Kia Ora,
from the land of the long white cloud and flightless bird. My wife and i arrived in Kamloops less than a month ago, we've made two earlier trips here both in winter and summer months, looked at some properties. It's a nice place here, cost of living compared to Vancouver is better. Generally the people here are very courteous, find you have to engage people first otherwise very friendly folks. Even the bus drivers are nice. Great places to eat here too...very important to stave off winter hunger. Lots of adventures to be had here. Beware kiwi's, Canadians concept of distance is similar to Australians where to drive for 3hrs is "to just head down the road aye". It's a big country.
my wife has a tenured appointment here at Thompson Rivers University. I'm goofing for a bit but I'm a New Zealand qualified industrial/instrumentation electrician. Love this snow, bought our first Canadian snow shovel and gave it heaps yesterday...neighbour said my enthusiasm will soon fade, suspect he's right.