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well hello friends i have a very special
video for you today where i am actually
in my hometown i mean i was born in kiev
ukraine obviously so that's a hometown
as well but this is canister no
saskatchewan
this is where i grew up had many amazing
childhood memories
graduated high school and it will always
hold a very special place in my heart
so i thought it would be fun to actually
take you guys around
a few different small towns here in
saskatchewan
and give you a list of the 10 things
that you need to know if you're thinking
of moving to a small town
in saskatchewan
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all right so let's begin with point
number one
and that is in a small town community is
everything now there are definitely pros
and cons to living in a small town
as far as having a very tight knit uh
community it's basically a very big
family
living in a small area i graduated high
school with
19 people in my class and that can be
really great
if you get along with everybody if you
share similar values
you feel you can really rely on your
neighbor and everybody seems to know
everything about everybody but on the
other hand
if you're not able to really blend into
the group that you find yourself in
it can be a bit ostracizing so what i
would recommend for anyone who's
thinking
of moving to a small town is to actually
dip your toes in the water so to say
and just see what the people are like
here maybe come to some of their
community events try and make a few
friends
that itself would really help before
trying to make a permanent
sort of move to a small town
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so for my second point of living a small
town i'm here with
my dad and we are walking in blaine lake
which is a town of approximately 500 to
800 people i would say online it says
that it's closer to 500 but
it looks bigger right oh yeah way way
bigger yeah
so i think that was just like an old
census it's much bigger now
but the second point that i would really
recommend to you guys is to
have a job lined up before
you move to a small town if you hadn't
already guessed uh the jobs in these
types of places
are quite scarce that is if you don't
work in agriculture
that's probably the main job that most
people have in these parts there's also
a lot of retired people because it is a
less expensive place to live
so before you move to a small town just
make sure you have something lined up
of how you're going to create income
because what happens to a lot of people
is that even if they worked in a small
town that position might
you know become obsolete and they have
to move on to a bigger center
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so the third thing to know before you
move to a small town
is that yes of course the real estate is
far
less expensive just to give you
reference uh the average
home uh in a small town of maybe a
thousand to two thousand people
if it's fairly new two to three bedrooms
would usually be going for about
a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
two hundred thousand dollars you can of
course find places that are far less
expensive or
more expensive if they're newer but
that's approximately what you can expect
that's a very common reason of why a lot
of people retire
in small towns and if you are able to
get a job in the area
and like the small town lifestyle you
can really save a lot of money
on real estate
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so for point number four we are in the
small town
of crydor and this is definitely the
smallest town
that we'll have on this list because it
said that there's only 14
people who live here but anyway let's
get on to point number four
which is that the mindset and political
stance of a lot of people in small towns
does tend to air on conservative
saskatchewan as a whole is currently run
by a more
conservative provincial government it's
called the saskatchewan party but it is
basically a runoff of the conservative
party
here in canada it is a lot harder if you
consider yourself a
liberal individual to really find common
ground with people
in a small town
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so number five we are out here by the
ukrainian orthodox church
in crydor is that before moving to a
small town
you should know that it is so cold
in saskatchewan that is basically this
whole week that i have been back in
saskatchewan it is early february
it has been an average of minus 30 every
single day
and if you take the windchill into
consideration it's more like minus 40.
but you just have to understand that
that's just a part of
living here the winters are long they
can get very intense
you have to have a good vehicle and a
well insulated hose to just survive
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now for our sixth point we are actually
in my dad's
new hometown which is hafford i've shown
it in a couple of uh
my videos and uh i wanted to highlight
that haford for being a town of about
500 people
actually has a nurse practitioner a
visiting physician
has a nursing home i guess you could say
and that is actually very rare in uh
small towns most don't have that and you
have to go to a bigger center
thus my sixth point for this video is
that healthcare in small towns is
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now the seventh thing that you need to
know before moving to a small town
is that the internet speeds can be very
slow
now if it's a bigger small town and if
it's close to a larger center
you may be able to get you know fairly
good speeds
but out here in the boonies like even my
dad's place for example
he is paying so much more than somebody
in the city and the speeds are so much
worse
so if you're somebody who needs fast
upload and download speeds for your work
or
personal use make sure you check out
where you're planning to move to
because you might be in for quite a
shock
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so here we are in front of the school
here in hafford
and i thought this would be fitting
because number eight is that small towns
are a very safe place to live
basically since the time that i was five
and we moved to canisterno
i was walking around the whole town by
myself
hanging out with my friends it was
before the time of cell phones
and our parents just never worried about
us i think it's a completely different
story if you live in a city
i don't think you could let your kids do
that like you would get social services
called on you
and something bad might happen small
towns are just a whole other story
because you really do have the whole
community
looking out for you things are obviously
so much more slower paced
and it just gives you a lot of freedom
especially if you're a kid
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now point number nine i thought i would
actually film as we are driving to
our final small town and that is that
you have to watch for wild
animals now this point is true basically
for all of saskatchewan
wherever you're driving you have to
watch for deer for moose
for god knows what else but it's much
more of an issue between small towns
because there's usually the bush and the
places where all these animals hang out
so you have to be really careful when
you're on the road and be watching for
that
because it can be very detrimental if
you hit something like a moose
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so here we are in the downtown core of
spears saskatchewan this is a very small
town with a population
of about 100 people but i thought it
would be a fun place to end our list
because the 10th point is that living in
a small town
really comes with a very slow pace of
life
small town life is not for everybody it
is not you know for me
anymore but i am forever grateful that i
had a childhood
where i was raised in a small town
because it really did bring so much
peace it was nice to be closer to nature
have such a strong community behind you
and things just didn't go as fast
when you're raised in a big city it
feels like every single day you know
there's something
new coming out something new you have to
worry about but here in small towns it
just isn't like that
so if you're looking for a place to
really just get away to be closer to
nature
to be more community minded i think
small towns are actually a fantastic
place to live so thank you guys so much
for tuning in
i hope you enjoyed the video let me know
in the comments if you've ever been to
small town saskatchewan or if you were
you know raised in these parts let me
know in the comments and as always thank
you guys so much for tuning in
i really appreciate it i'm sending you
so much love and
keep being your own kind of beautiful
bye guys
you