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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2160116" data-attributes="member: 7240">A few points:1. I don't get any sense the original poster is even reading this thread.2. Vancouver is only more expensive when it comes to housing. Restaurant food is about the best value for money you're going to find anywhere on this continent north of the Rio Grande. Ditto for public utilities, transit and auto insurance. Groceries are cheaper too, unless you really like cheese. If you could somehow avoid paying rent, Vancouver would be the cheapest place in the country but once you factor rent in, it's the most expensive.3. In terms of cost of living, Vancouver, Ontario and Southern Alberta are probably the most expensive. However, the usual rule here is that cost of living varies inversely with the unemployment rate -- except in Vancouver where unemployment is fairly high and so is cost of living. 4. Celebrim, are you aware that Saskatchewan has been run almost continuously by socialists since 1944 and that Manitoba has just re-elected the socialists to a second term in office in a row (their 5th I believe since 1965)? They're red states but not in the way you think they are. You see, in Canada, being rural doesn't have a whole lot to do with being right-wing.</blockquote>