Where's the best place in the country to live?
If you've ever wondered about picking up and moving, you've probably thought long and hard about what makes a community a good place to live.
MoneySense's most recent ranking of Canada's Best Places to Live attempts to tally every important aspect of numerous communities in Canada, taking into account weather, jobs and home prices – as well as public safety and access to health care.
At the top of the list you’ll find Ottawa, Kingston and Burlington. Bringing up the rear, cities to avoid include La tuque, New Glasgow and Williams Lake.
For a more financially-focussed positioning, the folks at Turbotax have concentrated on places that can mean more money in your pocket.
Best place in the country to be stinking rich: Alberta
While you’re paying more income tax in Alberta in the first income bracket of other provinces, the more income you make, the better off you are. If your annual income is in the six-figure range, Alberta is the place to be.
Best places to be a student: Alberta, Ontario, Québec
Alberta edges out Québec as the best place to be a student, offering a monthly credit of $654 per each full time month and $196 per each part time month, whereas Québec offers a flat rate for education.
Students in Quebec receive a tax credit of $1940 for each term of full time education.
Ontario also has an increased monthly education credit amount compared to some other provinces: $481 per each full time month and $144 per each part time month.
Best place to be a new parent: Québec
While Manitoba has a Prenatal Benefit, which provides parents-to-be with less than a $32,000 income a monthly benefit during pregnancy, expecting parents in Québec get the biggest bang for their baby.
The monthly amounts received from the Régie des rentes du Québec greatly exceed all other provinces, on top of the national child tax benefit. Single parents receive additional benefits as well.
If you had your choice, where would you like to be? What’s the most important criterion for you?
By Gordon Powers, MSN Money
Posted by: Natalie | Mar 3, 2022 4:36:47 PM
This was a question about where is the best place to live in the country...You were to give your opinions on where that would be...Not to personally attack each other's opinions...Everyone has the right to speak their minds but you should not attack one's personal opinion on here...that is not what this is for...
Posted by: Chris | Mar 3, 2022 5:30:24 PM
Just about anywhere but the prairies - bunch of damn rednecks
Posted by: Val | Mar 3, 2022 6:09:42 PM
HAHAHA Tes,so glad you are staying in old filthy Europe
Posted by: Anastasia | Mar 3, 2022 7:16:06 PM
For those of you who slam Canada we don't need you here. And if it was between Alberta and BC. Bc is the place to be the people are much nicer and the air is cleaner. When it comes down to it, it is where you most feel at home, not to be dictated by some stranger and their poll.
Posted by: Trixie | Mar 5, 2022 5:01:16 PM
Canadians seem to love slamming each other...oh, but we are such a great country! (A little sarcasm there.) Why don't we just appreciate the beauty that each country has to offer. However, if I had to pick, I'd pick Alberta. (I live in Ontario.) I visited Alberta and didn't want to go back home (Ontario.) However, I needed a paycheque, so Ontario it was. Anyway, Alberta, ahhhh!
Posted by: Bill Stewart | Mar 24, 2021 10:54:06 AM
Canada only the greatest country in the world,Christina Lake B.C. Only the best of that world, I get up evey morning and thank who ever settled this beautiful part of the world ,and enjoy every minute of every day.
Posted by: anna | Mar 24, 2021 1:47:29 PM
NATASHA and TES
Tes- canada is a beautiful country. there is no doubt about that. come visit my town of Nelson BC, if you want to see some beauty. And by the way, not all of Canada has -40 degree weather. Generalizing the way you have about Canada and its weather makes you seem ignorant and close-minded. Glad you left.
Having said that, as a socialist at heart, I envy the way things work in some European countries where education is free.
NATASHA- it sounds to me like you need an education, before you decide what students should have to do for theirs...and for what it is worth, it is obvious that you don't know much about anything and are poorly informed. Read some statistics about how economically beneficial it is for a country to have high levels of educated people. Educated people= less crime, less health problems, safer cleaner communities, and more money for your country=life is easier for EVERYONE. Try google-ing "the social determinants of health" and see what you can find. Try reading something, ANYTHING before you spout useless, archaic, retarded drivel. Please, for the love of the gods, go read something other than the Inquirer. PLEASE!! Your idiocy is mind-boggling. That's it in a nutshell.
