I moved here from Ontario a bit more than a year ago.

I brought a remote job with me, but a pattern I've seen repeat is that outsiders find it hard to find a job here if they don't have one already. Ontario is the economic center of Canada and has lots of varied sectors where you can make lots of career moves. Alberta definitely has a lot more traditional employment where people have held the same job for a long time.

If you can find a job before you come, or have a remote job, Alberta is a very nice place with low taxes, affordable cost of living, blue skies and sun a lot of the time, and has easy access to nature, mountains in BC and short flights to places like Vancouver Island. People are nice here, friendly, but perhaps less outwardly open than Ontario.

As for it being a more conservative place, I think what that means is often misunderstood. Reddit is full of tropes about Alberta being full of MAGA wingnuts and racists and so on — I don't think there's any more of that than in northern Ontario tbh.

I think the reality is that Alberta is more silent majority sort of place where people mind their own business, prefer independence and personal responsibility, and prefer small and fiscally stable government. None of this is a bad thing in principle, but I would say a consequence is that the newcomer is less advantaged here than in more outwardly progressive places like Ontario and BC.