I haved lived in 6 provinces and 1 territory in Canada. I have been coast to coast 9 times. My country isn't perfect, but there is no country in the world that I would trade it for. Where is the narrator from? I wonder if her country is perfect. All in all, this video is a large crock o' shit.
Guess what- living in the country isn't the end of the world. Can't imagine how you'd ever survive it! Oh no you might have to make your own fun and go out and appreciate nature. If these are the worst places in Canada then God knows our country is one of the best around. Cheers from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
The Happy Old Gay Guy! ! if you din't like our country you just have to stay away from it, we don't really care nor need assholes, and if you are already here then hit the road, we won't force you to stay.
The Happy Old Gay Guy! ! hahaha, really i don't hate you but since you seemed to look for trouble i could not resist helping you, you know how we canadians are, we love to help people achieve their goals
1. New Glasgow isn't more expensive to live in than NYC. I've lived in both - that's complete crap. 2. I wasn't born there, and lived there until I went to university. 3. It's an hour and a half away from Halifax - get it together.
The crime, because it's usually not that big a problem today, in fact, Alberta's police forces have become more better in stopping crime today, than it was back in 2013
I know, Canada is a great and safe country to live in and visit, But this video is just trying to stereotype the crime rate, which is why I think it's offensive
Lots of us have very hard work,.and stay to do double shifts, as long as the place u work at is not ruined by frigging union crap,.That is what makes people do wtf they want, or be lazy cause they can't get fired and ur stuck with their dumb ass,.
You know you can't take this seriously as anything beyond moralizing, judgemental, superiority from somebody who's never been to Canada when she doesn't know how to pronounce "Newfoundland." And who talks about St. John's major employers but doesn't mention Irving? What a waste of time. I'd rather live anywhere in Canada than anywhere in England.
+radio boys Why did you cringe every single time you hear the word Newfoundland. I've lived in Newfoundland for about two years. I'm living in Toronto Canada.
the UK is just fine. Personally, I don't mind living anywhere as long as the pay is good and you can live and enjoy life, rather than struggle everyday.
I lived in Thunder Bay with a child and the ex. It was cold and foreboding. The summer was never long enough and winter was freezing and dismal. Not much to do there. But the 'worse' place in Canada is better than the best place in the middle east.
funny how a group supposedly helping immigrants come to Canada from foreign countries can have anything bad to say about any of our cities. when the simple thing is if it is so bad here why would you bother coming stay in your wonderful country were there is no unemployment, racism, or crime. Or you can go to the U.S. way safer there.
yeah actually, some parts of the u.s. are safer than some canadian cities. it doesn't matter which country your in. smaller towns will always be safe in america and canada. and larger cities will have the higher crime rates, applies both to american and canadian cities. more people =more crime. less people = less crime. when i was in vermont and new hampshire from quebec i felt more safe in those two places than i did visiting in nova scotia. hate to burst your ignorant sarcasm. so many anglo-canadians are insecure and have a huge inferiority complex.
Ok can you just stop? I wasn’t born in newglasgow But I live there And I love it It’s nice here Oh god forbid you go outside God forbid you live in a small town It’s nice here The weather is fine Most of these houses are cheap Everybody’s nice You know everybody It’s pretty good If your a city person you can live here My best friend is from a big city and she moved here about 3 years ago She loves it
I take offense to your suggestion that a town in southern Newfoundland or in Ontario was a bad place to be...I would suggest that if you suggest the idea that you have absolutely no idea what it means to be a Canadian.....
Saint John, NB is a wonderful place. The people are extremely friendly and most of them share a United Empire Loyalist or Irish background. It does have problems with poverty, but people seem to genuinely love each other and are kind to each other. Again, a wonderful place to live.
Actually, Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge (and smaller cities around here) are all great places to live. Also, I'm not being rude, but you can't even pronounce Newfoundland or Winnipeg. Why should immigrants trust you?
Nanaimo is a tough place to find a decent job. There are only two classes of people in Nanaimo: there are the well paid professionals such as lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc. and the semi-professionals like teachers, government workers, and the like; And then there are those that wait tables, serve beer, flip hamburgers, and beg.
I am told by a volunteer than many Muslims show up at the food banks these days, which may me wonder even more why we brought them here!! Why bring them to Canada if they are unemployable?
