Alberta/Edmonton cost of living????

[kame katze]

Just wanted to know whats the cost of living in there like, cuz I hear the minimum wage is 15$/h and that they need workers badly. Botom line is I want to muve there this january for some time and I'v been asking people here, some say the cost of living is very high and some say it's lowere then even here.

Thanx

[brownbearclan]

Alberta's minimum wage is $8.00 an hour. http://employment.alberta.ca/cps/rde/xchg/hre/hs.xsl/998.html

Minimum wage versus the cost of living is going to be pretty comparable wherever you go. It all stinks. I think someone's been feeding you a line. Just Google search for whatever info. your looking for, you'll find it.

[Ebon]

Housing is really fucking high , even worse in Fort Mcmurray. Um, yeah there is tons of work though. If you want to be a rigger companies usually pay for your hotel they give you $150 for it or so, or you can camp and keep that pay. Apart from that and working the rig, you can use your means of transportation for other riggers and make X amount for every km.

That is if you want to do this. I maybe wrong for this job since I only heard brief conversations from my sister's boyfriend.

[kame katze]

Housing is really fucking high , even worse in Fort Mcmurray. Um, yeah there is tons of work though. If you want to be a rigger companies usually pay for your hotel they give you $150 for it or so, or you can camp and keep that pay. Apart from that and working the rig, you can use your means of transportation for other riggers and make X amount for every km.

That is if you want to do this. I maybe wrong for this job since I only heard brief conversations from my sister's boyfriend.

yeh about the rent and buying houses is expansive I heard that too. do you know anything about the oil industry?? can a person with 0 experianse get a job there??

[Ebon]

I know you need to take a few courses and shit. But other than that yeah they will take you, I should of asked when my sister's boyfriend was in town I could of been more helpful. But I know he was fresh out of high school when he started working on the rigs.

[kame katze]

I know you need to take a few courses and shit. But other than that yeah they will take you, I should of asked when my sister's boyfriend was in town I could of been more helpful. But I know he was fresh out of high school when he started working on the rigs.

Thanx still, btw is it realy cold in there?

[Ebon]

It depends, in edmonton last year the coldest day was like -36, up in fort mac with wind chill it used to get up -45+ sometimes. The rest of the time is pretty average negative 20's and maybe a little lower.

[211drinker]

It depends, in edmonton last year the coldest day was like -36, up in fort mac with wind chill it used to get up -45+ sometimes. The rest of the time is pretty average negative 20's and maybe a little lower.

fuck those temperatures, so over it.

[Ebon]

Canadian winters, not much you can do other than bundle up. You think that is bad though 211? in spring when it begins to warm up when you get to single digit negatives people are in shorts and t-shirts. Summers are nice and warm 30 °C + for most of the summer so around 91°F.

[Fireball]

Uh... No way is our housing prices more than Fort Mac! I can honestly say, Edmonton's housing is sort of expensive, but not really extreme. We do need workers badly. Alot of places say the require you to have such and such, but nowadays they will hire just about anyone. I'm pretty sure our housing costs are the close to the same as Toronto's, if not a bit better.

[Clouds in the Sky]

Do they hire boobies?

[Ebon]

Uh... No way is our housing prices more than Fort Mac! I can honestly say, Edmonton's housing is sort of expensive, but not really extreme. We do need workers badly. Alot of places say the require you to have such and such, but nowadays they will hire just about anyone. I'm pretty sure our housing costs are the close to the same as Toronto's, if not a bit better.

What I said was "even worse in fort mcmuarry." not "Even higher than fort mcmurray", I am just guessing you read this wrong because of what your first sentence said.

[kame katze]

Uh... No way is our housing prices more than Fort Mac! I can honestly say, Edmonton's housing is sort of expensive, but not really extreme. We do need workers badly. Alot of places say the require you to have such and such, but nowadays they will hire just about anyone. I'm pretty sure our housing costs are the close to the same as Toronto's, if not a bit better.

thats realy nice to hear.. last quastion, I heard timhortons pays 15$/h in that case how much would it cost to buy just one regular coffy?

[Vigil Ante]

It depends, in edmonton last year the coldest day was like -36, up in fort mac with wind chill it used to get up -45+ sometimes. The rest of the time is pretty average negative 20's and maybe a little lower.


I know its hot and dry there in the summer but as for your winters.....BRRRR fuck that.