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Why Western PEI? | Top 5 Reasons to be Here
Top 5 Reasons to be Here

Top 5 Reasons to be here

A Business Retention and Expansion Survey of 65 Western PEI businesses identified the following top five advantages to operating a business here:

1. Quality of life:

  • Small Community, All know one another
  • Great views
  • Local people greet everyone, Even new people

 

2. Support from local businesses:

  • Local businesses know how it is to start a new business up and are willing to lend a helping hand
  • Supportive of one another

 

3. Support from local residents;
  •  Residents value the local businesses,
  •  Support the causes that effect local residents
 
4. Property Costs:
  • Low Real Estate costs
  • Open market

 

5. Great place to be

 

Other advantages to consider:

  •  The availability and relatively low cost to develop land;
  •  Proximity to available agricultural and marine-based resources;
  • A stable, dedicated labourforce;
  •   Welcoming communities;
  •   A genuine rural setting less than 90 minutes from an international airport
  •   Within a market of day's drive to a more than 30 million people