I've been doing some serious consideration on whether I want to stay in Calgary or not. On one hand I really like the city itself, our family/friends are here, traffic is the best of any major city I've spent time in, and having the mountains right next door is great. However the weather is terrible for the most part, the economy is struggling along with no immediate hope of improvement, and I can't stand the politics of this province. My wife and I both grew up in small towns and have no desire to go back to that type of lifestyle, so staying in Canada means options are limited for major cities. Vancouver is out, almost impossible to buy a house and I couldn't handle 5 months of rain. Toronto is just as bad housing wise, and everyone I know there has at least a 1 hour commute to work. I don't speak French so I assume that would harm any job prospects if I tried to move to Montreal
Looking outside of Canada at other English speaking countries, the US, UK and Australia are all a mess in their own ways. Feels like I'm stuck here with no better alternatives
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