I live in Alberta and let me tell you it's BOOMING, but with that come problems. People are actually leaving AB because they cannot afford a house. The average house price is about $400,000. Our house which we've had for 5 years (great timing) is now actually worth 3 times what we paid for it.
My issue is I cannot find any employees that are talented and wish to stay with and grow with the Company. Alberta has people flocking to it for work, and every job that pays close to minimum wage has a requirement for people. This issue is kids these days know they can walk across the street and get another job right away that pays .50 to $1 more per hour.
Service now sucks in this city as people have no investment in their jobs (the lower paying ones) because they can always get another one, and employers are just happy to have staff so they don't care what the people do.
I must say I have never seen so many Ferrari's, Porsches, and Bentley's in Calgary in my life. There was a new Bentley dealership that opened this year and I think they said they hoped to sell 20 units for the year, and I think they sold those in the first month.
As far a land goes it depends what you want to spend, the maritimes I think is still the best investment, you can get huge acres and a good house for reasonable dollars. You could build a nice golf resort, vacation destination, etc. for fair dollars.
Other than that everything is great, and the dollar's at $1.10 US....what Pelican parts do I need again?