Education is a universal right, we just don't value it as such in Canada.
Posted by: Debbie - Calgary | Mar 24, 2021 2:12:01 PM
I so wish EVERYONE that complained about Canada would just go back to where they came from, or if they were born here, just go away. Seriously, we don't want you!
I am born and raised Southern Alberta, and have lived in Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Calgary, & Fernie BC.
The best place to live (in my opinion) is Calgary. So much to do, 50 minutes away from the Rockie Mountains, 3 hours away from beautiful Montana, and decent jobs so that we don't have to pack up and leave.
I have been to Ontario twice, and both times it involved Toronto. Never again. A completely different mentality out there!
I have been to Victoria quite a few times, and while it is very beautiful, I couldn't hack all that rain. Sure, it snows a lot in Alberta, but where else will you get beautiful sunshine while you are digging your car out of a snowbank? :) The snows just gives us all character!
Posted by: Dale on the left coast | Mar 24, 2021 3:03:42 PM
Tes . . . most of Europe is going broke, funding the failing counties (PIIGS), as the Socialist programs are cut and the taxes pile up . . . the only way you could be having fun is if you are on the dole!!! Then you have to deal with all the nutty mooslems that are growing problems.
-40 . . . not where I live . . . remember the winter Olympics?
Canada is the best performing economy in the G8 . . . how's that 10$ a gallon gas workin out for you???
Posted by: michael | Mar 24, 2021 7:04:19 PM
LOL..I just read "novotruth,s comment on canada..that one has it in the bag.My daughter will be 18 in 5 yrs..and am getting out..another country..I don,t wanna be completely gray haired before leaving.
Posted by: jani | Mar 24, 2021 7:47:28 PM
I just moved to Alberta from BC and it does not feel like I am living in Canada. There are so many ethnic groups here. White people are the minority. They don't speak English, prefer to talk in their native language, yet hold jobs all over the place. I went to the super store and asked which aisle had crab meat and the response from the workers was in a heavy laced accent, "Ah sorry, I don't understand. I don't know" It sucks here!
Posted by: city slicker | Mar 24, 2021 11:34:00 PM
the best place to live in canada is as far away from the city, any city as possible, where you can grow food, fish, hunt and not have to worry about traffic. there are less hoodlums in the country and they are easier to deal with. you know them and they know you, generally they leave you alone, in the city the crime rate is insane, the costs are through the roof, you are taxed to death, you don't know your neighbors and the smell of car fumes and what not. where i live when the odd car drives down the road, it feel like a violation, the air stinks for five or ten minutes after it has gone.
the drawbacks to country living, work is near impossible to find, you have to be poor or a migrant worker, there are fewer social activities to do, drug and alcoholism is rampant and in some cases you know your neighbor when you wish you did'nt.
to each his own.
Posted by: Bill | Apr 22, 2021 2:28:42 AM
Right here!
Posted by: John | Apr 22, 2021 2:36:42 AM
I live in Southern Ontario, on Lake Huron. Beautiful private beach, clean water, and peaceful. I love the heat and humidity during the summers. Makes me enjoy the water even more.
Posted by: brisle | Jul 6, 2021 10:27:07 PM
Hello I live in Victoria BC. moved here from London Ont. 30 years ago . It was a cheap place to live you could aford a house ,but today you need to make about 25 dollars an hour to buy a 537sqf condo price at 234,000 dollars so it is still a beautiful place to live ,the climates is mild all year , oh and we do get snow here too lol. But if i moved back to Ont I could buy two house for the price of one here .
Posted by: Garry Gulliver | Feb 19, 2022 3:28:11 PM
If Newfoundland is considered the foreskin of Canada,where would the clitoris be?Hmm!How applicable is that comment to the topic?In my 60 years residing in NL,I have never been aware that NL is considered the foreskin of Canada!Since when is Canada considered one big penis from coast to coast to coast?If Canada is considered in the masculine vein,what does the reference to the female genitalia have to do with this?You state that your name is Franklin and you ask 'where would the clitoris be' in this country of ours;I suspect you are female and if that is the case ,maybe the answer to your question is this:the clitoris is next to your Canadian asshole!Check it out!It certainly take all kinds to make the world go 'round!Duh!