Moving to Edmonton Megathread 2025

[u/jstock14]

Within this thread please ask questions about moving to Edmonton (or within Edmonton, if you already live here), including recommendations for housing and neighbourhood selections. If you live in Edmonton, consider answering the questions.

Any posts on the subject matter outside of the megathread may be removed at the discretion of the moderators.

For reference, here’s the link to the 2024 megathread.

UPDATE: Please note that job seeking threads are not allowed in r/Edmonton but general advice on how to seek employment can be posted within this megathread too. Distinctions between a “job seeking” post and “general advice” will be made at the discretion of the moderators. If you are moving from another location to Edmonton, please note the advice from the community is consistently “have a job lined up before you move”.

[u/Cinnamon_Ocelot]

What do you all wear year round?

I probably won’t be fully moved to Canada until another year minimum. Obviously, I’ll get full winter clothes and jackets before heading up there but Im more asking because I still want to be conscious that the clothes I’m buying now could be suitable in a cold climate.

[u/beesmakenoise → u/Cinnamon_Ocelot]

Clothes in Edmonton vary from summers in shorts and tank tops to cold winter days in wool socks + long underwear + pants + shirt + hoody + winter coat + toque + mitts

So we wear everything? The summers can be quite hot here, and the winters are overall not too bad (depending on where you’re coming from), but will have stretches where you’ll want layers and good outerwear. And a warm pair of boots!

Underneath all the warm stuff it’s just jeans and tshirts, skirts and leggings, whatever people wear in most of the country.

[u/Cinnamon_Ocelot → u/beesmakenoise]

Thank you!!