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I moved back to PEI and it is pretty agreeable to me. Cost of living has doubled since I was last here, but that still means (most) rentals are around $1/square foot. Charlottetown is definitely pricier in places. Houses are a lot more expensive than pre-pandemic, but still lots between 200 and 300. The speculators are eating poo poo right now in the Summerside area, it rules and prices are dropping. The island has big problems, especially around healthcare, but you can actually afford to live here.
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Randalor posted:I'm phoneposting and can't be bothered to figure out how to post a gif, so just pretend I put the gif of Tim Curry saying "Spaaaaace!" from Red Alert 3 here. incredible things are happening in Mexico I’m still blown away by 1900 rent for North Dartmouth in Halifax. like what the gently caress are people doing there. unless you’re a Cortland Cronk type rich kid you aren’t making enough for that my first pay raise in NS was… 0.5%. at that point why even bother printing a letter to send me? employers there are ridiculously cheap
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Virtual Russian posted:I moved back to PEI and it is pretty agreeable to me. Cost of living has doubled since I was last here, but that still means (most) rentals are around $1/square foot. Charlottetown is definitely pricier in places. Houses are a lot more expensive than pre-pandemic, but still lots between 200 and 300. The speculators are eating poo poo right now in the Summerside area, it rules and prices are dropping. wait so PEI wasn’t taken over by Toronto WFH gang? I’d like Summerside honestly, even if winter can get rough
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They are here for sure, that is what drove the cost of living up. However, a bunch went back after winter, and tons of speculators bought everything on the market last year. Almost every listing I've looked at the last few months was purchased last year, and is now listed at least 10k under what they paid. I'm going to wait until January and then start lowballing speculators. Everyone I've talked to thinks a serious correction is about to happen in Summerside. People thought it was going to take off like Charlottetown, but it didn't. Summerside does feel like a proper town now, but I'm not going to wait until the winter to say that for sure. It kinda feels like Summerside is what you'd get if you combined Moncton and Shediac. Charlottetown is still going up though, at least from what I hear. It feels like a real city there now, it reminded me of KW a lot. Edit: also as a follow up to my landlord that said the rent was too high (his son arranged the rental): He dropped the rent by a whole month, crazy. Has said we can stay forever at that rate if we want. He also fixed our car for free when the door broke. I am paying his mortgage, but as far as landlords go he's pretty good. He doesn't use the internet, which is probably the source of all his general decentness. He insisted on arranging the internet and is including it in the rent we already pay. I have no idea what he got, but I can download around 20mb/s in Summerside! Last time I was here I had satellite internet. Virtual Russian has issued a correction as of 23:34 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Virtual Russian posted:They are here for sure, that is what drove the cost of living up. However, a bunch went back after winter, and tons of speculators bought everything on the market last year. Almost every listing I've looked at the last few months was purchased last year, and is now listed at least 10k under what they paid. I'm going to wait until January and then start lowballing speculators. Everyone I've talked to thinks a serious correction is about to happen in Summerside. People thought it was going to take off like Charlottetown, but it didn't. Summerside does feel like a proper town now, but I'm not going to wait until the winter to say that for sure. It kinda feels like Summerside is what you'd get if you combined Moncton and Shediac. ngl i miss living in kw, i bet i'd like charlottetown a lot (i do love the maritimes, generally)
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Isentropy posted:wait so PEI wasn’t taken over by Toronto WFH gang? they realized that what they were paying for in toronto was having stuff to do and returned. also, their employers cancelled wfh
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It owns that like everytime I check the NS section of the CBC there's some Ontario yuppie couple whining about something. Half the time they're landlords or property developers or in marketing. Go home then fuckos!!
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don’t even get me started about how their failchildren completely gut our university system here
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tuyop posted:don’t even get me started about how their failchildren completely gut our university system here I’m interested please tell
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Arivia posted:I’m interested please tell federal funding for higher ed is tied to how many university students reside in your province, not how many attend in your province. residing, of course, being defined as a student’s permanent address. this rule made, somehow, by a government elected mostly in the regions that stand to gain from the arrangement.
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PEI is nice but it's terminally car brained, which I guess makes sense when 90% of people there are farmers, or pretending to be farmers. I was visiting family there and wanted to do a mini-trip to Halifax and just couldn't without renting a car and driving halfway to Moncton first. There's a ferry but absolutely no busses to either end of it. I ended up turo-ing a car from someone in a subdivision that was just a dozen giant newish ugly McMansions sitting in a huge loop in the middle of a giant field with absolutely nothing for kilometers in any direction. It felt like a parody of a suburb. also like a third of my cousins there have died from rare blood cancers because the water is like half pesticide by volume
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DaysBefore posted:It owns that like everytime I check the NS section of the CBC there's some Ontario yuppie couple whining about something. Half the time they're landlords or property developers or in marketing. Go home then fuckos!! First they complain that their new house is on fire, then they complain that it’s underwater. Nothing is good enough for the big city folk.
