[teunispeters]

Saskatoon: - the internet is decent. It is better in a hub city, but as long as one can live with occasional disconnects, it's fine.

- Deliveries : add 3 days, weeks or months (depending) on time to delivery. "overnight" does not exist. International diplomacy makes a difference here - so ship from countries that are at least "not aggressively unfriendly". (fwiw : faster to get things here from China than from USA. Odd, but that's both politics and situational issues). EU is about as far away (time wise) as California, and UK is closer than NY.

- Community - have one. Do not be alone, especially if you have a family. Getting out of tech-centric circles tends to be good anyway.

We moved near a bunch of family. It wasn't an easy move, but the quality of life improved quite a bit for us.

[strogonoff]

By the looks of it, Saskatoon is an hour further from the UK than New York is, no?

[steve_adams_86]

I interpreted that to mean in terms of getting things delivered, but reading was never my strong suit, let alone understanding what I read.

[strogonoff]

You are right, somehow my English parser broke on that paragraph and I took it to mean timezones. Maybe I need to take a break…

[teunispeters]

The assumption of it being about delivery time is correct, and having very little to do with actual physical distance.

Each delivery method has its own time as well. And stock in anything I need for work is not available at any store in the city I'm in, typically, so needing something means there's always a delay.