If you like long cold nights and hardly any night life, then the nation’s capitol, Ottawa, is the place for you. If these highlights didn’t hit your pleasure spot then it might surprise you to find out that according to a government and recent independent survey done by MoneySense, Ottawa is the best city in Canada to life and work.

What criteria did the researchers conducting the survey take into account? They looked at a number of issues in order to delineate between the various cities including crime, weather, the number of physicians, average income levels as compared to the average price of a home in the city.

Ottawa actually failed to finish in the top ten in any of the listed criteria in the study, but did score far above average in almost every category, beating the second place cities Victoria and third place city Fredericton by a large margin.

Victoria scored the highest for its warm weather and an abundance of high paid doctors, not a surprise, but the price of a house was high even for these high paid professionals.

Fredericton on the other hand was on the other side of the spectrum, scoring extremely high for the affordability of its housing and discretionary income, but doctors are often hard to find and the weather we best not talk about.

If you live in any Canadian city the price of life has increased in the last few years, the price of housing has gone beyond the reach of a majority of wage earners in our society and the same can be said even for smaller cities, like Prince George.

In the next generation of wage earners we will be seeing a lot less home owners coming out of the middle ranks of wage owners, with only the most highly paid wage earners or those born with a silver spoon able to afford their own home.

The price of everything constantly increasing means that more and more wage earners are being left behind in the race to get the carrots that we all feel we deserve. Unfortunately, there are only a limited number of carrots on the planet, but an ever increasing number of humans who all want their own home.