Looking to migrate to Canada, any Canadians wanna plug their city?

[Piano Man]

I'm from Iowa, and the idea of me moving farther north makes as much sense as marshmellows and ass.

 

[Loggerman]

I've been a west coaster all me life.Seen most of Canada...,OK only as far as TO.
Vancouver has the most to offer.Any sporting event persoal/professial is either minutes away or a 2hr drive to Seatle.
Three shi hills(1 with night sking).Whistler/Blackcomb 1 1/2 north.
Any kind of fishing/hiking/gliders.......just to many things to list.
Vancouver Island!Just beautiful from one end to another,aleast a couple days to cover the whole island.
Could go on and on but you get the picture.

 

[Aquaman]

Out here in the West we only have 4 Universitys:

University of Victoria (Victoria)
University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
University of Northern British Columbia (Prince George way up north)
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, right next to Vancouver)

The good thing about Vancouver is that it does not snow too much...... the bad thing is that it rains buckets Very mild winters and summers (lucky to get over 85F usually around 77 in summer). Cost of living is probably highest in Canada but there are a lot of things to do outdoors.

Good luck with your search and welcome to Canada

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[GL]

Bluga,

I'm in CS Co-Op (at Scarb. campus)...which probably explains why I'm up at 5:21 after working for about 5 hours to get my stupid C program to run properly on the U of T servers (it worked perfectly on my linux box!). To think I thought I was finished with this a week ago - prof didn't give us any test inputs until tonight...spotted a bug...took me a hell of a lot of time to determine it wasn't a logical bug on my part but a stupid Solaris/Linux incompatibility! Arghh...

My sig

Only decode my sig if you're bored...you'll understand.

-GL

 

[chansen]

I think what some of us are forgetting is their need for at least one of the schools in the area you are touting to be a veterinary school. I am quite sure, for example, that the blue-bloods at Queen's have never felt the need to shove their arms inside a cow - they would leave undesirable actions such as those up to others. Not that Kingston is not a nice town - it is.

A Yahoo search within Canadian Universities showed only two veterinary schools to me - Guelph and Saskatchewan. If you are used to city life, Saskatchewan would be severe culture shock. Again, a nice place with fantastic people by all accounts, but I did not see a music program listed there.

Can anyone else confirm or deny the existence of a vet school within their university of choice? Otherwise, you're just puffing out your chest to promote your school, without answering the bloody question.

Regards,
Craig

 

[Taz4158]

Toronto for sure. ARE there other cities in Canada? I've heard rumours.

 

[desy]

Mu buddy got his music degree at U of S but had to go to the states to get his masters
Yes the biggest Vet colledge west is in Stoon and the Alberta gov't just gave it a million and a half for some kinda cattle project. We also have the synclotron the only nuclear accelerator lab in Canada.
Just like any other university our profs are retiring and they are looking for lots too

 

[Michael]

University of Montreal (French) and P.E.I. also have vet schools.

Michael

 

[AudiPorsche]

Hamilton smells like fish!

 

[Topher]

Thanks for all the input guys. I'm busy checking all the schools for available positions. The only thing I could see going against me is that I'm not a Canadian resident or citizen, and they would get higher priority. My wife doesn't need to be at a vet school, but it would be her best choice. She has a Master's in Virology and a PhD in Immunology, both from Cornell, which is where we met. So that small town thing won't be a problem, but we would prefer to be near (or in) a big city. I've been to Toronto many times, and that's the only place in Canada she's been, so it's at the top of our list, although we won't rule out other locations. I have found available jobs at a small college in Alberta, can't remember the name, but I've bookmarked for later. I gotta tidy up my CV and make it look good. I've got a lot of looking to do still, but GL makes an interesting point with the year 5 thing. Thanks alot! I guess I'll just send my CV to any school in the area with a music faculty and hope for good things. I'd hope that I would be an attractive candidate because I can teach multiple areas within the music faculty. That's the only way to get a job nowadays in the arts.

 

[cyclistca]

Toronto for sure. ARE there other cities in Canada? I've heard rumours.

Is Toronto still part of Canada? Gee ever time I go there I feel like I'm in the States .

Come to Montreal. Great city. Amazing night life. Lots of stuff to do. Great place if your into the outdoors.

Your best bet would be McGill University. Check it out.

McGill University

Montreal

 

[dennilfloss]

The changing face of Ottawa.

Ottawa, still party town for Corel former CEO. (sorry but to see the boob flashing photograph, you have to buy the newspaper).

Wasn't That A Party (The Irish Rovers)

 

[FrogDog]

Halifax is a great city. There's a Med. school right in the center of it too!

 

[polar]

if you like clean, quiet, skating, and don't mind 20cm of snow, here Carleton U. at Ottawa is a good place. (the only place on earth you can get to work through 10km of skating!!!)

I LOVE IT

 

[eakers]

montreal is a crazy city i hear.
im going on reading week to find the crazinesss and orgies...er...clubs

you like trees?
well then come to guelph

guelph is so cool, im so not kidding i mean if you exclude the obnoxiousness of the aggies.

