[Greg Reid]

I ain't going outside in '-' anything! Put any number you want next to that '-'...I ain't goin'...lol

[unruhjonny]

/\ /\ ha!

I'd love to have the luxury of making that decision, but as far as I know, there is only one region in Canada that can go a whole year without snow - and I have zero inclination of ever moving there.
Being a resident of the United States, you have the luxury of having many regions of hte country that don't get frigid....

wanna adopt me and my family?

[400 4spd.]

Originally Posted by unruhjonny

I laugh whole heartedly at your "cold" 54 degrees....
BAH-HA-HA!!



(someone, please help get me and my family out of this frigid wasteland!!!)

Easy enough. Enter across the other border.
54 again today, btw.

[unruhjonny]

I aspire to do things legitimately;

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by unruhjonny

/\ /\ ha!

I'd love to have the luxury of making that decision, but as far as I know, there is only one region in Canada that can go a whole year without snow - and I have zero inclination of ever moving there.
Being a resident of the United States, you have the luxury of having many regions of hte country that don't get frigid....

wanna adopt me and my family?

Been to the Calgary, AB area many times and despite being 500 miles north of me, it's like going 500 miles south of me. My wife worked in Lethbridge, as well as Fort McMurray in Alberta and Dawson Creek, BC between 2004 and 2014.

Every time I've been in Calgary in the winter the temps were significantly warmer than back home.

A couple examples:

1. December 2004 - My wife and I did the bobsleigh (bobsled for us US residents) run at the Olympic Park in Calgary. Temps were about 45 degrees F. My wife calls her sister to let her know that we just made our run and her sister asked aren't we "freezing"? It was -20 F in Coon Rapids, MN.

2. Febuary 2010 - I leave Rochester, MN in the morning and it's -25 F. I land in Calgary in the afternoon and there's no snow at all and the temp is over 50 degrees F.

Have I been in Calgary with snow and moderate cold. Yes. But it's really a pretty mild climate.

You live in a beautiful area and I would consider it a place that would be great to live in or near.

[unruhjonny]

good points.
all joking aside, the proximity to the mountains do add to the scenerey, and chinooks do make winter more bearable;
the other week though, we were in the middle of a particularly brutal cold snap.
The upside of the cols snap is that it sounds like it may have killed off a good percent of the pine beetle population which in recent years have come to our province.

I'd suggest our temperatures are much like northern montana, or idaho...
We are a "prarie" region, so we do get quite cold, and the down side of the proximinty to (the cool side of the rocky mountains) is that our summers are much more moderate in temperature than most prarie regions.

[The Champ]

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[66sprint6]

Oh, boy...

[Stuart]

This discussion is about jumper cables, not about the relative merits of living in Canada or the US. Let's keep it that way.