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Originally Posted by West Karma
No, Chilliwack is famous for it's farms - miles and miles of corn fields!! My wife's father is a logger 1 hour north of Kamloops and he can tell horror stories of the whole Pine Beetle thing up that way!!
Chilliwack is right on the Transcanada, about 60 miles east of Vancouver. Chilliwack is known to have a very low cost of living!
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To me Chilliwack was famous for it's call the mayor sign and that nice rich smell of dairy farms! Although the cost of living is much cheaper than closer to the rest of the coast it's no longer cheap by any stretch. Still it is a nice area.
My mom still lives in Kamloops and I actually would like to move back there myself (Unfortunately the rest of the world figured out what a crap hole Edmonton was and now I don't think I'll ever sell my fricken house here). But no doubt the beatle kill in the area is pretty significant. But a place like Kamloops is only partially dependent on forestry. If you want a one horse town, go to Prince George where it's pretty much all forestry and a city who's cycle can be pretty nasty. I first went there in 96 and things were okay. But 5 years later in 2001 when I left it was pretty ugly and many people who had bought houses 5 years earlier were happily taking a 50% bath to get out. But last I heard things are okay up there. But it's a rough cyclical town.