just something to consider, a lot of people we knew there were folks from other places, you kind of find groups of provincial "ex-pats" as it can be hard to fit in there. Maybe not a big deal but could be a "thing". I was a bit surprised at the open racism too, when I first moved there I mentioned to a guy at work a neighbourhood I was looking at and he flat out told me 'don't do it, there's too many black people there' first time that ever happened to me, and I'm lily white. I'd move to Alberta before I ever went back east.