Honestly, It seems kind of silly to be comparing cities/towns in a place like Canada when all the top spots for the worst are are taken by small towns or cities. Pretty much every immigrant coming to the country will move to a big city anyways unless they get a job offer somewhere else.
I grew up in Michigan, close to the border crossing into Sarnia. Those chemical and processing plants are on Ontario's side of the river; so don't pin it on "American Heavy Industry". It's not called chemical valley for nothing.
Yes, we DO! Just look at a MAP!!! Even as far South as Toronto, weather is considered to be cold from November to at least April. Perhaps you just meant that the weather in Canada is usually rotten everywhere, but especially so in the places you mentioned?
OMG, this is so funny because I moved to New Glasgow only a couple moths ago! It's not bad. Came here to buy a nice house at an affordable price. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was number 1 on this video!
The best place to live in Canada is Victoria. Or anywhere on southern Vancouver Island. Mild weather, hardly ever snows, and if it does, it only lasts a day (or less). It does rain a lot☔, but it's always green. 😊🌳🌲🌄
Well actually New Glasgow has a very well endowed hospital so it isn't quite as bad as depicted in the video. The video even spells out how there has been a long term decline in unemployment. The criticism about climate is fairly bogus too since almost all of Canada is cold and somewhat rainy in the spring & fall.
+Immigroup Inc yes but she still could have practiced pronouncing it. Just like when she pronounced Mississauga as Mississaugwa, it could have been a mistake she could have easily prevented.
I'll suggest to you that West Isles Parish (Deer Island) in New Brunswick has you beat. Probably very very close though - I would give Deer Island the nod because our ferry runs every half hour most of the day and is free - vehicles and people. And 90% of the people wave. And if there is any doubt so far - my 20 acres with about 500 of ocean front including a beach, cost me $50,000! We do get a bit of winter but this is Canada and Christmas without snow to me is unthinkable. Both great places and certainly better than downtown Saint John, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, ....
Maybe it's a great place to visit as a tourist, but not a great place to actually live. New York City is an awesome place to visit but I don't think I'd want to live there.
Nanaimo...are you kidding me? I wouldn't mind living there. I'm surprised no cities in NWT' Yukon, Nunavut, or any northern province cities were named instead.
Median house price in New York City $825,000.00 USD.Median house price New Glasgow, Nova Scotia $139,900.00 CDN. ($106,000. USD). Yet the video says the cost of living is higher in New Glasgow vs New York City. Hmmm. someone can't add?
Real estate prices do not equal cost of living. I'm not sure the video was clear. The source uses a scale where $100 is purchasing power in NYC, anything below that is cheaper than NYC and anything higher is more than NYC, relative to that place. At the time we wrote the article the video was based on, the cost of living in New Glasgow was worse than NYC due to the very reduced purchasing power of the New Glasgow dollar, not because anything in New Glasgow was more expensive than anything in NYC. (Please note: the source is crowd-sourced, so the data may not be the most reliable.)
I live in Sarnia. The pollution rates have gone way down since the year she mentioned. It is a pretty city with many beautiful parks, beaches and waterways. The downtown area is not dead, and there have been new things opening, as well as some plans in the works for something big at the downtown mall. I moved here in 2011 and I like it. I can find lots to do here. Oh and my dad was from Nova Scotia. It is amazing down home! Anyone who can't handle it not being a city, or having to actually work on things...yeah stay out. People down home are not wussies that need to be catered to. lol
For the record, no one in Thunder Bay calls Lake Superior gitchee goomie. You pulled that straight from a Gordon Lightfoot song and thought it was relevant. Also, Thunder Bay has a very diverse multicultural population and are generally very accepting. If you encounter racism in Thunder Bay it is typically against native aboriginal peoples or lately people of middle-eastern origin. If you are not of these two ethnic groups, you'll likely fit in just fine. The isolation is a big hurdle though and while Thunder Bay is large enough to provide almost any need or desire, after some years you may find yourself feeling stuck.
I was surprised that Corner Brook didn't make the list in 2014 as the Western Newfoundland City has endured nearly 1/2 century of population decline, low access to high quality jobs outside government or Corner Brook Pulp and Paper, poor business climate, high unemployment rate, lack of support for non Corner Brooker owned businesses from locals, low access to affordable housing, and high costs of getting an apartment relative to income. Now that Corner Brook is under a leadership of a progressive Mayor like Jim Parsons, things are looking better for the Western Newfoundland City.
