dvkk, funny you should mention the hockey as honestly after my own Aussie Rules and Rugby games here; your hockey has got to be the toughest sport there is. In a world obsessed with pussification of team sport in order protect us, there's few games left out there that do my biscuit. There is no question I'd learn to love the hockey
PBH, we current own a home worth around $800k Aussie - we loose a little in the conversion to around $700k CAN. Everything else such as incomes, consumables etc... seem to be similar. It would seem that your houses are rough equivalent (dollar wise) to ours. Obviously a lot would hinge on the kind of employent we got - and I don't kid myself that I'd have to start down near the bottom again
I really do come from the sunniest part of Australia (Queensland) with an average temperature of 23c all year (peaks at 40c in summer and goes down to a chilly 11-12c in winter
) But I love the cold and snow whenever we visit other places, and I'm a keen snowboarder. Though I know it would be different living in it half of the year or more. I guess I could swap my dirt bike and jetski for a snow mobile...
We're moving a little ahead with the idea, having downloaded all the documentation and speaking with a few people we know that have lived there. Regardless, there is about an 18 month wait once the application goes in.