Any Canucks in the house? Or is 'canuck' offensive?
Potential career opportunity for me involves a couple of years in Saskatoon. Anybody ride in Saskatoon or the (vast) surrounding area?
I'm seriously considering it, but I'd hate to end up in bike purgatory for the sake of advancing my career. I've put on 2k miles my 3 months as a motorcyclist, and I'd like to be able to continue.
Appreciate any input, experiences, cautionary tales, etc.
holla
I used to live in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, which is only about an hour and a half away from saskatoon. Its actually a really nice clean city. ive been there countless times. Their university is super nice. the city itself is surrounded by water. There is so many bridges its nuts. Ive seen alot of motorcyclists there. Its a nice ride to Regina on weekends too, nice double lane highway the whole way there. The best part of saskatoon is that there is ALOT of intersections that dont have stop signs. Instead its actually yields. I personally LOVE that, if you dont see noone, just slow down, look, and go. Some might say its unsafe, but you treat it like a stop sign if there is cars. I moved to Winnipeg four year ago for a transfer. I love Winnipeg, but i miss Regina/Saskatoon. If your up for a change i say go for it. Canada is a awesome country :thumb:
Don't you know they don't speak English there? :? Just joking.
As a matter of fact, it IS a joke ... which I first read in Reader's Digest. HERE (http://www.crosswordsite.com/joke25.htm) is a similar version that I found on the Web.
G'day Mate! :)
Lived in Saskatoon for 3 years while in school...originally i'm from Regina...i'd have to say its a much nicer city than Regina, but there's those nice Sask. winters....brrrr....one of the reasons I dont live in Sask. anymore ;) . Some awesome mountain bikin trails alongside the river, nice clean city, yup tons of bridges..they don't call it the bridge city for nuttin'.
Canada Rocks!
Yeah lived in Toon town for 6 months ,winter is too much for any human to endure!
Now live in victoria bc,best province in canada ,in my opinion :)
I can ride all year round 8)
Lots of cool rides in saskatchewan though,try ridin up north towards La ronge,nice scenery and fishing!
cool ,peace out canucks :roll:
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Thanks for the replies folks.
The plant is in Saskatoon (actually Clavet), and is where my office would be. Believe the central office is in Winnipeg, I'd have to make the trip there every other month or so.
I spent 4 days in Saskatoon this spring, and enjoyed it. I was there during the jazz festival. Found the Nutana area to be alot like Uptown in Minneapolis, just smaller. Seems like there's a little bit of everything there, and since its a college town, some people roughly my age. I did find some cute canadian ladies out on the town - not sure how they feel about yanks though.
I think the town itself would be great, its just the weather and distance from relatives and friends. And the increase in cashflow makes the distance less of an issue, as there are direct flights back to Minny.
I suppose I could buy a dual sport and do some camping/fishing/etc. Its been a while, but I can probably still pitch a tent and tie on a hook. Is it legal to ride offroad, and are there places to do it?
You can pretty much ride anywhere. The RCMP are pretty slack with off road vehicles. Aslong as your bike is has a licence for on road, they dont really care for off. What company to you work for. I live in Winnipeg. When you come down here we could chill.
Stefan.