Pools in the Okanogan

Here is a website for a club in Vernon.  http://kalrats.com/home//>
Armstrong has an outdoor pool, while Vernon has a rec centre with indoor pool, arenas etc. IIRC the Vernon swim team is called the Vernon Kokanees...

Also, a BT member named kelownagirl may have some info to help you out.

kelly

Is there anyone on here who happens to live in Vernon? Trying to find out what the good and bad neighborhoods are in town. The same advice would be appreciated for Armstrong, Winfield, and Lake Country.

Thanks.

Where will you be working? The trek from Armstrong to Winfield is...long.

We've got a house in Vernon being rented out and my mum lives in Coldstream (outskirts on the Kelowna side of Vernon, nice rural area, relatively convenient to the highway if you need to drive that way).

'Bad' neighbourhoods are anywhere right around the sewage treatment plan (lots of low rent housing with less than stellar inhabitants at times), as around both arenas (they're both pretty low rent areas).  Some real nice subdivisions are out towards Coldstream (just off Buchanan Road) or up towards Silver Star (ie Phoenix Estates) and then out by Kin Beach (ie Longacre Drive area off Okanagan Landing Road...well past the sewage treatment plant and by the lake - where our rental house is...which we're wanting to sell, btw!), also Middleton Mountain area is nice.  Most "in town" isn't fantastic. Out by Kal Lake is pretty nice, too (the Vernon side of Coldstream).

Lake Country has some nice areas (Winfield is part of "Lake Country" now...that's the new muni name for Oyama, Winfield, and a couple other areas whose names I can't remember)....and some not so awesome neighbourhoods.  Off the highway (North/West usually is better).

Thanks for the reply. I will be working in Salmon Arm and my wife in either Vernon or Kelowna. We currently live in a bedroom community north of Calgary so hour long commutes are common place for us. I will pm you about your rent to own. If we can't sell our house fast enough that may very well be an option we are looking at.

Are you familiar with the area? I'm not wanting to beat a dead horse here, but you may find the trek through country roads (highway, but still through "the country") daily to be quite a different matter than being stuck in traffic waiting to get into the city centre.  I'm guessing that if she can't get a job in SA, you guys will want to live as close to in the middle of her job and yours as possible (ie Armstrong/Enderby with her working in Vernon).

There is no way you'd want to deal with a daily commute from Winfield to SA...it would not be pleasant for a week, much less daily for...an indeterminate time.

Good luck!

Right now we really have our sights set on some of the communities in Lake Country. Through MLS (not the same as seeing them in person), that seems to be the place (other than Salmon Arm) to get the best bang for our buck. There seems to be a lot of really nice, newer places. Vernon appears to be a little over priced.

I think my wife might be able to work in Salmon Arm, but there just doesn't seem to be the amenities available that there is living closer to Vernon or Kelowna. I think we are going to go out in a week or so to look at places.