"Hey folks that have no place in our country, stay away from the shitty areas, leave those for people born here, set yourself up in one of the nice areas most Canadians would love to move to." FFS
I'm a Canadian naturalized citizen, originally from South America. I find this video quite offensive, obviously done by another immigrant trying to "help" other prospective immigrants. Immigrants come in multiple varieties, ethnicities, personalities, and... souls. This is really unfair to the whole of Canada which I'm truly grateful I've been able to live here and learn from the people who really cared for the country and its people. I hate people who come just for their interest and don't give a hoot about the general Canadian population, don't care about the country which allowed them to stay. Please go somewhere else if you don't care.
Immigroup Inc does this individual from Bay Roberts actually consider themselves Canadian? In my experience Newfoundlanders consider themselves Newfoundlanders first and foremost. Many have a middle child mentality when it comes to their place in Canada, claiming that no one cares about Newfoundland and all the federal money goes to Ontario. This list feels like someone who is making judgements based on places they can't even imagine because they have never left the Rock. No, a trip to Florida, New York City, Toronto, or an All Inclusive Resort don't count. Going to the tourist area is not the same as actually seeing the world.
I'm sure it has changed a lot. As to never seeing hate crimes - I didn't think they happened at all where I live until I was in OAC and my friends were attacked. Had they not been attacked, I would have continued to believe that such things didn't happen where I lived.
Went to the University of Waterloo, mainly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I also know a gentleman who has lived there off and on since the early 1970s, and he has shared some of his experiences with me. By and large, my impression of Kitchener-Waterloo has been fairly good, although it does have its sketchy parts, mainly due to the decline of its former industries. Plus it has Oktoberfest every year! I don't think it deserves to be on this list at all.
I live in KW for ten years and never had any problems at all. It is affordable, has a decent nightlife, tonnes of cultural diversity and great food. This list is f'd.
I live in Saint John, N.B., and lemme tell you, the only real bad place to live here is the far north and south ends. Also the lower west (Those are the more poor areas). Other than that, it's a fine place to live. I was born here, so, I don't notice the smell, but it can't be that hard to get used to, right?
I honestly don't see how Nanaimo makes this list (i haven't been to any other of the cities so i wont comment) seriously i have no clue its actually really nice and its bot really isolated where i live is isolated, definitely not Nanaimo. The person who made this video has obviously not been to Nanaimo
Winnipeg is the worst place to live in Canada. Come here and you will live in Warsaw ghetto, facing racism, discrimination, poverty, and hunger. There are no opportunities here and there is no support for seniors, families, people with disabilities and business owners. If you live here, if you have any means, get out.
It is a nice town for sure, I’ve been living here for 20 years. When is a person in a wheelchair I do find that we do have to make a few adjustments for accessibility especially when it comes to medical services. I have a hard time getting into my family doctors office, and the Aberdeen walk in clinic is tight on space when it comes to small wheelchairs and we could have some more wheelchair parking spaces throughout the town. But otherwise it’s a nice town, did all of my years of grade school here and all of my school bus drivers are nice, also The bus garage for the county was really good when it came to transportation issues with wheelchair buses. They always had a back up plan, there’s only a couple times we had issues but otherwise they were good.
I live in Thunder Bay it has cold weather but when you live in Canada you get use to it the summers are very nice and the people are nice the schools are also very good to and if they come from Iraq,America,China and India the people are not racist only some old people because they think it's okay to do that also there's lots of nationality like Scottish,polish, and a ton more we do have a lot of Finnish people but that's how it is also the camps in Thunder Bay I would say the best camp is northern lights resort or northern lights lake the camps outside of city limits its. 2 hour drive but it's worth it it's better then going to the koa also there's a mother camp when your coming to northern lights resort it's called red pine outfitters the guy that owns it is very nice and is very friendly also the guy at northern lights lake is nice to and friendly both of them are funny but I'm just trying to say Thunder Bay isn't bad and and I'm not trying to be mean but I'm 11 and I think Thunder Bay the best town it's actually very big
I just wanna add new glosgow has one of the lowests costs of living in canada this video is so wrong. Avarage rent for a 2 bedroom is around 500 dollers. This video is a joke lmaooo
I lived in one of those small N W Ontario towns for 3 decades for the opportunity. I needed some sort of worthwhile qualification to get out and live in a decent place. So the first ten years had purpose but the second twenty years was a total waste of my life. I highly regret that. Now I live in Southern Ontario a place where I wasn't born but this area and affordable Southern BC are easily the best parts of Canada and I've been most places. N W Ontario really fits the expression " A nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there".
