What would it take for you to move to Saskatchewan?

[CBC News]

Saskatchewan can no longer be considered just a have-not province of seemingly endless farmers' fields, the premier of the Prairie province said Monday as he appealed to workers to head west to find jobs.
"It's not just a great place to make a living — it's a great place to make a life. That's our message when we're here."
Strong commodities markets and an abundance of natural resources like potash and uranium are boosting Saskatchewan's economy, and now the province is attracting residents instead of losing them, as has been the trend over the past 20 years.
In his speech, Wall sprinkled in some little-known facts about his province: it sells more oil to the United States than Kuwait, and Saskatchewan uranium provides six per cent of America's electricity.
Wall's government is hoping to woo laid-off workers from Ontario's battered manufacturing sector. Saskatchewan politicians brought 50 companies from the Prairie province to Toronto for the country's largest job fair, which starts Tuesday.
There are an estimated 10,000 unfilled jobs in Saskatchewan.
Read the full story.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/09/30/ont-sask.html
What would it take for you to move to Saskatchewan?



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[karrie]

It wouldn't take a lot to get me to move to Sask. I love the province. Gorgeous place to live. A bit racist... lol... but gorgeous.

 

[Colpy]

Invasion of the East coast by flesh-eating vampire aliens........that are bullet proof.

:lol:

 

[Scott Free]

A loaded gun pointed at my head - maybe.

 

[Tonington]

Ocean front property, and good water for growing fish/shellfish.

 

[Avro]

What would it take?

Hell to freeze over and a federal NDP majority.

 

[Ron in Regina]

I was born here and like many young people, I left to work in Alberta for better pay, ect...
I found a wife and built a life based on that higher pay (with higher bills, ect...) and had a
child. A couple of years later, the relationship went south, and I became a single parent.

I weighed out the options, and moved back to Saskatchewan with my Son knowing that
I would not earn the wages I was use to, but at that time most things where comparatively
less expensive in Saskatchewan than in Alberta. Back in Saskatchewan I was able to, on
a smaller single income, afford child care when I was at work and to purchase (not rent)
a home. This would have been next to impossible for me to accomplish at that time if I'd
have stayed in Alberta. That was almost seventeen years ago.

Today though the undervalued housing market has corrected itself and Saskatchewan is
leading the nation in its inflation rate. The two biggest cities are Regina and Saskatoon,
and in either of them rushhour means it'll take you fifteen minutes to get from one end of
the city to the other end. We here have seen housing prices almost double in the last
couple of years, but someone from the outside looking in may (or may not) still find that
it's much less than what they're currently experiencing.

Winter in Saskatchewan can be an unreal experience depending on where you're coming
from. My Daughter-in-Law is from Utah and on her second trip to Saskatchewan the
temerature was hovering in the -50c range with the windchill for several consecutive days.
that thankfully is an exception and not the rule. Winters of -20c to -35c are more common.
Summers here are beautiful with sunsets like few places on the planet, especially at harvest
time. +39c and hot is really quit managable when the humidity is low. When the humidity
does go up at times in the summer though, it just feels like Toronto.

You just haven't lived until you've experienced a Prairie thunderstorm either. There's just
no way to describe it. They're different here than elsewhere. Rain can bounce four feet
back up off the pavement in a good storm, and nothing blocks your view of the lightning.
The sound of thunder can travel for a loooong distance if nothing in the terrain interupts
those sound waves. Anyone knocking Saskatchewan, I'd bet, has never lived here...

 

[Tonington]

The thunder sotrms ARE awesome out that way. I lived in Assiniboia for part of grade one. My father grew up there, but now lives in Alberta.

Big skies...can see for many kilometers, which is rare in Nova Scotia, unless you're on the water

 

[lone wolf]

Saskatchewan....

Easy to draw - hard to spell

 

[Ron in Regina]

A Prairie thunderstorm that you can remember from when you where six years old. That's one
hell of an endorsement of what I was try'n to say. You have to experience one to get it.

