GandR1 - Over the past 10 years, and the last couple of booms here in Alberta, NOBODY had to go to another province to outbid/underbid anybody for work of any kind. You could quite literally charge top dollar, and work all the overtime you could stand here in AB. 

My comments were directed at Meggsy, and others like him/her. My 3 grown sons & I bailed out of what was once Manufacturingland ON over 10 years ago, because we saw the writing on the wall there. My 2 grown nephews - from BC - are still working here in AB. It's gone from boom to bust, but we're all doing OK. Lots of people here are really hurting, though. How many people can save enough money to last for two years of being out of work? Not many.

The Meggsy's of the world imagine that electricity magically appears at their wall outlets, that unicorns supply the water when they turn on their taps, and that pixies deliver all the food to their local grocery stories on carts pulled by magic flying ponies...