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 Danielle Smith went all out for her constituents at the parade in her riding this morning.
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tuyop posted:federal funding for higher ed is tied to how many university students reside in your province, not how many attend in your province. Wait, what?
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Frosted Flake posted:Wait, what? https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers/canada-social-transfer.html quote:What is the Canada Social Transfer (CST)?
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So is it saying that because everybody wants to study at the elite Ontario schools, the other provinces get cash for students that are currently attending UofT?
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here’s the formula as well. since it’s based almost entirely on resident population, the cst functions to funnel education funding out of have-not provinces into have provinces. https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp381-e.htm#A.%20Calculationtxt so if 1000 students from Ontario leave and study at UNB for some reason, Ontario gets the equivalent CST payment for those 1000 students, while their universities now have 1000 fewer students to serve so that money goes 1000 students farther. most students in the maritimes can’t afford to go elsewhere for school so the, say, 1000 students from Moncton going to UNB now have to split their CST funding with the Ontarians visiting for their degree. there are some attempts to address this inequality by giving lovely provinces higher per-capita transfers, but the whole set of assumptions on which the system is based is flawed.
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1000 students attend School in NB, NB gets payments for 1000 students. Doesn't matter where they live. Bing bong pay my consulting fee Trudump
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tuyop posted:here’s the formula as well. since it’s based almost entirely on resident population, the cst functions to funnel education funding out of have-not provinces into have provinces. https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp381-e.htm#A.%20Calculationtxt let's not forget that out of province students studying in Onterrible get charged insane tuition (Thanks Mike Harris!) so the universities aren't the ones losing out on any cash.
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Bilirubin posted:let's not forget that out of province students studying in Onterrible get charged insane tuition (Thanks Mike Harris!) so the universities aren't the ones losing out on any cash. lol wait until you find out what Quebecois born students pay vs out of province
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Isizzlehorn posted:1000 students attend School in NB, NB gets payments for 1000 students. Doesn't matter where they live. counterpoint: NB is neither ON nor QC so you’re fired
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have those have not provinces tried having?
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every province that is not BC or Quebec is fake and bullshit
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Juul-Whip posted:have those have not provinces tried having? yeah, a couple times.
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Virtual Russian posted:They are here for sure, that is what drove the cost of living up. However, a bunch went back after winter, and tons of speculators bought everything on the market last year. Almost every listing I've looked at the last few months was purchased last year, and is now listed at least 10k under what they paid. I'm going to wait until January and then start lowballing speculators. A friend of mine has some clients that are professional landlords, with a large portfolio of apartments and detached homes etc and he said that through 2021/2022 they pretty much entirely stopped doing any deals at all in BC and Ontario because it no longer made any financial sense whatsoever, and their entire investment focus of all these BC property investors honed in on New Brunswick and PEI. Apparently this was pretty common. Femtosecond has issued a correction as of 19:03 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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good test of "malice or incompetence" edit: the federal post-secondary funding formula I mean
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pokeyman posted:good test of "malice or incompetence" I prefer "the purpose of a system is what it does" in this case
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tuyop posted:I prefer "the purpose of a system is what it does" in this case oh for sure. a "mistake" benefitting an atlantic province would be corrected in no time
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Another Bill posted:lol wait until you find out what Quebecois born students pay vs out of province Yeah in that case though the province is not really able to raise tuition on the in province students lest they revolt again, and so funds to universities are constrained, so all out of province students get to pay for everything needed! For US based students, its still a really good deal
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where outside Quebec have the students done anything when the tuition gets raised? has it been successful?
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Another Bill posted:lol wait until you find out what Quebecois born students pay vs out of province It kinda rules that Ontarians going to McGill and Concordia for their future jobs in the LPC have to pay insane tuition to get that pedigree though.
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I think when I was at Concordia I was paying $210/class and les Autres were in the $800-1000/class range. I couldn't believe it then.
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Another Bill posted:lol wait until you find out what Quebecois born students pay vs out of province Quebec is the only thing even approaching a society in north america lol
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La Louve Rouge posted:Quebec is the only thing even approaching a society in north america lol a true society is incredibly racist so this checks out
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I could swear Québec used to be less racist.
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Frosted Flake posted:It kinda rules that Ontarians going to McGill and Concordia for their future jobs in the LPC have to pay insane tuition to get that pedigree though.
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La Louve Rouge posted:Quebec is the only thing even approaching a society in north america lol they do with the catch that they’re still captured by boomer brain. the people who run stuff realize that infrastructure is necessary so you’re getting subway and trains and buses and power plants but also culture war bullshit
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MonsieurChoc posted:I could swear Québec used to be less racist. username/post combo What the gently caress is FRENCH this is western alienation
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