For some, though, there was opportunity — they seized the chance to start new businesses, pursued unfulfilled dreams or moved across the country. Maybe those changes would have come eventually, at least for some, but the pandemic gave them a boost or a push in that direction.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Here’s why two Canadians from Toronto, with great careers in the financial sector, left it all behind to live in paradise.The beginning is us really buying our property in 2013. We actually were surfers and we liked to travel a lot and back in 2013 we had this joke about having this dream life living on the beach one day.Article content
And then I kind of looked around and was like, OK, so now I’m supposed to do this for another 30 years before I retire? So, basically, pandemic summer 2020, I had a four-year-old daughter and she was like ‘It’s summer, it’s hot, mommy, I want an inflatable pool.’ So, I went to your big box store, got the inflatable pool, got in it with her and she was so happy.
Melanie McNamee in a Lykke pool: “I think the pandemic kind of like ushered me onto a new path and one that I maybe was meant to take.”And you know, you worry, like, what if it fails.
And then when we packed up, we moved to Calgary briefly, but then we started reading about Edmonton and we found it was more our pace.