reavenance wrote:
Come to Atlantic Canada, the recession barely touched us, relatively speaking.
It's actually kind of ironic; everyone going into trades here in Atlantic Canada usually heads out to the oilfields in Alberta lookin for big money, and easy jobs. They found them in droves, good money, more jobs than people, etc. I actually had a friend with no marketable skills whatsoever who went out there, he worked at McDonald's for 2 years there - and somehow was making more than I was making back here working for the government(granted, with the difference in cost of living I was still making a ton more than him on a relative scale).
Then the recession hit, now they're all coming back, hat in hand, looking for jobs back home, where the market seemed to remain stable. Sure am glad I found my career while they were all off diggin for oil.
I was born in New Brunswick--that's where my mom is from and my whole family is right now. My cousin decided not to move to Edmonton. And a bunch of others came back from Toronto.
Where are you in New Brunswick? I was born and have family in Perth Andover (and florenceville,Grand Falls, Hartland, etc. etc)--though my mom is actually from River De Chute-which isn't really a town or a village, just an area. But a bunch of other people live in Fredricton.