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some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Well, I wish I shared your optimism. For the present, Alberta has a bunch of Oil boom jobs that pay high wages, but most of the housing prices have gone sky high, so in the end workers can't save much ....it all goes to rent, car insurance, repairs, gasoline, etc.

Saskatchewan's oil reserves (if I remember correctly) are largely heavy oil in the south and some tar sands in the north. The problem with both of these is that it requires a sustained high crude oil price to make recovery and refining feasable.

So workers and trades people may earn more, but they will be paying a lot more in expenses. Confused

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

No one can really predict what's going to happen. But I like how Saskatchewan came up in the discussion. That's where I am from, and I bought a house there last year for $150,000. We could sell it now for $260,000 or more. But no matter how much prices go up, our mortgage won't.

The strong dollar is affecting my salary here, but only about 10%.

Justin Hale · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express

Has nobody mentioned uranium?

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

If you are more than an hour away from Saskatoon or Regina, you can get a decent house for less than that.

Faunaki · Joined: 15 Jun 2007

Snow Cake. All the way.

peppermint · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:07 am Post subject:

There's a huge housing bubble in the Fort McMurray area. A former roommate moved there in August, and she's paying well over a thousand bucks a month for a room in a house, and to hear her tell it, the city is like that HBO series Deadwood, except set in 2007

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004