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A winter climate like Moscow????? The Guardian doesn't have a clue about Moscow or Fort Mac. Moscow has very mild winters by Canadian standards, somewhere between Toronto and Ottawa's winters. There is absolutely no comparison here.
250,000 may be a overstating it a bit. However, there's little doubt that's it's growing rapidly.
There really, really needs to be something done with the infrastructure in that town, if it's going to continue growing though. Traffic is an absolute disaster.
It's growing rapidly and it will probably reach 500K people in at least my lifetime if jobs continue to be in demand there. It will be Alberta's third largest city and the hub of the north. It will make Canada look less close to the U.S. as all the major Canadian cities are in the south close to the U.S. border. That's my prediction at least.
It's growing rapidly and it will probably reach 500K people in at least my lifetime if jobs continue to be in demand there. It will be Alberta's third largest city and the hub of the north. It will make Canada look less close to the U.S. as all the major Canadian cities are in the south close to the U.S. border. That's my prediction at least.
That would be cool if that happens. It will probably be one of the fastest growing cities in the developed world if the predictions are correct.
Again, I can't see it happening. Once these projects are built out, many people will leave the area. The population pressure up there is a result of requiring manpower to build the major projects being constructed in that part of Alberta.
Once constructed, maybe a tenth of the number of folks required to build those major projects is required to actually run them. People aren't generally keen to live in a frozen part of the world a zillion miles from anywhere. They're more likely, or just as likely at best, to leave the area and move on to the next project as they are to stay. The north is also filled with boomtowns which have failed, and people are also reluctant to pi$$ away their hard-earned money paying for a home in the middle of an icy frontier city that is more expensive than somewhere considerably more desirable. For what it's worth, this is my two cents on the matter.
It's growing rapidly and it will probably reach 500K people in at least my lifetime if jobs continue to be in demand there. It will be Alberta's third largest city and the hub of the north. It will make Canada look less close to the U.S. as all the major Canadian cities are in the south close to the U.S. border. That's my prediction at least.
From what I've read, they don't even have Costco or major chains yet. Why have major chains been reluctant to open stores there? Do they think the bust will come soon just like the boom did?
I also hear they are four laning route 63, isn't that a little late in the game?
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