moderate; winters aren't too cold, summers (generally speaking) not too hot. We're surrounded by Great Lakes. We're not close to the US border. These are great communities; good schools, good hospitals etc though driving in them is being ruined to a certain degree by the white-elephant LRT projects...

The Maritimes and Atlantic region? Too cold and damp, too windy, severe winters, summer storms (watching Hurricane Matt right now...)
Prairies or Northern Ontario? Too remote, waaayyyyy too cold in the winter. Far from anything meaningful in the US.

Most places on the southwest of BC would be nice I think.
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I'n in the west central GTA and on a good day I can be out of heavy traffic in a half hour. Today wasn't good. After clearing the GTA had a pleasant rolling cow country out to Anna Mae's in Millbank. Coming back I got to practice slow riding from Hwy 8 to Milton where I diverted to side roads.

K-W seems like a skinny stretched version of T.O. but is OK until the natives reclaim it.

I like the Muskokas except for the people. Most self centred people on the planet. I would enjoy the Kawarthas more and if I needed a bigger city maybe Kingston.

Hamilton is nice at the moment but is being redone as Toronto West.

My choices are being somewhat tempered by the need to be near family and future considerations for medical care. I know several people that enjoyed the move to a small town but when their health failed they got tired of the long drives to health centres.
 
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nobbie48 said:
My choices are being somewhat tempered by the need to be near family and future considerations for medical care. I know several people that enjoyed the move to a small town but when their health failed they go tired of the long drives to health centres.
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That's true, and I hadn't put much thought into it... Dad survived colon cancer 25 years ago, and ever since has been a volunteer driver for the Cancer Society because even though Stratford has a hospital, the cancer treatment happens in London.... certainly is something to keep in mind.
 
Motorcycle Mike said:
That's true, and I hadn't put much thought into it... Dad survived colon cancer 25 years ago, and ever since has been a volunteer driver for the Cancer Society because even though Stratford has a hospital, the cancer treatment happens in London.... certainly is something to keep in mind.
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There is a move to having regional health centres doing the serious stuff and the local hospitals more minor treatments and recovery. I feel sorry for people that have always lived in small towns and then must make frequent trips to downtown Toronto.
 
fastar1 said:
Couple times I've been to Ottawa it seemed like a friendly, cosmopolitan city. Good selection of jobs and the Laurentians right next door. But I'm tied here by family, like you.
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It's not bad if you like living in a commercial refrigerator for the winter.
 
North Vancouver
Tons of nice twisty fast roads up through squamish and whistler. Google the sea to sky highway...
Great weather (to me), super chill atmosphere, tons of outdoor stuff to do
 
west of Calgary, but not Canmore, just outside Banff. 1+ hrs to an International airport, no sales tax, reasonable vehicle ins, no humidity in the summer, awesome fly fishing. I'm only a few weeks of CDN winter guy so couple ski weeks then south to AZ
 
I'm another person who is happy where we are.

I moved out of the Ottawa Valley because there were no jobs. Early 90s forestry got shut down. Military was pretty much it, other than some logging. Schools sucked too, unless you wanted to go to Ottawa.

Currently live in a small town but can be downtown within 45 minutes and have a cottage up on the Bruce Peninsula. We are just now starting to look around for a retirement property.

Plan your life, live your plan.

Pay **** off asap
 
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Boots said:
BC or Nova Scotia.
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No middle of the road for you, huh? Lol.

I think Collingwood would be a nice place to retire to.

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starboy869 said:
I'd love to move back to Lambton county.. Probably Sarnia/Point Edward area if I wanted to stay in the city. Some people will think the area is a hole, but really at the end of the day it's what you make it. I would never move to the GTA.
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Getting morbid, do people look at life expectancy when choosing a place to live? It used to be pretty bad in Sarnia due to the refineries and some other places have lower than average numbers. Kingston wasn't great either IIRC.

I don't need to live to be an incoherent mass at 95 but I don't want to croak at 68 after 20 years of revolving hospital door treatments.
 
Motorcycle Mike said:
Stratford is the small town that I am from. I left because I couldn't find a good job there. I do like that area, but somewhat bored of it... most roads in grid squares, all farms outside the cities, mostly flat.
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I'd like to move out to Stratford in the next 5 years. That will put me on the wrong side of 50 (!!!!), and by then I think I'll be ready to escape the GTA. It's got great restaurants and theatre, and even a small university campus, so it doesn't feel like a retirement community. And plenty of people have relocated there from other places, so (perhaps) it's not as insular as some small communities.

It's not great for riding, but here's the way I've been thinking about it--it already takes me almost an hour to get to decent riding roads from mid-town Toronto. It would be the same in Stratford, but instead of fighting traffic I'd be cruising down farm roads.
 
There's nothing more soothing than a straight farm road texture coated in gravel. Right there you've already gone back in time. Isn't that what it's all about?
 
inreb said:
There's nothing more soothing than a straight farm road texture coated in gravel. Right there you've already gone back in time. Isn't that what it's all about?
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Yup. Especially in the evening light, cornfields on either side, with your shadow riding alongside you...
 
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