Wait… As a Manitoba resident… I am completely unaware of a Move to MB marketing campaign being held in Toronto. What does it look like?
Basically it just says stuff like “Are you tired of high COL? Come move to the middle of nowhere where the COL is low!”
Mostly it’s targeted at younger Millennials who simply cannot afford homes in the GTA, generally citing better affordability out west.
The Alberta campaign is the same, except it also totes high job growth across the province.
I have family who have moved out West into a house that would be locally priced at over a million dollars but due to being out in Sask it was about half as much as that. I’m very tempted to move out to the prairies myself since my job is entirely remote, and it’s truly just considerably more affordable out there.
Here’s a picture of the Alberta ads, I can’t find one for Manitoba right now for some reason: https://i.imgur.com/fF0c6nY.jpg
I’m biased, but Alberta is still reasonably cosmopolitan, at least. It’s also not as cheap as we thought apparently, because of the other costs of living.
I don’t know about Manitoba, but I would have to be truly damn broke to consider Saskatchewan.
Just before COVID I moved to Winnipeg to start a business. Needed a nice garage I could use as a workshop to get off the ground. I joke with my friends from elsewhere “I bought a garage and it came with a free house”. We’re to the point where my business is outgrowing it and commercial property is on the horizon. 4000sqft industrial spaces here about about $1M to buy. I can’t imagine even entertaining that idea if I had to spend $1M on a house first…
