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Southern alberta has better weather, economy, mountains and no PST. - best reasons

I get so frustrated driving in sask pot hole filled roads and driving endlessly with barely any sign of civilisation then take a breath of fresh air after crossing the border with Alberta's. it's beautiful, wider and better maintained roads and more towns, cities, and businesses in general especially for the road trip pit stops, there's always a Tim's near by. cheaper gas in Alberta but I do believe insurances are more expensive.

You never hear someone say, "I am moving out west to Sask.". There are no opportunities, just violent native gangs and farmers gobbling up the land and decimating any trees.

You've missed the city of Belém I'm Amazon as well but I'm the state of Pará not Amazonas state like Manaus😂😊

Definately not empty. Would be nice to have a larger city near the sackets area

Left out Manitoba :(

Everything is owned rich/inheritance/native land/crown land. No free land and super limited jobs outside the big city's.

Oil. The answers oil.

...isn't Manitoba also a prairie province?

its because alberta has no rats...

Charleston SC is Old Money they will never let Northerners take over 😂😂😂

Metis came after the european since metis mean mix or mélanger

Alberta and Saskatchewan should apply to become US states. They have more in common with North Dakota than they do with Ottawa.

Basically the U.S. version of Kansas/Montana

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Yeah, I don't live there either. My Father in Law grew up there, it was a tough life on a farm during the droughts and depression.

Saskatchewan has millions of acres of farmland. It is good that we don’t have people living in our fields.

Okay, so... clicked the video cause your thumbnail used the word 'same' a lot. But your video, you use the more apt term, similar. (For those who wonder why this matters... it's because the provinces really aren't the 'same' exactly. Similar is more accurate since they are close but not quite carbon copies.) Update: 7:41 's question about population. I'll listen first and write what I want to add here below. You're doing well enough I figure so far into the video in touching on the nuances, but there are a couple things I think you are going to miss, due to them being kind of in that subconscious level of how people are about X place vs Y place. Continued below after next pause. Okay, so you got to the natural borders part. So here's what you kind of missed, though not entirely. More like, secondary factors that exist because of the primary you spoke of. But there is some stuff that happened a long time ago that also matters still even today. 1. Saskatchewan is often seen by those outside of it as being 'stuck in the past'. The exact date used by each person will vary, but the general idea is that Sask is always like... a few decades behind the rest so to speak. Now, I don't personally believe that, because I lived there and have experienced both the true and false natures of that idea. But that is something I come across when talking to people from other provinces. To them, the province seems like a time capsule of what used to be. And to be fair, since a lot of our history books cover mostly two to three areas of Canada, the prairies being one of them... it makes some level of sense. In that regards, well... 2. Saskatchewan has had a tumultuous history in regards to things like migration of populations. Both in, and out. To keep this short and sweet, let's boil it down to this. Saskatchewan has had many economic swings, in some form or another. In the earlier 1900's back with the dust bowl and the wars, and the economic depression and recessions, Saskatchewan bit that sandwich hard. And then it recovered for a time, slowly, with some nice boosts from resource extraction booms, etc. And then the later 1900's occurred. Where as before the reasons were mostly ecological and economics based due to world events, this time it was more due to events at home and politics that played the part. Economics too, but it has a tendency to have its finger in every pie. Kind of like politics has its thumb in every eye. Anyways, in both situations the end result was a mass exodus out of the prairies and rural areas, into the cities and slightly more urban areas. This resulted in that somewhat of a stagnation that is often referred to Sask being stuck in the past. But, it's also more than that. Why? Because the people who stuck around in Sask through all of that, some of which literally are only passing on this past few years... remember all of it. And they don't let some of it go lightly. People sometimes forget that we still have people alive today who were born during and just after the tail end of the end results of WWII. They went through ALL of the turmoil we commonly forget about today. In Sask, this has its effect in shaping the politics and economics that tend to stick around with the rural areas. Rural areas that feed the urban areas with new students, new workers, etc and so forth; when they aren't being supplied by people from outside the province or country instead. And so you get this mishmash of people who have grown up accustomed to 'the old ways' so to speak, for better or worse; and the rest of the people who have a myriad of beliefs and ideas on how best to do X vs Y coming from all over the place both near and far. And the reason why many rural areas tend to hold to their older belief sets and cultures... well... when you have had to repeatedly go through harsh times and fall back on what are or have been mostly tried and true methods of survival and even thrive from some of them; do you immediately change to something else because some rando says its a better way? No, you probably don't. And don't lie. Humans tend to abhor change, but not always. Continued in reply. Got too long.

We don’t like crowds.

Saskatchewan had a bigger population than Alberta until the Second World War

Manitoba is also a prairie province.

Have you visited Sasketchewan? Why would anyone want to live there?

