Christine Gregoire-Lauzon and her husband bought a home they’d never seen, in a city where they didn’t know anyone, on the other side of the country, this year.
“The first time that I had ever been to Alberta was to do job interviews,” said Gregoire-Lauzon, who moved to the Calgary area from Pickering with her family in the summer. “Nobody else — my parents, my husband or my children — had ever been to Alberta until we came.”
She joins thousands of other real estate exiles who give a new meaning to the term “drive until you qualify,” taking weeklong car journeys or flying thousands of kilometres to another province, looking for a more affordable life.