*kat. <-- still says yay guelph (boo aggies)

 

[Burn]

Vancouver Island

 

[Topher]

And my wife wonders why I hang out at this BBS. I keep telling her it's good for things other than overclocking. Thanks for the replies guys, I'm checking out all possibilities. The only thing holding me back from Quebec is that there is a different permanent residence application for that province. Well, I don't speak French either. That doesn't help.

I liked every Canadian city I've been to (pretty much Toronto, Quebec and the maritime provinces minus Newfoundland), so I won't haev any cultural adjustments. I grew up in Pennsylvania so the weather won't bother me (PA was too warm for me). I really just want to find out where the Universities are located. Looks like our best opportunites may lie in the greater Toronto area. Now, can anyone from that area tell me about the cost of living? (Housing, utilities, food, etc.) When I moved to Australia, I found some things remarkably cheap, and others outrageously expensive. Thanks again.

 

[SSP]

cyclistca, Its more like, will Montreal be a part of Canada for long?


I sure hope so.

 

[Michael]

SSP - The PQ appears to be melting down right now. The racist hatred at the core of the hardline part of the party is getting exposed and the moderates are starting to flee the party.

I had to choose between moving to Toronto or moving to the US. I decided that Toronto was just like an American city except it was clean and much more boring. I moved to the NYC area and now have little to no desire to move back to Canada. If I did, it will be back to Montreal.

I am teaching my daughter French and she'll learn Spanish when she's older as well.

Michael

ps - I've had a few freinds and family move to Toronto. A couple liked it, but most moved further west or to the US after not too long.

 

[SSP]

I sure hope your right.

I guess its boring for the older people, but I love it here.

 

[GL]

Topher,

One thing I want to point out, is that quite honestly, Toronto is only good if you actually live in downtown Toronto. Toronto now includes the old suburbs. I live in one of those old suburbs now considered part of Toronto, and am constantly going elsewhere for entertainment and school. Downtown is where it's at and where you'll like it. The old suburbs are OK and are in the process of renewal (tearing down old houses, putting up massive ones or condos). But there is massive urban sprawl. The new suburbs (what has come to be known as the GTA) is even worse. There has been no planning whatsoever and you can subtract no less than 3 hours of your day commuting to and from downtown if that's where you're going to work. Living downtown seems expensive when you look at it for face value. But if you do the calculations detailed enough, it might work out much cheaper to live downtown (it might...you really have to do the calculations). Downtown Toronto has culture and isn't at the mercy of a thousand franchisers opening up shop at the corner of every intersection.

As I said, you could most definitely get away with not owning a car if you lived downtown. It's a big shock but yes it's possible to live without a car in North America. My brother lives beside the U of T with his wife. They have no car and he gets around just fine within the city. He only treks north to the suburbs when he's visiting us! They have no driveway to shovel in the winter because they live in a really old house that didn't come with one! They don't do grocery shopping as it's cheaper for them to have an Internet grocery delivery service do it for them. They don't have a lawn to tend to but have a beautiful park nearby. I sometimes envy the amount of leisure time that he has!

Definitely check out that U of T faculty housing...I'm honestly not sure if it's worth it but just look into it.

-GL

 

[Topher]

GL, thanks for that info. I live in Sydney, Australia now, and believe me, I know what urban sprawl is like. This has got to be one of the worst cities for that. I don't mind shovelling snow, aand I'd like to have a lawn to take care of someday, but these are all minor issues. U of T doesn't have any openings in the music faculty (well, one that I don't qualify for), but York does, and I'm still checking some of the others nearby. Some of these Universities have web pages that aren't easy to find what you want.

 

[elSmoko]

I'm in Regina, Saskatchewan... its the capital of Saskatchewan, the most abused province in canada We're in the praries, but Regina isn't like farmer style or anything. Its the perfect place with the perfect pace to raise children, lots of great things to do, but not crazy busy. I'm planning on moving away in a couple years, but I know I'll come back when i'm raising my (future) children because it is so perfect for that. Take a look at it before you make any decisions, its a nice place dude!

- ElSmoko

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sorry, as per university information.... right now the University has really strong Education, Engineering and Film programs. Music is a vancouver thing I tells ya, and vet school I'm not sure if there is anything of the sort down here.
housing is cheap though, and the cost of living is most excellent compared to the majority of those ontario type places.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Hey Topher have you found this summer in Oz too hot?

 

[cyclistca]

Its more like, will Montreal be a part of Canada for long?

Is Quebec still part of Canada? I'm sure it will be in my lifetime. Right now in Quebec interest in separation among the common man is at an all time low. The only people interested in separating are the hard line morons in the PQ party.

As to not speaking French. It's not really an issue in Montreal. My French is horrible and I get along fine.

Another bonus of Montreal is it has not become the big urban sprawl that TO is. I live close to downtown Montreal and work in the western suburbs. It takes me a total of 20 minutes to get to work by car. Try that in TO .