It's currently closed for the UK, as you know. www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/iec/ Not 100% sure when it will be open. I will ask one of our consultants and get back to you.
For a time Saskatoon was only second to Calgary as far as jobs and economic growth. With the bottom of the energy industry falling out, it has slowed down there considerably just like Calgary. I don't know how much better mining and agriculture is doing. The good side to Saskatoon is that the lakes are only and hour and a half drive from there with only half the tourists that one would find in say Banff or Jasper.
Off of my research, all of these lists lack a considerable amount of Western Canada. Western Canada has among some of the worst crime in the developed world, overshadowing the worst of the US by multiples; so it seems kind of bizarre how many of these lists avoid Western Canada. Here is how I would rank the worst (off of crime, poverty, pollution) 15. Sarnia, ON 14. New Glasgow, NS 13. Selkirk, MA 12. Grande Prairie, AB 11. Prince Albert, SA 10. Terrace, BC 9. Prince Rupert, BC 8. Lloydminster, AB-SA 7. Timmins, ON 6. Fort McMurray, AB 5. Quesnel, BC 4. Portage-la-Prairie, MA 3. Wetaskiwin, AB 2. North Battleford, SA 1. Thompson, MA For comparison of how bad Thompson is for crime, Thompson has a crime rate of 43k/100k~ -- in comparison to let's say Camden or Detroit which are both around 5k/100k~. Thompson is by far the worst city in the developed world for crime and it isn't even close. Mixed in with very high pollution, and a poverty rate of 38%~, and you get a VERY bad city.
I love all the Canadians in the comment section who probably don't travel their own country defending the horrid living conditions in some towns. They think all of Canada has Toronto or Vancouver's standard of living.
I would not want the standards of toronto or Vancouver or any other huge city, I love my small towns and wide open spaces and fesh air clean water. I love green trees and grass farms etc... we do not suffer because we dont have big night life etc, less shit to waste money on
Ive lived on Vancouver island for well over 50 years, the statement about Nanaimo is absolutely wrong! Victoria is way way more expensive and the jobs are easier to find up this way, property values are going up every day but still affordable. We have so much forest area to buy, you dont have to live right in Nanaimo and this town has changed way more than they give credit for, so I dont believe anything this video has to say!!!! Born and raised here so I know!
Naturally, small towns in remote areas or on south shores are the worst of the worst. -Well yeah, I mean obvi........wait, what? What does creepy propaganda/AI voice lady have against remote places and shorelines?
When you say a Canadian city has a high crime rate, how does this compare with US cities? Thunder is about 6 hours from Minneapolis-St. Paul and 3.5 from Duluth, Minnesota.
+jteeselink Off the top of my head, I have no idea. This information was relative to Canada when it was gathered, back in 2013. But I think you have to assume that a larger city, such as Minny-St. Paul will likely have a worse crime rate. (Likely, certainly not a certainty.)
The Twin Cities are of course bigger, but are pretty good when compared to the US. Not sure when compared to Canada. Well at least Thunder Bay is no Detroit. I imagine it being a nice place to live if you like hunting & fishing.
With 11 homicides in 2014 - a number Thunder Bay Police Service Chief J.P. Levesque calls “pretty incredible” - the city not only topped the country in murders but also ranked the highest for violent crimes.
Canada is full. Not one square foot of land left. High levels of radiation all over Canada. No jobs . High crime. No food none most people die within three months of moving here
Nanimo isolated? It is close to Cambell River. I have been there a couple times, and it is a good place. plus it is on Vancouver Island, a beautiful place.
Campbell River has a population of 35,000. which is much smaller than Nanaimo. It's isolated compared to other cities of its size. It's 90 minutes from Victoria and a ferry ride from Vancouver. There aren't too many cities of its size in Canada which are a long (and expensive) ferry ride from the nearest large urban area.
