[Jewelry making - Article 00215] - Re: [Orchid] Where is Jeweler heaven? - outside of N.America?

[Karen Bahr]

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    Hi Janet British Columbia, B.C. Canada is a lovely place to live.
    It's my second choice after Alberta where I already live. Very
    similar to Oregon, my third choice. It has a varied landscape mostly
    covered with trees of various types depending on where in B.C. you
    live. Everything is sandwiched between beautiful mountains. 

    B.C. has a little higher taxes, except Vancouver area where they can
    go exorbitant. The worst thing is that it is more depressed for jobs
    than many other provinces. The main industry is wood and since the US
    slapped up the extra tariffs on Canadian wood, many companies have
    gone belly up. This of course leaves many out of work. Tourism,
    fishing , mining and fruit are also big, of which of course the
    tourism would be beneficial to jewellery making. There are a lot of
    artists of various persuasions throughout B.C. 

    It has the advantage of generally warmer weather than much of
    Canada, though the interior can get much snow during the winter.
    There is beautiful rocks to find, hiking, skiing, water sports on the
    many, many lakes and just breathing the fresh mountain air. We even
    have a few oddities to explore such as the Ogopogo Monster of Lake
    Okanogan http://www.vtours.com/kelowna/ogopogo.htm, and the Sasquatch
    http://anywhere.150m.com/harrisonsasquatch.htm. 

    You can grow really nice gardens that have a longer growing season
    than in Alberta. You can also grow many kinds of fruit and berries.
    Plus there is the island, Vancouver Island, where there is a great
    concentration of artists, with the added advantage of a large
    tourist visitation, including many wealthy Asian people who
    appreciate good art. There is also great selling of the artistic,
    unusual and interesting at Granville Island in Vancouver
    http://www.granvilleisland.com/en. 

    Advantage for Americans is that your dollar is worth approximately
    $1.50 Canadian. 

    Where the snow melted to make way for more snow. Apparently until
    next week. Yuck. Karen Bahr   "the Rocklady"  (rocklady AT nucleus.com)
    K.I.S. Creations May your gems always sparkle.


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