freeagent
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Yeah.. -50 with the wind will turn your pecker into a peanut.
Living in other parts of Canada
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freeagent
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After -20 the snow squeaks at a different frequency for every negative 5c shift.. at -35 it makes me wish for spring lol. Not a fan of summer though to be honest. It gets too hot, and winter gets too cold. Maybe I am just too lazy lol.. but I do between 30-35K steps per day at work according to my phoneBut it's a dry cold........
moocow
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I hate that drive to Richmond. I used to work there while living in the North Shore for 3 years. By the end, I was very close to driving into a pole instead of going into work (not a joke). Now the drive is even worst in Vancouver.
The reason I kind of crap on Toronto is that I spend my early childhood in Asia. After getting used to Vancouver, going back there is very uncomfortable for me, just nothing but concrete and cars end to end all day long really doesn't appeal to me. Looking at Toronto via Google Map give me the same vibe. Saying LA is similar to Toronto kind of solidify that bias.
I don't do any sort of outdoor activities, hell I don't even have someone to go to cultural events with. I barely have enough upper body strength to shovel snow in Vancouver so anywhere else would be a snow blower for me.
So the question is just how MAGA is the prairies? Not like I'm looking for Cali level of lefty (hell Vancouver is a bit too lefty before Sims came along) but more of a moderate / centre right in terms of political standing.
great_big_abyss
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Rural Manitoba is conservative, but Winnipeg leans to the left. So much so that it skews provincial government to the left more than the right. Similar in Saskatchewan, although they have more rural population, and their provincial government skews right.
Probably better to just look up the specific riding before you move to see who the incumbent is and what they stand for. It's more about your immediate neighbourhood I'd say than the province as a whole.
Shadowmeph
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oh yes the other thing the skeeters can sometime be mistaken as Eagles lol++ to Ottawa being a "pretty" city. It's also always struck me as clean.
No idea on the work environment though.
As far as winterpeg goes.... I recall talking to a friend who had just been posted there the year prior and his first comment was to question why they have screens on their doors/windows since the skeeters are so thick on them that there's no airflow....
great_big_abyss
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They carry away babies and young children if not strapped into their strollers...
A life-size reproduction of a Manitoba Mosquito, in Komarno, MB:
FreeKnight
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Shadowarez lives in YK and it's even worse. I did too when I was a kid.
My 'gap year because I was poor' between High school and university I went back to Yellowknife and worked at the construction of the Diavik mine way north of the country. It was the most miserable cold I've ever been in. Think we hit -71C with windchill on a day that was -49/50 without the wind.
I definitely remember some -60 windchill days in YK as a kid.
Yellowknife is brutal for mosquitos too. Doesn't get the blackflies like Manitoba, but the horseflies are pretty brutal and take a good chunk out of you when they bite.
At least Edm/Calg only really get mosquitos and they're not too bad. The minimal bugs alone make the LML of BC a pretty big perk there.
freeagent
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The coldest I rode my bike back from work was -55 with the wind. No long johns.. it was the first time I wanted to have a rest in the snow bank.. man I was cold.
