[troutman]

Winters are mild compared to Calgary and Spring comes early. The valley tends to get overcast in the winter - not rainy, but cloudy for long stretches. Traffic can be bad around the bridge. Vancouver is about 4 hours away.

The good side of the tourism, is there are so many great restaurants in the Valley and at the wineries. Many seniors retire there, and driving can be frustrating when you get behind people driving 40 km/h everywhere.

I like all the fresh produce you can buy at the side of the road for much of the year.

Kelowna is "big" enough, but Penticton sometimes felt "small" where everyone knew each other's business. In winter it was a ghost town. Big drug problem in the Okanagan.

Ideally I would like a weekend/summer place there, but I would miss my events too much in the Big City to live there full-time.