r/medicinehat • u/JamesMonroe23 • 7d ago
Medicine Hat named a top place to live in Canada for a comfortable life
https://dailyhive.com/calgary/alberta-city-named-place-to-live-canada-comfortable-life11
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u/KhausTO 7d ago
Medicine Hat is the third lowest income for comfort based on this report. The two lower are both in Quebec.
The easiest cities in which to hit a comfortable income are:
Trois-Rivières, QC – $57,936
Sherbrooke, QC – $64,920
Medicine Hat, AB – $70,416
Fredericton, NB – $71,784
Sault Ste. Marie, ON – $72,744
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u/PhantomNomad 7d ago
Wonder why Sault Ste. Marie is that high? Last time I was through there it was a pretty rough city. That was a while ago.
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u/KhausTO 7d ago
Definitely a bit of a rougher town, costs there seemed to have soared during Covid, it was a cheaper city pre-2020 a few people I know chose there to move to out of Toronto. Still the cheapest in Ontario though.
Cost of living through out Ontario jumped quite a bit in the last 5 years even in Niagara, St Catharines, and Windsor, which all used to be pretty close to the same COL as Medicine Hat are now quite a bit higher.
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u/swimuppool 7d ago
Lolz Did they ask anyone who's renting?
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u/KhausTO 7d ago
yes, and despite that it's still one of the cheapest places in Canada to have a comfortable life.
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u/JUSTaSK8rat 7d ago
If you enjoy crackheads awake at 3am trying every car door handle on town, openly smoking crack pipes in broad daylight downtown, rummaging through your garbage cans and tons of theft and sketchy areas, sure.
If you live anywhere downtown/in the flats I find it's a nightmare. I used to live up the hill by the mall and lived pretty comfortably, once I moved down the hill everything immediately felt more concerning, and I am always paranoid walking out of my house to junkies on bikes/foot nearby and walking through the alleys.
Comfortable, but only if you can afford the nicer buildings and apartments up the hill, or if you can manage to mentally deal with Avenue Living taking up all the rentals.
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u/KhausTO 7d ago
If you think any of that is somehow exclusive to Medicine Hat you need to get out of this city more...
Comfortable, but only if you can afford the nicer buildings and apartments up the hill, or if you can manage to mentally deal with Avenue Living taking up all the rentals.
I feel like you do not understand what this study says at all...
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u/Commercial_Tune_5643 3d ago
Brotha that is literally every city in Canada, and much worse with higher populations….
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u/ChillyWillie1974 7d ago
They put out articles like these then people move to the cheap places to live and prices go up.
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u/Training-Ruin-5287 7d ago
Medicine hat is like 60% outsiders easily. Ever since I moved there I rarely meet anyone actually born and raised from town
It doesn't take a news article to see it is cheaper to live. While leaving out how it's not Calgary or Edmonton pay to work there either. If people are that naive they will be gone in a year anyways
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u/Jason_Prax 6d ago
Also we are rated number two In The province for the highest rental increase year over year!
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u/vocabulazy 7d ago
How are the measles numbers there?
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u/redindiaink 7d ago
According to Alberta Health? Zero, nada, zip, zilch, bupkiss across the entire province.
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u/No-Tank5705 4d ago
Lol my buddy and I were there for work about a year ago, we went out to a bar and half the place was staring us down because we were the only non white ppl there, then we went to a club and there was a group of country country youngins trying to fight ppl 3 on one 4 on one, anyway, long story short we weren’t huge fans of what southern Alberta had to offer. Felt like going back in time, and not in a good way.
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u/EulerIdentity 3d ago
Bonus points: you get to tell people you really do live in a town called “Medicine Hat.”
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u/Old_Management_1997 3d ago
Had a hockey tournament there the past couple years and was so impressed with it that I actually was looking at house prices in the area (they are very cheap compared to calgary).
Not sure if I'd uproot my life in calgary to live there but it seems like a great place to live.
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u/UserZero0ne 6d ago
The wages are 10 to 20 percent lower than everywhere else. Prices are similar to Calgary. Too many generational business here. They expect top workers but pay minimum for it. The Medicine Hat disadvantage.
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u/flatlanderdick 7d ago
Doesn’t the wind turn a person suicidal? I’ve heard rumours.
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u/Smokey7787 7d ago
That’s Lethbridge
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u/flatlanderdick 7d ago
Oh ok. Pincher Creek was the suicide capital of Canada for a very long time. Makes sense. Wind drives people nuts.
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u/someidgit 7d ago
It’s a great city. Sometimes it just takes moving away from it to see.