as a guy who lives/works in Toronto. i gotta say folks back in CGY have it pretty good. my friends in CGY, working in Oil/Gas for the most part, are making an absolute killing salary wise. the price of real-estate is inflated, sure, but getting an affordable house for people working in oil/gas is still fairly "easy"....
now comparing that to toronto is a much different story. Earning 100K individually here really doesn't get you much. Any half decent home (detached, 2 garage, 2k sq foot) in a half decent area (burbs included) easily runs you 600-700K (plus the ~4k annual property tax).
i often consider moving back to calgary, while keeping my toronto job (my work doesn't require me to be based out of toronto), because i think my dollar would go a lot further there. unfortunately, the wife has no interest in re-locating (born/raised here in toronto).
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