I was reading a report today and found an interesting article with the best places to live in Canada. I couldn’t do a lot of research as some of the links from the Canadian Business are not working.
However, it is still a good list and as an immigrant you should look carefully where to live when you arrive in Canada. Here’s the top 10:
- Ottawa (Ontario)
- Halifax (Nova Scotia)
- Québec city (Québec)
- Guelph (Ontario)
- Fredericton (New Brunswick)
- Kingston (Ontario)
- Moncton (New Brunswick)
- London (Ontario)
- Victoria (British Columbia)
- Gander (Newfoundland)
From the list above, Ontario has 4 cities. Alberta, the richest province in Canada didn’t show any cities at all (based on the top 10). Calgary is the first city from Alberta but ranked 28. And why this happened?
Money is not everything. Calgary has the biggest average family income ($104,200) compared with Ottawa ($83,300) and is the fastest in population growth (Calgary 13.4% against Ottawa with 5.9%).
Looks like that if you’re planning to live in Calgary you could easily find a job (3.7% unemployed rate), but the cost of life there is more expensive. As an immigrant in Canada you should look for these elements and also consider taxes in Canada, transit in Canada, health in Canada, weather in Canada, jobs in Canada, etc.
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jeanne 01.29.08 at 9:22 pm
Why Toronto is not on this list? Actually I guess why but did they give any reason for that?
We are not sure that we’ll live here forever, we would really like to live in Montreal but my French is not enough to find a job there.
Gean Oliveira 01.29.08 at 9:28 pm
Jeanne, Toronto is ranked 12
I did not check Toronto with Calgary or Ottawa, but I think it is a good idea to do it, as we’re living here, too.
rose 07.04.08 at 2:02 pm
I live in Ottawa. Because job, I have to go sounthest of Ontario. Kind of sad, because Ottawa hospitals do not have privilige for me.
Gean Oliveira 07.22.08 at 11:33 pm
Hi Rose, do you enjoy living in Ottawa? It is considered the best place to live in Canada. Do you agree?