papa-bear

I have not spent much time back East so I can't 100% tell you about the weather and what it is like to live there. All my info on that is from the weather reports I hear when they do the cross country reports. I also had one manager that moved out here to build a functional IT group, after he had been here for a few years, he made the decision to not move back to Toronto and got them to work things out so he could stay here and work with the 3 hour time difference. Me, I made a career decision one time to NOT move to Toronto even though it would have brought my salary up by about 1/3 and greatly enhanced my career growth oportunities. I like it out here that much.

Historically Eastern Canada is more business oriented and I have heard the work stress is higher where it is lower out here. I think that has changed over the years with more and more companies testing the waters and relocating some of their major head offices this way. I don't notice it much yet but that could be the frog in the pot of water not noticing it is slowly coming ot a boil scenerio.

On the job front, there are alot of technical jobs out here right now. In the past 5 years, Alberta (Calgary) has grown the most in the IT sector. Problem I see with going across the mountains is you get the cold winters and hot summers. The further East you go, it sounds like it gets much more humid with the heat. I don't know if I would like that to live in, vacation, okay, day-day life is questionable.

Check out Weather - Environment Canada I think they have some historic files so you can check out the major cities to see temperatures, humidity, etc...

I am just biased to the West coast.

pb