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alik
Big Wall climber
edmonton
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Not sure about okanagan/kamloops option. Seems like the only real benefit is year round rock climbing. Sounds great except there's almost nothing longer than 2 pitches without driving 3-5 hours... I've heard there is a lot of great mt biking around kamloops, but don't know much about it.
You can climb rock year round in canmore/calgary as well. Same deal as in squamish though, with fairly limited options on where to climb, and only maybe 5 days a month of "good" rock climbing weather. You can climb on yam mid winter on the warm/sunny days, which has 100 or so trad routes up to 12 pitches! Good news is the ice is always in, and you'll only get a handful of days mid winter when it's too cold to go out. Tons of sunshine too which will be a pleasant change from living on the coast.
There is plenty of good mountain biking near calgary as well. With a lot of it close enough to town to hit after work in the spring/summer.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Calgary is a great place to live and work. The only drawback is the ice season is longer than the rock season. Weather is more moderate than you think as we only have a few weeks of truly cold weather.
The rock climbing is suprisingly good with lots of choice and lots of good rock if you go to the right spot.
Lots of work in town for IT guys due to the oil/gas and financial industries here.
You can email me if you want more info
Penticton is a nice area but very few decent jobs.
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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To afford a house in Vancouver you just need to be creative. Buy a fixer upper, bite the bullet and move into the basement, rent out the top floor and build a laneway house.
Dont have much equity in your current place... find someone in a similar spot and buy a house together, sell them the basement for 300 and take the top for 5, build a laneway house and start down the path of being a homeowner. There are many detached duplex's that go for half the cost of a normal home. There are many in Richmond, right next to the Canada line.
There are ways to afford this place, just takes a bit of work and elbow grease....the chinese and east indians figured it out, move everyone in save up and buy another one...keep doing that.
Good luck
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supafly
Trad climber
vancouver, bc
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2013 - 10:10pm PT
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I thought of another benefit to squamish .... a totally kick ass gondola is going in this spring!
let's not get distracted now :)
thanks for the advice.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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What's Wrong With Winnipeg?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Isn't Bountiful where all the fundamentalist "Mormons" and gondola-huggers live?
Apparently the western suburbs of Calgary are quite nice, if you don't mind long, windy and sometimes quite cold winters.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Can you hook up a remote sever access dealie and work from home? If so, Squamish would be an even better location, and you don't need to drive so much, just when stuff gets really screwed up.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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If you're thinking of buying in Squamish, or indeed anywhere that's normally 30 minutes or more from where you'll work, and then commuting - rent first. Try the commute through several months, see if it works. For example, Squamish to downtown Vancouver is normally about 50 minutes during commute times, assuming decent conditions and not speeding unduly. It can be quite another story during the winter, not to mention if there's an accident, rockfall, or the like. Many who do commute, carpool.
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