[travior]

Great site! Hope to be moving to Sask in 6 or 7 years (sooner would be better)! My wife is from Sask and we have two kids. I feel more at home up there than I do here! A much better way of life for the kids!

[Alberta1]

travior travior:

Great site! Hope to be moving to Sask in 6 or 7 years (sooner would be better)! My wife is from Sask and we have two kids. I feel more at home up there than I do here! A much better way of life for the kids!

Hello travior. What is South Carolina like? Come back soon!

[newfette]

welcome from newfoundland

[travior]

South Carolina is actually a nice state. We have everything from beaches on the Atlantic to the mountains of the Appalachains. My family has been here since the 1670's and I don't think any have ever left! I live in the "Piedmont" area of the state. The piedmont is full of rolling hills and the elevation rises as you travel NW towards the southern edge of the mountains.

There is quite a diversity of landscape. The lower part of the state (the area below the sandhills that runs parallel to the ocean and runs about midway between the ocean and the mountains) has many area of swamp land. One of the newest national parks is the Congaree National Park outside of the state capitol of Columbia.

We enjoy camping at Hunting Island State Park on the coast as well as at Table Rock State Park near the mountains. You can travel the entire state in about 4 hours.

Once the center of the textile industry, the state's economy has changed more to manufacturing. BMW has a large facility nearby in Greer. The Greenville metro area is one of the fastest growing urban areas in the nation.

The weather here is the opposite of Canada. We have four seasons: Summer, Not Quite As Hot As Summer, Slightly Chilly, and Almost Summer Again.

We rarely get snow. We get much less than when I was a kid. Usually we get one or two snows a year and are usually gone in 2 or 3 days. Last summer the average high was +38C to +41C. Needless to say, my wife cannot wait until we can move back to SK! She misses the snow.

[ManifestDestiny]

DONT DO IT MAN!!!!!! YOU FREAKIN TRAITOR!!!!!



Only kidding you could do as you please, my wife is also a cannuck, Good luck, and welcome.



Great whitetail hunting in Sask.

[travior]

My wife and I actually met on the internet. We both had an interest in Dungeons and Dragons and were both on a roleplaying channel on IRC called DragonMystInn. We talked for two years before meeting face-to-face. We even got to where we were writing a letter a day every day (3-5 pages). We seemed to click.

So, being tired of my dead-end store manager job, I quit and went to meet her and spent two months there in 1997. We both knew that we were ment to be. I was origionally gonna move up there first but it was going to take a couple of years to pay some bills off. Her grandma, bless her heart, said "What's holding you here??? He's miserable, your miserable, YOU move!"

And she did. We got married in 1998. We lived the first two and a half years in a 30' camper. My father-in-law said it had to be true love because he and his wife would have killed each other in that small of a space.

We now have two kids, our son Sean who is 6 and our daughter Kaelyn who is 19mos. We get up to see her family about every 9 to 12 months. We usually drive in the summer and fly in the winter. 3 day drive, 1956mi one-way.

I truely feel at home up there. Every time we visit, I want to come back less and less. Hope to find a nice quater-section near Moose Jaw with a house or at least a nice yard site. Land runs about $300-500 an acre there. Here it is about $7000-10000 an acre.

I am hoping to wait to move until we have enough money to buy the land and/or house and pay cash for it. I'm not sure what kind of work I can get and might have to go back to school. I have a 2-year Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering and have worked 8 years as an industrial maintenance technician but we do not have the levels of professional certifications that you do up there so I'm not sure if my stuff will transfer or not.

I've also been a certified Emergency Medical Technician. I wouldn't mind going back through that course up there and do that for a while. If I can get a house and a newer vehicle paid for, it will not matter as much about what kind of job I get right away.

I can always haul grain for my father-in-law LOL!

[ManifestDestiny]

open a Carolina BBQ stand.

[travior]

LOL! I've thought about opening a southern-themed restaurant! Don't guess sweet ice tea will be a big mover though Will have you guys eating boiled okra, blackeyed peas, corn bread and red rice before you know it

My wife's family asked her what the cooking style down here was like. She told them that we ate about the same things but everything was fried. And she wonders why South Carolina has the highest rate of heart disease in the nation.

[Brenda]

Welcome from a Dutchie in South BC

[ManifestDestiny]

get yourself a good smoker and some BS story line about family recipies and bingo you could make a good living. you most likely have the accent thing down pat.

It would be like me opening a NY style pizza joint there. They might have dominos but I am the Italian guy from NY who makes his pizza's like they did years ago!

[Gunnair]

lily lily:

Welcome here from the left coast.

And the left hand rock.

[Brenda]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

get yourself a good smoker and some BS story line about family recipies and bingo you could make a good living. you most likely have the accent thing down pat.

It would be like me opening a NY style pizza joint there. They might have dominos but I am the Italian guy from NY who makes his pizza's like they did years ago!

Soooo... When are you moving to my little corner of the GWN?

[travior]

There is a huge diversity in cooking even here is SC. My dad's family is from the lower part of the state, lots of rice-based dishes. My mother's family is from the upper part of the state, lots of potatoes.

Took a while to get used to eating the stuff my in-laws made. Too healthy! Nothing was battered or fried! Had to carry an IV bag with cooking oil so my system wouldn't go into shock.

Everyone says I've already been de-Southernized. The one thing I haven't given up though is my Duke's Mayo! I accidentally left a jar at my in-laws once and they said they tried it but couldn't stand it and threw it out. Most mayos have water as their main inggredient, Duke's has egg yolks as its main ingredient.

Still cannot understand the heart disease link...

[Brenda]

Only real mayo is made from egg yolk, others should not deserve the name mayonaise

[travior]

Hopefully, we will be moving in 6 years. Less if the stock market rebounds And if the exchange rate will slide back the other way a bit. (Not counting on either)!

As far as the accents, I've always been good with accents and when I'm around a group of people for a bit I start talking like they do. My mom called during one of our visits to my in-laws and I answered the phone. She thought I was my father-in-law! It was too funny!