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Trading prairie winters for the coast: what the move costs, what changes when you switch provinces, and where Albertans land.
Download the Alberta to the Island Guide
Built for people moving from Calgary, Edmonton, and across Alberta. Covers what your budget does here, the provincial switch, flights and ferries home, and where Alberta movers settle.
Inside the guide:
- The money: plan for housing here to cost the same as in Alberta or more, and weigh the move on the life it buys
- A winter you can live in: mild and green, with a long outdoor season instead of ice and block heaters.
- The provincial switch, plainly: the MSP coverage wait, moving to ICBC and a BC licence, and the PST that's new to you
- Getting here and home: direct WestJet flights from Calgary to Comox and Nanaimo, a seasonal summer non-stop between Edmonton and Nanaimo, and the drive-and-ferry route
- Where Albertans tend to land: Nanaimo's full services, the warm Cowichan Valley, the Parksville beaches, Port Alberni value, or the Comox Valley for the skiing
- What surprises people: winters are wet and grey, a family doctor takes time to find, and year-round flights to Calgary plus a summer non-stop to Edmonton keep your Alberta ties close.
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