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Keep in mind you are moving to a semi arid climate, if you have asthma it will be exacerbated by the wind and dust. If you don't all is good.
Alberta gets in generally really cold winters, but in southern alberta they are effected by warm winds off the pacific called locally Chinooks. These winds can make temperatures rise quite dramatically. But be prepared for at least 2 weeks of solid -30 C weather. Some winters that is all you get but in others it can turn into a month.
Gas and electricity are way higher than I found it in the UK, and a car is a must, but if you are heading to the country you know that.
If you go 1 hour north of Calgary you hit tree line which means less wind but longer winters. The farther south you go (Lethbridge) the warmer it generally is, (about 3-4 degrees higher most days). Calgary right now is really expensive (average home with 3 bedrooms costs around 1/2 million bucks) and all the surrounding cities are being effected by these prices so be aware of that.
Which is why I was saying medicine hat, and the surrounding small towns. The chinook winds keep things a lot warmer there than the rest of Canada. If you want milder weather, Toronto is milder but the storms more severe, short winters though and many small suburbs ariund there. But be prepared for high prices.
Edmomton on the other hand got severe cold and storms last winter.
London Ontario, Guelph, all those cities are warmer with hardly any snow.
Which is why I was saying medicine hat, and the surrounding small towns. The chinook winds keep things a lot warmer there than the rest of Canada. If you want milder weather, Toronto is milder but the storms more severe, short winters though and many small suburbs ariund there. But be prepared for high prices.
Edmomton on the other hand got severe cold and storms last winter.
London Ontario, Guelph, all those cities are warmer with hardly any snow.
Keep in mind the person who asked the question is from the UK when you say stuff like "hardly any snow". Average annual snowfall in London, Ontario is about 200 cm, which in Canadian terms may qualify as very little. But in most places in the world, this actually counts as a very snowy climate.
Average annual snowfall pretty much anywhere in southern Ontario is over 100 cm.
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