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Busy city life ground us down. Our move to the prairies gave us the quiet we needed

CBC·Shandean Reid·6 months ago
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Saskatchewan · First Person

Shandean Reid and her husband worked hard to make a life as two young professionals, but her husband's constant work made it hard for him to spend time with their young daughter. A radical move from Jamaica to Canada, followed by settling in Saskatchewan, brought them the peace they were desperately searching for.

A demanding work schedule came at a cost to our family until we decided the trade-off wasn't worth it

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Shandean Reid, right, says she and her family needed a slower pace of life than they found in Jamaica, and later Toronto. A move to Saskatchewan gave them that. (Submitted by Shandean Reid)

This First Person column is the experience of Shandean Reid, who lives in Regina.…

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