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As a Canadian immigrant since 1964 (moved due N 6 hrs from Minnesota) and as someone who has mostly made their living as a Programmer here since 1981 and as someone who has visited almost every province - enough to judge the weather and job climate, and as someone who has visited Sweden - I feel somewhat qualified to to respond with advice (something I have experience with also LOL). English as 1st language requirement does rule out anywhere in Quebec. Sorry, but if it IS important, that's still the way it is. I studied French at Laval and did find Quebecers friendly and tolerant once they got to know you - which actually is true of pretty much all Canadians (except perhaps Toronto...and maybe Calgary)- and Montreal and especially Old Quebec City are beautiful. Vancouver (in Beautiful B.C.) is probably where I would choose to live if family considerations hadn't intervened, but fails your weather test ("Vancouverites don't tan - they rust"). The closest places to fit your criteria are probably Winnipeg (where I live) and Saskatoon. But as much as I enjoy living here, it is one of the last places I'd recommend for working as a Programmer - and not just because of the low salaries (I have in fact sworn to NEVER ever again work as a full-time Programmer in Manitoba), and as for Saskatchewan, everybody that I have ever known who went there to work in IT, drops out of contact, which is just too eerie for words (I am totally serious about that). (...and it's really too bad, because the Mid-Western States just South of the border - Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin - are crammed with people of Nordic heritage (in fact, I am part Norwegian and at our lake place in Minnesota we are surrounded by Andersons, Christiansons, Larsons, etc. Uf-Da!) Thunder Bay in NW Ontario has a thriving Finnish community, but it's not a big city. The only place I know of in Canada that has natural hot-springs (I assume that's what you're referring to) is Banff (National Park SW of Calgary), but I find Calgarians to be oppressively distant emotionally. Edmonton might be good, but I'm not current on the job situation right now, though I think it's good. Should be good for your wife as well. The kids should fit in fine anywhere and easily find their activities - even the prairies have ski hills. I have personally cycled (or known those who have) in evry locale and that's definitely no problem either, though DRIVERS tend to be the main thing you have to worry about in Winnipeg and Quebec. As far as paperwork and permissions, if you get a job li