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Lexicon posted:NYC or Seattle would be my pick. I'd take SF over Toronto (i.e. Chicago weather with LA traffic at NYC prices) in a heartbeat though. There's an idea. I wonder if Boeing in Seattle will take a Bombardier employee.
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Kraftwerk posted:There's an idea. I wonder if Boeing in Seattle will take a Bombardier employee. Give it a try. Chicago too. I heard Winnipeg is a hotbed of aerospace. No joke. Something about that place is drawing a lot of drone engineering. I don't know if it's bullshit though.
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sitchensis posted:If I had the opportunity to move to San Francisco from Toronto for the same job, would you guys recommend it? It all depends if you get paid big bucks, cost of living in the Bay Area has really exploded over the last decade.
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etalian posted:It all depends if you get paid big bucks, cost of living in the Bay Area has really exploded over the last decade. Nah, it's worth it even if you don't save any money. The exposure to a real tech scene is invaluable for anyone's career. Canadian tech experience is a loving joke.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Nah, it's worth it even if you don't save any money. The exposure to a real tech scene is invaluable for anyone's career. Canadian tech experience is a loving joke. Not to mention it will make you appreciate hit show Silicon Valley even more.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Nah, it's worth it even if you don't save any money. The exposure to a real tech scene is invaluable for anyone's career. Canadian tech experience is a loving joke. There are still plenty of lucrative $80-100+/h contracts here for people with the right skills. Even with generic skills you can easily do $60+/h incorporated so I'm not sure if you have a different perspective of wealth generation as everyone else.
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jm20 posted:There are still plenty of lucrative $80-100+/h contracts here for people with the right skills. Even with generic skills you can easily do $60+/h incorporated so I'm not sure if you have a different perspective of wealth generation as everyone else. CI is a techie so he probably sees the Bay Area as a promised land.
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etalian posted:CI is a techie so he probably sees the Bay Area as a promised land. How dare he!
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someone post san francisco rent increase letter.jpg TIA
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Jumpingmanjim posted:someone post san francisco rent increase letter.jpg TIA On the bright side the landlord got caught by the city doing construction without permits, when he tried to do the home renovation to get rid of renter trick.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Here's another fact that is gonna rock your sjw world: those hong Kong Chinese that came to Vancouver in the 90s mostly all went back to HK because the job market in Canada is so terrible. That's right, a city state with more unaffordable real estate and a lousy social safety net is more attractive. This is true of the majority of the people from Hong Kong/Taiwan that I grew up with. I went to high school, undergrad, and grad school in BC and basically anyone with the opportunity to has since left. The only highly skilled professionals that stayed were doctors. Lexicon posted:San Francisco is great, but I lived there from 2007-2009 and its only gotten way more expensive and even more overly-techy since then. I don't think I'd move back, unless it was a job that I really couldn't turn down. You're talking $3k+ monthly rent for a lovely apartment at this point. I don't really understand the appeal of NYC as a tech destination, SF pays more and is basically the same CoL (3k+ is a little overblown, you can live somewhere perfectly fine for 2000-2500 if you're willing to look a bit. I pay just under 3k for a 600 sq ft studio in a ~super luxury~ building). There's also a lot more opportunity career-wise. Seattle is definitely the sweet spot for income versus CoL, about 90% of the salary, 60% of the CoL, no state taxes, and actual affordable real estate. Plus you don't need to live in fear that non-techy residents will revolt against you some day in the not-too-distant future. etalian posted:
Hard for me to cry any tears about someone getting way below market rent through rent control and then turning around and renting it out on Airbnb.
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Vancouver is hilarious since it has no jobs but has SF housing price ridiculous.
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blah_blah posted:
Any proof for that or is this one if those strawmen we've been seeing so much lately?
