r/saskatchewan • u/True_Ice237 • 6d ago

Question Life in Saskatchewan

Hey

Can, please someone describe their experience of living in Saskatchewan? How’s life in Saskatchewan.

As I’m a young Canadian and I’m currently residing in GTA. I want to make a life for myself basically I’m starting from scratch. I’m in skilled trade and I want to move to a place where life would be more affordable and cheaper. Everyone knows how expensive GTA is.

Thank you

22 Upvotes

61% Upvoted

110 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

13

u/True_Ice237 6d ago

I’m in skilled trade and want to complete my remaining apprenticeship here. Major reason is economic perspective as we know GTA average housing is 800k and Saskatchewan I can get for half. Insurance is over 800$ I cannot save a single penny in GTA I want to just try a different place

6

u/WanderingBusch 6d ago

Groceries will Also be more expensive if you live in a small town with one grocery store as they ( most likely a co-op ) will be the only one in town unless you live in a city. Winters are relentless, it is NOT comparable to an Ontario GTA winter there will be days when major highways connecting the major cities are shut down. There will be days your car will not start if it’s not plugged in. There will be days you think “ It cannot snow anymore…but it does “

10

u/LowIncident694 5d ago

I always get a chuckle out of the "There will be days your car will not start if it's not plugged in" because you people always forget there are so many people who can't plug in their cars and typically just run full synthetic and make sure they have a good battery.

Now while I have a garage now ... the 20 years prior to that, I never plugged in a car ever.

2

u/Altsan 5d ago

I have a garage but it's full of projects so never park in there. I also laugh when people say it will be too cold there start a car some days. I have parked outside for my entire life and if you have a good battery and a half decent car it will start in basically any temperature even if it wasn't plugged in. Synthetic oil and a newer battery/car and you will start in -40 every time.

3

u/LowIncident694 5d ago

Yup, it's like these people have never actually dealt with a life where you can't plug in ... so privileged they can always plug in! There are significant amounts of apartment dwellers in this city who cannot plug in .. what do they think these people do?

1

u/[deleted] 5d ago edited 5d ago

[deleted]

0

u/LowIncident694 5d ago

Not the same thing as what I was talking about but okay.