 

[Walter]

What would it take for you to move to Saskatchewan?

Real AGW.

 

[Ron in Regina]

What would it take for you to move to Saskatchewan?

Real AGW.

Please excuse my ignorance, but AGW? I've tried googling it an all sorts of things have
come up, but I'm assuming NOT what you are referring to.

Atmospheric Gravity Waves? Anthropogenic Global Warming? Anti-Global Warming?
Automatic Girth Welder? Autonomous Guided Weapon? Accident Generated Water?
Allowable Gross Weight? And so on and so forth....

 

[Lester]

It wouldn't take much for me to move there - Housings relatively cheap, lots of jobs, real freindly people and those prairie light shows Ron's talking about.

 

[Colpy]

Invasion of the East coast by flesh-eating vampire aliens........that are bullet proof.

:lol:

I'm just kidding Ron, really.

I'd probably move to Saskatchewan even if the flesh-eating vampires were earthlings .

 

[Vanni Fucci]

If they made Alberta the world's biggest amusement park, and Sask was the only place to park my moped...




{I don't really have a moped...]

 

[Avro]

Please excuse my ignorance, but AGW? I've tried googling it an all sorts of things have
come up, but I'm assuming NOT what you are referring to.

Atmospheric Gravity Waves? Anthropogenic Global Warming? Anti-Global Warming?
Automatic Girth Welder? Autonomous Guided Weapon? Accident Generated Water?
Allowable Gross Weight? And so on and so forth....

That's what old Walt meant.....guess he's moving.

 

[Ron in Regina]

That's what old Walt meant.....guess he's moving.

Ahh....Thank You!

 

[Ron in Regina]

I forgot to mention the Northern Lights. Out of the cities and on the open Prairie, there's
nothing to obstruct the view. If you've ever heard of the artist, Glen Scrimshaw, you'll
know where he gets his inspiration from...Aside from the 100,000 lakes, rivers, and
streams...more than half of the province is forest (the northern 1/2), and if you're
coming from northern Ontario you'd never know you've left northern Ontario.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Where else is it socially acceptable to lounge around a firepit in your snowsuits out on the
farm in February doing "Cans" while watching the satellites cross the sky??? You can really
see them due to a combination of a lack of light pollution, and a lack of plain old pollution.
Here you can track a satellite with the naked eye out in the country from one horizon to the
other, I kid you not. Oh yeah...for those that don't know what "Cans" are:

You'll need
: a metal coffee Can, with a lid.
: a tea towel
: clear booze (vodka, or white rum, or whatever)
: a can of frozen juice (you'll need a bunch eventually)
: icing sugar
: fresh mint leaves
: bags of ice cubes

Take a few of the mint leaves and twist 'em up to release the oil, and then rub them
all over inside the coffee Can (removes the aluminum and coffee taste), then just
throw the leaves in the bottom of the can and dump in a whole can of frozen fruit juice
(or pink ice tea, or whatever...), add an equal amount of booze (using the empty juice
can), fill the coffee Can with ice, and a heaping table spoon of icing sugar.

Now here comes the rules. I didn't make them up, but simply follow them. Put the lid
on the coffee can and wrap the tea towel around the can. Holding the ends of the can
wrapped in the towel, shake the can until frost forms on the can and the tea towel
sticks to it. Guys have to shake the can in from of them and women have to shake the
can above their heads. Open the lid and drink, and pass the "Can." The Can cannot be
set down by anyone and has to be passed to someone who drinks and passes the Can.
Whomever finishes the Can, makes the next one...and whomever finishes that one
makes the next one...and so on and so forth. The Can will frost up when shaken within
a minute or so whether it's -15c or +40c. Trust me, it happens. At big gatherings, there
might be two or three Cans floating around at the same time.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Saskatchewan....

Easy to draw - hard to spell

I've seen that one on the front of a T-Shirt. On the back was,
"Regina, the city who's name rhymes with fun!!!"