Edmonton grew so fast because it's the dumpster of Canada and there's lots of human garbage needs throwing out.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan. Back in the socialist days of the NDP rule in Saskatchewan, the joke was ' last one to leave Saskatchewan, turn off the lights '. Many, many Saskatchewanians left for the work and money of the oilpatch in Alberta. At my 10 year highschool reunion in 1994, 170 graduates out of a class of 268 were in Alberta.

Dene and Cree First Nations are all over northern Alberta. Did you even read anything about Alberta or Saskatchewan before posting this schlock?

OIL

Bet it's oil.

Skiing sucks in Saskatchewan. Amost rhymes.

I was told by one guy who lived in regina for 20 years the real reason is the monopoly of big farmers who are major power behind politicians deliberately don’t want to develop big cities fearing their choke hold might be broken if people start moving like they are moving in Alberta and might move the political compas

Only 1.2 million Canadians could spell Saskatchewan.

Love your funny mispronunciations.

Great video! I feel badly for Saskatchewan! I would suggest that you do a video on Manitoba and British Columbia!

As a Person who was born, Raised in Saskatchewan, and lived in Alberta, the host on this video is right and wrong. Economic factors is the biggest reason why there is a great difference between provinces in population. but there are other reasons that need to be taken into account. Political Ideology is another reason. Although Saskatchewan in recent years is considered to be a Conservative/Right-Wing province now. In the past, it was considered to be an extremely Socialist/Left-Wing in it's foundation. To some degree, it's still has some Socialist implementation to this day. The O&G matters of Alberta is kind of a myth. Alberta is still a O&G Mecca, it's fully relies on Tar Sands oil projects. Saskatchewan has more accessible O&G industry, many companies do not want to establish roots in Saskatchewan for Prejudicial reasons.

It’s north of Montana for fuks sake!

I feel like the information is not right

Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba make up Canada's prairie provinces.

Oh its about to get full im sure

I love in the U.P. of Michigan. Way way up at the top of superior. Love it all seasons. Winter a bit colder and more snow. Till this last year. So easy going. Lot better then city life.

We Metis arent generally considered First Nations. We're Indigenous but distinct from First Nations. We also have a sizeable population in Saskatchewan with the core of our homeland being the Red River in Manitoba. We also have folks in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, northwestern Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.

A good part of the southern part of Alberta is much heavier populated than Saskatchewan, because of access to irrigation water, where it its badly needed. This has spurred feedlots and high value crops and secondary processing. In Sask the irrigation water is further north where it isn't needed as much.

We were cursed with a NDP government for way too many year's and they drove away a lot of people and development.

I have some German relatives from Saskatchewan and when I was young, they talked about living in Regina all the time. I was perpetually confused.

You pronounce Saskatchewan like someone who isn’t from Saskatchewan, it’s cute. You pronounce “potash” like Samwise Gamgee explaining it to Gollum. Also Saulteaux and Metis are French words and it would be worthwhile to look up the pronunciations. Other than that, very good and informative video!

They are very different from one another. Saskatchewan has flat topography which is not very interesting to look at and it provides no windbreak, so the cold winds of winter can be very intense. Alberta has more rolling hills and the majestic Rocky Mountains. Although Alberta also gets very cold, they have a weather phenomena called Chinook winds which bring warm winds and a break from the cold. Culturally they differ as Alberta is full of many transplants from around the world as well as other provinces. Saskatchewan is a less popular destination and there are less interesting things to do. There is economic opportunity and the oil and gas industry also in Saskatchewan, but much less than in Alberta. Saskatchewan has a more small town/city feel while major cities in Alberta are more metropolitan and diverse. Alberta is one of the richest provinces and many flock there from BC and the Eastern provinces for work and the lower cost of living than BC. As many have noted, you didn't mention Manitoba, which is also a prairie province and it is probably more interesting than Saskatchewan. I think many Canadians would view Saskatchewan to be pretty much the most boring province in Canada.

Mostly farm land

I love your content. I listen to the Geography is Everything poscast all the time at work. I'm a born and raised lifelong Kansan who loves this area dearly and hopes to never move away.

Saskatchewan is the place for people, who do not like people, to live.

I am disappointed there is NO MENTION of Palliser's Triangle. This semi-arid area of both the southern parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta makes for a challenge that most of us from the U.S. don't understand. I am aware of this because I had a great aunt and her husband settle in the middle of it, Golden Prairie, SK. This is 2 hours north of the Montana border and my contact there says they have been in a multi-year drought, not uncommon for that area. Initially it was felt this are should NOT be farmed because it was so dry.

Its simple...NC sucks, so we NEEDED SC to even it out. Ribbing ya Tar Heels...chill!

It's obviously because of all the sasquatches there. Duh