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My husband, two little girls and I are planning to move to Canada ( in the process of our immigration). We should chose our destination, we've never been there, but we are from the Middle East and used to warm climate, so we thought Vancouver area would be best for us. I am very concernd about where to live, my husband is insisting on beautiful Victoria, whereas am very concerned about job search over there. He is a business development person with a 14 years of experience in sales ( Automotives and FMCG), and I'm a hotelier who moved from hotels to being an instructor in a college or hotel management, my girls are still very young, one is 1 1/2 years, the other is only 3 months old, I need a safe place to live in, with job opportunities ( for immigrants as I heard emplyers do not really trust non Canadian working history).
Could anyone please assist us in making our decision, even if it means changing from BC to another place ( should be safe, warm with job opportunities).
Thanks in advance.
Vancouver would probably be a better choice than Victoria, as Victoria doesn't have a whole lot of business...it's a good place to retire, that's about it.
Regarding employment, it might be best to skip BC and go to Edmonton and Calgary (in Alberta) instead. It is much colder, but lots more opportunities at the moment.
Victoria is scenic, and slow. Perhpas great for retiring. Vancouver isn't exactly brimming with CAREER opportunities. Note: I said <career> - jobs yes, but these lead nowhere. job creation aplenty too (these last for 10 mths or so) - so we can all think things are rosier than they are.
lots of clerical and admin paper pushers, or sales type work that keeps people churning on the suburbia treadmill .... but in reality - not that many careers that will actually get you somewhere.
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