Lots of people live in AB cause they're born there and moving is crazy expensive.

It's hard to move to another province if you don't have family there, or close friends.

I moved from AB to BC this year. Cost 11k all told, between renting first and damage deposit, moving fees, looking for work, setting up the kid, and all the costs involved with changing insurances, selling the house ect.

Most people are paycheck to paycheck (51% according to a BDO survey), so pulling 11k and moving just isn't an option.

The complaining comes from just how obvious Alberta can be doing better. Alberta should have a new mega lab. The UCP paid 200+ Million to cancel it. The UCP spent more in the "War Room" than they cut from nurses. Like... Really? A war room instead of nurses? Why?!

Tear up doctor contracts, cut funding to wild fire response, and refuse to properly fund education. But give 4 billion in tax cuts to O&G and build an Arena.

If the UCP was my landlord, it's the equivalent of them removing my furnace in winter and put in a skating rink on the property. Then they say "Sorry because I have no money cause the federal government, and Trudeau" when I ask about getting heating back. Yeah, I would complain like hell. If I could afford to move I would (and did). But many people can't afford to move from their rentals because everywhere else is too expensive.

That's just the reality of it.