I've lived there. No thanks. I've also lived in BC Alta Man and now reside in Ont.
There are some nice things about Regina, like it's cheap to drive there as you don't spend more than fifteen minutes going anywhere in the city. Everyone knows that Saskatoon is the pick of the litter though.
The bad points are pretty bad though. The winters are brutal. Sure it's dryer but still twenty feet of snow is twenty feet of snow. 35 below is still freaking cold. And the bloody wind. The only good thing about that is that once it stops blowing, you find the damn mosquitoes are cleared for flight. They travel in battle groups hungry for blood.
There is a crime problem in Regina. Mostly to do with angry native youth and other disenfranchised kids stuck there and pissed that they are missing out on the cool stuff elsewhere. Which of course they are. How many times can you drive up and down Albert street with your friends before you go mental?
Once you get outside the cities, you can find some very nice places. I loved going to La Ronge to fish and hike. They have some world class golf north of there now too.
My Grampa had a farm just outside of Prince Albert that was a land of magic for me each summer.
If anything, west of Lake of the Woods til you get to Calgary is an open canvas that no one there has had the brains to develop. Winnipeg has a few nice aspects about it. Most are hidden though. The Forks as sophisticated as nearly any down town Toronto hotspot yet much less snooty. But it has no staying power. After an hour your done and left wanting more.
I've thought that a strip of casinos like Las Vegas would be just the thing. But hell no, no one would want that. Billions could pour into either province but they would loose their delusion that there is no crime or lack of services. There are plenty of places that could be turned into a Mecca for something anything, yet it seems that all the investors, movers and shakers are either scared away or simply buggered when they try to develop.
So it goes elsewhere.
I've been to see all it has to offer out there and there isn't much.
