Hey all!
Just wondering if any of you know of any rental going around the Strathclair/Minnedosa/Rossburn/Hamiota area.
I am relocating to Western Manitoba, hopefully, by the middle of May. My truck is going to be based out of a yard in Strathclair. So, I am looking to rent a place within about a maximum of 45 minutes drive from there. I have put an Ad on Kijiji, and have my eye on Ebay and ManitobaX, and have asked the guy whose yard I will be parked in to keep an eye out. So if any of you know of anything…
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks 
Please tell me to mind my own business if its a personal issue you dont wish to talk about, but can I ask why you’re leaving Ontario? I ask because I’m possibly looking at moving away from NB in the next year or so and Ontario is one option and Alberta/Manitoba is another.
I know wages in Ontario are considerably higher than NB but so too are the costs of living and that in itself may cancel out any actual benefit, at least financially.
If the move does take place it will be purely to get a job that offers a better standard of home life that long haul trucking doesn’t allow for in NB and the opertunities for anything other than long haul work here are almost non-existant and I havent moved to Canada to exist on the minimum wage so I’ll have to remain driving, but perhaps live and work in another part of Canada.
Out west is tempting work wise but the weather (winter) really puts me off, in NB we get 3 months of snow, not 6, I dont know if I could ever get used to that.
i’m moving because of my PR. Will still be working for the same firm that I’ve been with for the past 4 1/2 years, just based out of MB instead of ON. I don’t think wages are any higher here in ON. I earn 42cpm or 24% of the load. Property is definitely more expensive to buy, but rent seems to be a lot cheaper than MB.I currently pay $800 a month which is pretty much all in. I’m going to be paying slightly more income tax in MB than ON. But won’t be paying 13% HST on almost everything! Right now, I have no plans to return to live in ON, simply because of the cost of property.
As for winter, you still get plenty of that in ON. Depending on where you live, you could end up having to deal with a boat load of lake effect snow. A lot of ON companies run into western Canada, so you end up having to deal with the cold out there quite a bit anyway. If you want big money the oil patch is the place to go. Big big wages.
hey don’t wanna hijack thread just wanting a quick answer, where is warmest place in Canada and is there much long haul work from there, I wanna make the move in a couple of years and the same as robin I don’t fancy 6months of winter lol , cheers
Smoggie89:
hey don’t wanna hijack thread just wanting a quick answer, where is warmest place in Canada and is there much long haul work from there, I wanna make the move in a couple of years and the same as robin I don’t fancy 6months of winter lol , cheers
Victoria BC on Vancouver Island is the warmest and the rainiest place in Canada during the winter. I used to live there, back in the day when logging and fishing were the main industries.
Not much long haul work tho. The Island is mainly an old folks retirement centre and tourist trap now. Even the railway has virtually closed down.
Those Canadians that don’t like winter become Snowbirds. They fly south for all or part of the winter.
Smoggie89:
hey don’t wanna hijack thread just wanting a quick answer, where is warmest place in Canada and is there much long haul work from there, I wanna make the move in a couple of years and the same as robin I don’t fancy 6months of winter lol , cheers
Nowhere in Canada is exactly warm in the winter but some places are worse than others, for both temperiture and levels of snow and you’ve also got to consider which provinces will actually let you on to gain PR (Permanent Residence). The best money and better quality jobs tend to be in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, though just because a job is there, it doesn’t mean its any good. Ontario doesn’t offer PNP (Provincial Nominee Program) to truck drivers, which is the first step towards PR so you’d either do 4 years of temporary work permits and then have to leave the country, or relocate elsewhere and apply for PNP in a province that does. Alberta and Manitoba both offer PNP to truck drivers so thats the better option, but the winter there is quite brutal and lasts for ages. The second option, which isn’t one I’d recommend if you’re intending to settle here permanentely is New Brunswick ont he Atlantic coast, which is where I am. Now dont get me wrong, its a lovely place but the quality of work is really very dire and so are the attitudes of most companies towards drivers…however the winter is much easier than elsewhere in Canada.
At the end of the day though, you’ll almost certainly be doing long haul work when you first come, no matter which province you choose and that will mean heading south in to the US and often far enough south to get away from the snow and ice so thats not really a huge issue. My concern is that after doing long haul for the past 4 years I’m now looking to settle down with my girlfriend and get a more “normal” job which actually gets me home, either a monday to friday away all week job or an hourly paid day cab job which would mean having to leave New Brunswick and go to the likes of Ontario, Winnipeg in Manitoba or somewhere in Alberta and while Ontario is very expensive to buy a home, which is a huge downside, the western provinces have horrendous (in my opinion) winters and as I’d be doing daycab work or relatively short haul on a monday to friday, I’d never really get away from it, which is what puts me off going out west. I know that at the end of the day I’d get a better job in somewhere like Alberta, I’d be home more and life would be much better all round, but I cant help that think that after 5 or 6 months of winter there, I’d be suicidal and yes, I know I’m being a wimp about it!!
If you’re in the Calgary / Lethbridge area of Alberta then the winter isn’t that bad because of the chinook winds that come from the rockies so it does get cold but never for long periods at a time. We had +20c here last week and temperatures can vary quite a lot in short periods of time but it is almost always windy.
mmmmm gets a bit complicated …