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Life in the Canadian Maritimes is decent enough. We have a few skiing options within reasonable driving distance (though they're not big hills) - and better options if you don't mind driving a bit further and/or depending where in the Maritimes you are looking.
Summer's are warm, but typically not hot.
Oil & Gas in the region, good schools (at least in our area), mild cultural madness (all part of living in the maritimes), child friendly, etc. Cost of living is decent - salaries are typically not as high as major centers, but $300-400k will also buy you a really decent house so it all balances out.
And in the case of a zombie apocalypse, Nova Scotia was one of the safe-zones mentioned at the end of World War Z 
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So if I was to sell my house in the UK and use that to buy a house in the Canadian Maritimes, you are telling me I would get an awesome house for $1.2M CAD. (Based on current uk house prices in my area and current exchange rate).....(heads to google.....)........  they are awesome!
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Exactly! 1.2M will get you a 5-10,000 sqft home on the water, with a guest house big enough for me There are cheaper and more expensive places in the Maritimes too, but even the most expensive is going to be many times cheaper than any city-house in the UK. For even better deals check out the southern US (though you'll be hard pressed to find local skiing, unless you're ok with water skiing).
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Do you still have any doubt about this list of yours?
I would love to live in New Zeland if I had the chance. Beautiful landscape, montains, snow and beaches in the same area, great living conditions...
I think it has it all. If I was offered a job there, I would accept in a heartbeat if it pays at least what I earn in Brazil (which is not that hard).
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Well I have kind of an outside the box suggestion. Cleveland, Ohio.....
Here is why:
1) Summers here are beautiful - not too much humidity, average highs in the 70s to mid 80s
2) Snows in the winter - yes it does quite a bit. Skiing is available around the east side as well as the resorts of western New York which are about 1 hour away from the east side of Cleveland
3) Oil and gas industry is booming here now because of the fracking - this is quite prevalent east and southeast of here in the Marcellus shale
4) Education is typical US education. If you desire better than that, there are a lot of really high quality private schools around here too.
A big bonus is Lake Erie, despite the algae problems in the western basin around Toledo. Lots of great fishing out there. Another is that housing around here is pretty cheap too.
Me, I grew up here, but can't STAND the winters. I am moving to Florida within the next couple of years. Truthfully, if I didn't have to deal with the cold and snow, I wouldn't move away.
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Denver.
Nice weather--warm but dry summers, moderate winters with world-class skiing just up the hill.
Not sure what you mean by oil & gas. There's certainly a lot here, and even some field work, I suppose, but mostly I think it's offices here. The field work is more in the northern plains, I think.
There are cultural extremes nearby, but not in Denver itself. Colorado Springs is very conservative (US Air Force Academy, HQ of Focus on the Family and other Christian groups), while the People's Republic of Boulder is just a half-hour away for liberal types. Makes for a interesting political landscape for those who choose to observe.
I think the education system is ok, but I don't have a first-hand view there.
Oh yeah, since you said 'on tap' in your first sentence, Colorado is loaded with microbreweries too. My even elected our favorite brewpub owner mayor of Denver, then governor of the whole state.
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Why not sunny Mexico?
The Oil and Gas industry is about to be opened to third parties (it was fully controlled by the state before), so you may have some work opportunities here, we have a nice weather all year round, but sadly, there is no much snow in here (i think they sometimes have it in the north of the country on winter), the education system is good on private schools up to High School, then it's better on public schools.
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Dunno where you should go but can I have your house when you do? Returning South after 10 years in Scotland is still the dumbest thing I've ever done. Only staying here if there's a Yes vote could possibly eclipse it!
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Life in Australia is pretty good but the skiing is sh*t. NZ and Japan are close by though.
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I found CP API. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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I was. Discovered would be the right word, is it?
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It was deliberately hidden?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Really! Where? 
I thought there wasn't an API.
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Did you know M$ One Drive is running by default and it is installed without even asking you about anything and you cannot disable or uninstall it unless you dig deep into the registry??
I think M$ is reaching a critical point of harassment, no wonder people are switching to Apple.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I run a pc repair shop by day.
People don't know what's running. - Sadly.
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I run two Windows 8.x boxes...when I change the desktop wallpaper on one, the other also changes
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I promise myself... that this is like IE, paint and other software that they include in their OS...
No problem for me...
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Windows is running by default too! A very nasty virus according to some!
In other news I did NOT use a Microsoft account to setup my PC, just local account, no password, boot to desktop directly too!
Sadly I can't get OneDrive to work (it requires to log in with MS account) and I have to use the Web interface, how annoying!
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Kamen Nik wrote: I think M$ is reaching a critical point of harassment
Strange that.........I feel the same about Apple and their fanbois..... 
in fact it is almost at the same level as the delusional 'Yes' voters.
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Welcome to the real world of the Corporate Occupied Technosphere.
If you think Apple is any different in terms of "doing things you don't know about," you have many surprises coming.
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief »
Immanuel Kant
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Kamen Nik wrote: switching to Apple
What?! Apple lost 7% of its market-share in PC selling int the first half of this year only!!!
One Drive is connected to your Microsoft account (much like Google Drive to your Google account, or iTunes to your Apple account and so on...). If you do not wish to use it do not use your Microsoft account to login to Windows (Ar even better not to use Windows 8.x)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: selling int
What? You have to buy ints now? Guess I'll switch over to floating point numbers before Apple sues me.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: iTunes to your Apple
And this is the most intrusive piece of Virus-Ware of all!!!!
I only refer to iTunes as The iTunes Virus.
It's a terrible resource hog, cpu killer, memory eater and runs some other services to make sure it is updated and yakety yak yak blather more ad infinitum.
Please refer to iTunes as The iTunes Virus for now on. 
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Kamen Nik wrote: no wonder people are switching to Apple
Like who?
Working in a company which recruits people from research institutions I see many people joining the company from academia, every single one of them brings their Apple laptop with them and we have to tell them that they cannot use Apple laptops.
Why? Because we have no control of their personal hardware and there appears to be a connection between Apple devices and our Exchange server going wobbly every so often.
I say there appears to be because we cannot connect to and administer the devices via our management tools, however whenever certain people connect their Apple devices things go to pot on the servers.
Where I work we have found Apple computers to not be good enterprise solutions.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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