 dirtyjefferAnons on ignore.Premium
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London, ON | reply to elwoodblues
Re: hey....have your utility bills jumped up? said by elwoodblues:But if he moved to London, he'd get a job tomorrow.
that depends on what he is looking for...if he is looking for a factory job that pays $80k/year, then no, he will remain unemployed.
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Peterborough, ON | reply to elwoodblues
said by elwoodblues: But if he moved to London, he'd get a job tomorrow. Yes I'm aware of the alternative universe that some people occupy but haven't figured out how they manage to cross the space-time continuum to post here.
Perhaps JF can explain it to me in some sort of Star Trek language even I can understand. |
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... it's like we have five threads on the same topic with the same people. |
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said by AR:I checked and my heat was on 24/7. I've turned it off because I'm not in much now and it's a well insulated place anyways. I don't need to pay an extra $30 for nothing.
I'm confused. Your heat was physically on 24 hours a day? Does it not cycle on and off like a furnace would?
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said by dirtyjeffer:you should be able to heat that place with a lamp or a toaster
»www.amd.com/us/products/Pages/pr···ors.aspx
End of problem.
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said by peterboro:said by elwoodblues: But if he moved to London, he'd get a job tomorrow. Yes I'm aware of the alternative universe that some people occupy but haven't figured out how they manage to cross the space-time continuum to post here. Perhaps JF can explain it to me in some sort of Star Trek language even I can understand. I think those people are from a land of shadow and substance.
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said by AR:The US economy is coming back. Does that mean maybe our salaries will eventually go up as employers fight for talent and skilled people?
Ask the guys at the London locomotive plant. They may have an opinion about that.
Aside: a number of years ago I was at the London Air Show and there was an Antonov-124 cargo plane that had one of the London-made locomotives in it. They were flying it to Ireland.
See the Significant Activities section here »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-124 |
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dirtyjefferAnons on ignore.Premium
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London, ON | said by MaynardKrebs:Aside: a number of years ago I was at the London Air Show and there was an Antonov-124 cargo plane that had one of the London-made locomotives in it. They were flying it to Ireland.
See the Significant Activities section here »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-124
yup, i remember that...it was a pretty big news story at the time, as there was some doubt whether our airport was large enough to handle the Antonov...it was. 
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Toronto, ON | reply to MaynardKrebs
Very true. I guess some things have to get a LOT better before things improve here as well. |
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I've ranted here before in another thread. My electric bill went from 50 - 60 bucks a month to 140.00 last month. My total bill (Epcor) for electricity, water, sewage and waste was usually 90.00 - 110.00. Now its 200. Heating by natual gas.
I went to a friends last night who lives in a house, has a garage and a family. The same bill went from 200 to 428.00. Alberta Conservative rapeage at it's finest.
The good news is natural gas is cheap like borscht as my last bill was a whopping 60 bucks. I do think there's a corelation of our electricity skyrocketing when natural gas is dirt cheap. Too much of a coincidence and easier for the power company to get away with it when other necessities are cheap like gas. Imagine the consumer backlash if natural gas was expensive too... |
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Toronto, ON | yeah but you guys get so much slack otherwise. Don't you have no provincial tax and some other good stuff too like resident tax rebate of $400/person or something?
we're have nots over here, feel sorry for us! |
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| Yeah, the "Klein bucks" of 5 or 6 years ago when everyone got $400.00. Yippeee.
We might not have a sales tax but it's there, just hidden. I could honestly say the Alberta Advantage was just that in prior decades. We were, until about 5 years ago, an affordable province to live in. During the boom of the mid 2000s and afterwards though things changed real quick. Everything went up up up. Granted, we have some decent paying jobs here and a low unemployment rate.
But still, that's no excuse for Trans Alta and the Alberta Cons to rape us.
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we're have nots over here, feel sorry for us!
I do feel bad for Ontarians. Your manufacturing industry is still getting decimated, good jobs are disappearing, wages are falling and prices are going up. Not a good scene... |
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Toronto, ON
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Actually my only utility bill electricity plummeted in the last two months and I don't know why. It was $40-50 but then the last two months it has been $22 and $18. I'm not going to dig too hard (at all) into whether they might be measuring/billing it wrong somehow... |
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