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Ceciltron posted:Any proof for that or is this one if those strawmen we've been seeing so much lately? Takes about 2 seconds to find a link: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...bernal-heights/ Also http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/03/17/bernal-heights-tenant-with-huge-rent-increase-addresses-airbnb-situation/ If this was Vancouver I'm sure CI would have some choice words for this "Chinese medicine practitioner who treats cancer patients" arbitraging rent control laws. blah_blah fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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We once hired a traditional chinese medicine student as an intern, she told one of our other interns that TCM could absolutely cure his fathers metastasized cancer.
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Rime posted:We once hired a traditional chinese medicine student as an intern, she told one of our other interns that TCM could absolutely cure his fathers metastasized cancer. From the article! quote:“I live hand to mouth,” “I’m an acupuncturist and treat cancer patients and the reality is that they often die from their disease. I’m always having to find new patients. January and February are always slow months for my business. I did Airbnb to make ends meet.”
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My internal urges to be a vindictive rear end in a top hat and the urge to be a good person who doesn't want to see anyone starve or go homeless are fighting again. Thanks for that.
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blah_blah posted:Takes about 2 seconds to find a link: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...bernal-heights/ Jesus loving christ, $2000/mo was the rent-controlled price for that shitheap?
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sitchensis posted:If I had the opportunity to move to San Francisco from Toronto for the same job, would you guys recommend it? Sure. Depends where in the Bay Area. Commuting to downtown SF isn't bad, you got ferries and bart. Anywhere else sorta stinks commute wise. I worked for Lucasfilm and lived in Marin county and carpooled to work from san rafeal, the commute was around 30 minutes ( unless you are in Novato the commute doubles at that bottleneck). I managed to get a 2 bedroom townhouse with 2 parking spots for 1850/mo. After I moved out it went up to 2000 still not a bad deal. That being said SF itself you are looking at 3k for a studio. If bart is an option you can go out to the burbs or Oakland and bart it in to downtown. If you are in the valley, then there's more options unless you wanna do the Google bus thing by reverse commuting from SF to mountain view or whatever .
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ChairMaster posted:The only good countries are the ones that are so far north that they get like no daylight in the winter and it's cold all year round, who would want to live in those ones ever? Maybe Denmark is okay but I doubt it. This is bit of a myth. The climate in Northern Europe (let's say from the Baltics to the southern parts of Scandinavia) can be very pleasant in the summer. We have white nights, temperature around 20-25 degrees, we are near the sea. When it's nice, it's REALLY mild and pleasant, when it's rainy and cold (for example due to El Nino), then it's cold and rainy in a lot of places. Winters have been really warm as well in the last few years. Climate warming is making Northern Europe a better place to live, one of the few places on the planet where it's true probably. Kraftwerk posted:The benefit of living in European countries is more than just economic. Way friendlier and much more attractive women are pretty common compared to a place like Toronto. I suppose if you're female the same applies to the men too, minus any men located East of Poland. If you like pretty girls you should move to my home country, Estonia. We are the #1 country in the world for fashion models per capita, winning by a landslide compared to countries that are further down the list. Seven out of the top 10 countries are located in the Baltics and Scandinavia, by the way (1. Estonia, 2. Iceland, 3, Lithuania, 4. Denmark, 5. Latvia, 6. Sweden, 9. Norway). The top 6 is ALL scandi/EE. Canada is nowhere to be found, strangely enough. OhYeah fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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OhYeah posted:This is bit of a myth. The climate in Northern Europe (let's say from the Baltics to the southern parts of Scandinavia) can be very pleasant in the summer. We have white nights, temperature around 20-25 degrees, we are near the sea. When it's nice, it's REALLY mild and pleasant, when it's rainy and cold (for example due to El Nino), then it's cold and rainy in a lot of places. Winters have been really warm as well in the last few years. Climate warming is making Northern Europe a better place to live, one of the few places on the planet where it's true probably.
