Best Places to Live: Canada's Top 10 Cidades (2012)
Onde estão os melhores lugares para se viver no Canadá?
A MoneySense 2012 Best Places to Live pesquisa Populares 190 comunidades canadenses com pelo menos 10,000 residentes, comparing 22 different factors such as weather, rendas e impostos, perspectivas de emprego, acesso aos cuidados de saúde, acessibilidade para casa, taxas de criminalidade, and overall lifestyle, including the percentage of people who walk or bike to work.
For the third year in a row, Ottawa ranked as the best place in Canada to live.
Por Ottawa? MoneySense outlined several factors that put Canada’s capital city on top:
Ottawa cultural offerings e family-friendly lifestyle were just some of the factors that helped the city take the No. 1 position…
The city’s residents enjoy high household and discretionary incomes, thanks to the large number of well-paying government jobs, which insulate it from some of the vagaries of the economy.
Ao mesmo tempo, the average home price in Ottawa proper ($335,300) isn’t as high as in Canada’s biggest centres, meaning families can comfortably afford decent homes.
Here’s the complete MoneySense InÃcio 10:
- Ottawa, ON
- Burlington, ON
- Kingston, ON
- Halifax, NS
- Rainha, SK
- Brandon, MB
- Fredericton, NB
- Edmonton, AB
- Red Deer, AB
- Winnipeg, MB
Em geral, smaller cities and suburban communities continue to score higher than Canada’s larger cities, com Calgary classificado #14, Victoria (BC) em #35, Toronto em #47 e Montreal em #149. Vancouver, a perennially popular destination for newcomers, entrou em #56, but scored dead last in housing affordability.
For more information on the MoneySense pesquisa, confira os Best Places to Live 2012 lista e artigos relacionados.
A Torre da Paz em Parliament Hill Foto © Carolyn B. Heller
Fredericton as nice as it seems…should not be on any list…We did some research to what would be beneficial to a ‘family’, for housing costs..slightly cheaper, but the city charges as a ‘tourist’ city pricing range. The school system is terrible, and i quite honestly never met so many ignorant people…deceiving for sure.