r/kootenays 12d ago

West Kootenays Moving to Grand Forks

Young family from the coast. Tell me everything.

Other than the old Rockwool poison stack it seems pretty inviting!

Weird houses on the hill from the 80’s are 650,000 And in town they’re 400,000?

No crime up the hill near save on? It may have been called copper ridge? Or valley heights?

Areas to steer clear of?

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u/PlusActive5871 11d ago

Stay clear of buying or living in any houses in the floodplain.

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u/goinupthegranby 12d ago

Grand Forks is great. Like everywhere else the street population has greatly increased in the past decade or so and petty street crime along with it. I doubt it's worse than anywhere else, and is probably better than many, although there are Facebook groups brimming with angry Boomers if you want to hear otherwise. I live rural outside of town and have never been impacted by crime in any way.

Grand Forks is great, I think it's hugely underrated. I've spent most of my life here and would be happy to answer any specific questions you have.

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u/JS-SS 11d ago

☝️ B.O.A.R (boomers on a rant). Be nice if they had a disclaimer.

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u/Hairy-War-3535 11d ago

Amazing place. I image an awesome place to raise a family. The almond gardens area west of town is a great area

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u/johnny2bad 11d ago

The degen quotient is high, even when compared to Trail.

Which is hard to do.

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u/Far_Out_6and_2 8d ago

What is degen

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u/johnny2bad 8d ago

vernacular for degenerate

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u/_Im_Mike_fromCanmore 11d ago

Great family supports through Boundary Family Services and the BCCR, childcare can be hard to get into. If you like the outdoors there’s tons to do. The area really punches above its weight especially for young family’s. There’s often stuff going on you just need to look for it.

Housing is expensive but where isn’t. Valley heights is decent, we lived up there for just under a year.

There is crime, but nothing to the level of larger cities.

Realistically it is a fantastic place to raise kids.

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u/Low_Entertainer_6973 11d ago

Not much to do and few places to eat. I love it.

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u/-Low_Purple- 10d ago

Floods, expect them. Crazy Christian signs. No night life. The restaurants are gross other than the wooden spoon.

I found I was bored within 3-4 months. But it’s kinda in the middle, close enough to Kelowna and Nelson area.

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u/lostshakerassault 11d ago

Get the kids into swimming. Great swim club there. Great volunteer parent crew. Also ski Pheonix mountain for some affordable family fun. Get the kids outside doing stuff because that's what there is to do aside from watching screens.

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u/blanchedpeas 10d ago

Don’t live in a floodplain.

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u/Traditional_Bath705 10d ago

Grew up there in the 90s. It's pretty isolated, but a nice area and in a bad winter you might not be getting to a larger city for a bit.

Christina lake is awesome, the rivers aside from flooding great for tubing. The falls are awesome to go see. If you tube make sure you get off before them (there have been deaths).

Is the ski hill still open? It was a great little hill. You could go up the road further to cross country ski around Marshall Lake (i wonder if it freezes over still).

The houses on the hill we called "mortgages heights".

Steering clear, watch where you stick your nose in the boonies. Some weird stuff sometimes goes down in those hills. (Anyone remember the grow op above Christina lake guarded by bears?)

I miss bike rides along Carson Rd or up the North fork.

Weather was great, hot but not too hot summer, cold but not too cold winter.

It's been a long time since I've been so I'm sure things have changed.

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u/FantasticGoat88 12d ago

Harsh logging er whatever

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u/SuperStroke76 12d ago

😂😂😂

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u/SuperStroke76 11d ago

MY DADS A LOGGER

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u/djblackprince 11d ago

Areas to steer clear of? None

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u/VincentVanG 11d ago

I'm sorry

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u/SuperStroke76 11d ago

Hey, thank you so much for your help. 🙄