This woman is full of shit. She mentions "(Sarnia's) view of, and proximity to, American heavy industry," while the industry she refers to is all on the Canadian side of the border. It's all petrochemical related, "Chemical Valley". But yes, Sarnia has its share of pollution problems, mostly air related, and if the wind is right, it all goes to Michigan. I'd take everything she says with a large grain of salt.
You're getting the city proper and metropolitan populations mixed up. Saint John city proper has maybe 70 000 people as of this year, possibly even less. (70 063 in 2011). That 120 000 number is the metropolitan area and it has been that way since 2006. Saint John has barely grown if at all.
Is saint John, Newfoundland still a bad place to live in? Please help me as I found a University there that is affordable but want to know if it has activities or not! Thank you.
+Mark Awad There are very few neighbourhoods in Canada that are bad and St. John is not really one of them. It's a small city (even by Canadian standards) so obviously there isn't much to do there, unemployment is pretty high it rains/snows a lot and it's quite isolated from the rest of Canada but being a small place, the rent is way lower.
+jon jenkins Hey Jon: I grew up in Edmonton and emigrated in 1991. The police there are just crazy. Deadmonton always had a high murder rate, isolation, cold and the people are just plain assholes. I'm going back next year to visit my parents and it's giving me nightmares. Can you tell me anything positive about the city of losers?
I think it's hilarious to title a video WORST PLACES TO MOVE IN CANADA and capture a town in about three sentences, both briefly, and shallowly, with no real reason or substance at all. I also think its hysterical that you would parallel the towns unemployment rate (Bay Roberts, Newfoundland) with all the jobs around as if to say "get off your ass you lazy Newfoundlanders, there's tons of jobs!" This is what gives some sociological studies the stereotype of being both shallow, unsubstantial, and misleading with statistics as the only source of premise for the argument (because we all know that statistics paint a very broad picture and can be interpreted in every which way). PS, fix your sound balancing, its way off.
+OneMansStand 64 Thanks for the feedback.A couple things: this is just a youtube video, it is not a sociological study, nor does it intend to be. And you may (or may not) appreciate that author of the article that this is based on is actually from Bay Roberts, so I don't think this is a case of people beating up on Newfoundlanders.
Thanks for your reply! 1. I didn't say it needed to be a sociological study, however I do express the uselessness of such a video. 2. It portrays his character badly if the person who wrote this not only did no research before tarnishing a towns reputation but also bashed his own town. You may think this isn't a bashing per say, but to say why you should absolutely not live somewhere most would consider is a "negative" comment.
You can make a video and claim it has no need for validity all you want, but the viewers also get to say how useless, incorrect, and harmful such videos are
Multiple places in the territories are terrible as well. Kids commiting suicide rather than starving, food is extremely expensive I see documentaries where 2L of milk is $11
Soapmaking202 Melt and pour I have never seen it written phonetically in that manner but that makes total sense! I am always strugging to explain to explain to people how to pronounce it.
Money Sense and StatsCan, primarily. Also, the article the video is based on was written well before it was turned into a video. So the original article is probably 4-5 years old at this point.
Lol... there hasn't been coal mining in Nanaimo for close to 100 years. The trip to Victoria takes me about 50 minutes. Vancouver takes 90 minutes but that is only because they won't build a bridge and the damn ferries are too slow, plus far too expensive. Nanaimo is a great city to live in. I grew up in a suburb of Vancouver called Maple Ridge and I would never leave Vancouver Island to go back there or anywhere else on the Mainland.
The person who wrote this admits somewhere in these comments that he only looked at "social media content", and I believe he actually mentioned Wikipedia, so this list is total BS. I think Toronto should have been the least pleasant place to live in Canada.
Couldn't agree less with you Pat. Victoria is heavily overpopulated, rude and has a one way road into the city (Pat Bay Hwy). Miss this one-way highway and you'll circle the entire city to get a a second chance to get downtown, 340k crammed downtown with only room for a quaint 100k, I've lived there and would not trade it for Nanaimo. Also the ferry to Vancouver is fun and doesn't require any driving. Just have breakfast and read a paper. Robyn
How can a city with the name Thunder Bay, located on the largest of the Great Lakes be bad? I visiting Canada next year and Thunder Bay is definitely on my list.