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OhYeah posted:If you like pretty girls you should move to my home country, Estonia. We are the #1 country in the world for fashion models per capita, winning by a landslide compared to countries that are further down the list. Seven out of the top 10 countries are located in the Baltics and Scandinavia, by the way (1. Estonia, 2. Iceland, 3, Lithuania, 4. Denmark, 5. Latvia, 6. Sweden, 9. Norway). The top 6 is ALL scandi/EE. Canada is nowhere to be found, strangely enough. My last girlfriend was Estonian. The only times she wasn't wearing high heels was inclement weather and exercise. On top of that she was way more of an academic achiever than me. Practically slept through her undergrad, CFA and MBA. Makes like quadruple my income now. Every time we went out we drew attention from both genders. It was hilarious to see how jealous and spiteful the caker chicks were. Dating her was a pleasant reminder of how awesome the Baltic states are. Kraftwerk fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...rticle23963034/quote:
GOOD MORNING MOTHERFUCKERS
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Manufacturing in Canada is getting utterly loving raped.
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...rticle23963034/ I guess the solution is to make the minimum wage in Canada about $5 US a day so we can compete with Mexico? Or maybe people could start paying more for Corollas?
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Hammering Boeing 's career site with applications. I gotta get outta here. This entire company is an anachronism from 1978 and I have a feeling reality is about to "correct" it.
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Kraftwerk posted:Hammering Boeing 's career site with applications. I gotta get outta here. This entire company is an anachronism from 1978 and I have a feeling reality is about to "correct" it. What about Lockheed? I hear the f35 project is hiring.
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Kraftwerk posted:My last girlfriend was Estonian. The only times she wasn't wearing high heels was inclement weather and exercise. On top of that she was way more of an academic achiever than me. Practically slept through her undergrad, CFA and MBA. Makes like quadruple my income now. My 16-year old daughter is a very good student in school, despite being away from school months at a time. Plus she is very talented in foreign languages (English, French, Russian), plays the cello and piano. And she's a model. PS. What the hell is a caker chick?
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lol
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Also, big day today. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...rticle23959859/ quote:Poloz to update on economy
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The problem with BoC rate day under Poloz is the guy flips a coin to determine policy and makes up words to support the coins decision.
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OhYeah posted:PS. What the hell is a caker chick? Its a word I appropriated from the Italian community to express my frustration with Anglo Canadian culture. Urban Dictionary posted:
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Ceciltron posted:My internal urges to be a vindictive rear end in a top hat and the urge to be a good person who doesn't want to see anyone starve or go homeless are fighting again. Thanks for that. Death by guillotine for the TCM AirBnB scam-artist! Those two parts of you will have to fight no longer.
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Thanks to this thread I've learned that Toronto is full of unfriendly, ugly women and has a comparable cost of living to NYC with traffic as bad as LA. Also goons frequently express dumb and wrong opinions.
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eXXon posted:Thanks to this thread I've learned that Toronto is full of unfriendly, ugly women and has a comparable cost of living to NYC with traffic as bad as LA. Also goons frequently express dumb and wrong opinions. And also Pearson is a terrible, garbage airport. I haven't been to JFK or LAX, so I can't compare those, but YYZ is definitely worse than AMS, about equal with Frankfurt, and significantly worse than IAH.
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Forums intellectual makes a tautology
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PT6A posted:And also Pearson is a terrible, garbage airport. I haven't been to JFK or LAX, so I can't compare those, but YYZ is definitely worse than AMS, about equal with Frankfurt, and significantly worse than IAH. You have not experienced airport hell until you've spent time in LAX's domestic terminal. The international one isn't much better but ohhhhhhhhh boy LAX domestic is probably my least favourite place on the planet. CDG used to be terrible then they upgraded it so now it's ok. YVR is pretty good by international airport standards except for how they designed it so you have like a ten minute walk to customs when you arrive.
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Kraftwerk posted:This entire
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HookShot posted:You have not experienced airport hell until you've spent time in LAX's domestic terminal. The international one isn't much better but ohhhhhhhhh boy LAX domestic is probably my least favourite place on the planet. They probably stole that design feature from YYC. It's a pretty passable airport when you're departing, but motherfucker does it ever take a long goddamn time to get to customs. Hopefully that's fixed when the new international terminal opens.
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Airport hell talk: Get back to me when you've been to Logan in Boston. Ugh.
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