Living in British Columbia, or Alberta?

Let me just add some info to someone else's comment: @ C.M C - Alberta has Banff and Jasper and the Rocky Mountains, there is just as much beautiful wilderness as BC, it's not all prairies... and there's so much money in Calgary it's not even funny. But, there is an absolute TON of people trying to do the "wilderness photography" thing in the Rocky Mountains, so you'd better have really, really good images. :)

My husband and I used to live in Toronto, grew up in that area, and moved to Victoria 2 years ago. I'm never going back. I also had a photography business and luckily enough I landed a job with a local grocery store (owned by Sobey's) taking photos of their weekly flyer sales. I can't believe how lucky I got.

Anyways, moving from Ontario to BC was the best thing we've ever done. Our happiness level skyrocketed. The only downfall about being a BC resident is you have to pay a monthly health-care fee, it's mandatory, it's about 60 bucks per person. Everyone says Canada has free health care (which is true, we don't pay for hospital bills etc) but in BC you pay what's called Medical Services Plan.

Alberta is fine if you're okay with cold winters and harsh winds and being in the prairies (if you're in the mid-east section) but you can also be in the sweet mountains. I'm sure you could get a photo gig working for local tourism centres.

Victoria is my new home and it took a long time to find a photo job, there's really not many job opportunities here, your better off in Vancouver (I always see photo-related job postings in the big city) but then again... Vancouver is just like Toronto...

Good luck!

Except near Dawson Creek, and north of there, BC is pretty much all mountains from the Alberta border all the way to the Pacific. Towns, and cities are in the valleys between mountain ranges.

Alberta has mountains, but, only along the BC border, and much of them are National Parks. The only real towns are Banff, and Jasper.

If you want mountain living, you need BC, or Yukon as well. It's also full of mountains.

Samantha, come on girl, your a photographer, if it was me there would be one direction I would be headed for, that would most definitely be BC, you can get out into the wilderness, and gets some fantastic shots.

These shots can be used on book covers, or for magazine articles, people pay real money for these.

http://www.hmscommunications.net/images/calgary.jp...

Australia, New Zealand, UK.

Those are my suggestions.

Get out of that powder keg of a country as fast as you can.

good idea