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justaguy
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
Location: seoul
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| I'm sure the winters are still bad and the taxes are still high. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| justaguy wrote: |
| I'm sure the winters are still bad and the taxes are still high. |
If you're living in Vancouver then no to winters. If you're living in Alberta or even Ontario these days, no to taxes. |
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justaguy
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| I'm sure the income tax and payroll deductions are still huge. And from what I hear there are lots of new licence/permit requirements with hefty fees to go with them. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| justaguy wrote: |
| I'm sure the income tax and payroll deductions are still huge. And from what I hear there are lots of new licence/permit requirements with hefty fees to go with them. |
You're being vague. |
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supernick
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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The cost of doing business in Canada as evidenced by this article, is in fact lass than the U.S.
Permits and incorporation fees do not appear to be higher, nor do taxes.
http://www.gazette.com/common/printer/view.php?db=colgazette&id=34679
Weak dollar makes doing business in U.S. a bargain
By VINNEE TONG
March 27, 2008 - 8:44PM
NEW YORK - Thanks to the weakened dollar, the U.S. has leapfrogged France, Britain and other European countries as a cheaper place to do business.
A study released Thursday by the auditing and consulting firm KPMG shows that the U.S. moved up on the list of most cost-efficient places around the world. Researchers compared 136 cities in 10 countries in North America, Europe and Asia, but did not include fast-growing China.
Mark MacDonald, the global director of KPMG Competitive Alternatives, said the survey authors found the U.S. to be more cost competitive than they'd ever seen because of the plunging dollar.
In 2006, the U.S. ranked seventh and lagged behind several other G7 countries. This year, though, only Mexico and Canada were cheaper. The U.S. is now cheaper than Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and France.
The study, which measures competitiveness using labor costs, taxes, real estate and utilities, as well as nonmonetary factors, is done every two years.
In the U.S., the cheapest places to operate were Atlanta; Tampa, Fla.; and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
HOW THEY RANK
KPMG ranked the affordability of doing business in 10 of the biggest industrial nations.
Here's how they ranked in 2008, vs. 2006 (in parentheses). The study is conducted every two years.
1. Mexico (N/A)*
2. Canada (2)
3. United States (7)
4. Australia (1)
5. France (3)
6. Britain (6)
7. The Netherlands (4) |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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"If you're living in Alberta or even Ontario these days, no to taxes."
Huh?! What? More please... Are you saying they only went down a little, or significantly? |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| ...Was there for about a month and couldn't stand the sheer dullness of people and the culture. Sure its cleaner, everyone is polite, and its quite scenic. But its expensive, boring, people do act like aholes when drunk,... |
can't disagree with any of this
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| ... and no one is into anything remotely interesting. |
uh, ... compared to Koreans, Canada is full of renaissance men and women doing a million interesting hobbies, especially in the over thirty crowd |
I don't know about you but living on Vancouver island is like being on the moon. People's hobbies. Siting and drinking beer after work. Every one goes to sleep and at 9pm everything is closed. Boring dull and uninteresting. Sure some people are into hobbies but its far and few in between. Koreans may not have tons of hobbies either but at least they are more colorful and not in the sense of bad fashion either.. (well they have that too.) |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Temporary wrote: |
| I don't know about you but living on Vancouver island is like being on the moon. People's hobbies. Siting and drinking beer after work. Every one goes to sleep and at 9pm everything is closed. Boring dull and uninteresting. |
Vancouver Island??? uh,... if you are talking about public activities in a small town, then yeah. A small town is a small town. But while there's "nothing to do" publicly like there is in cities in 10 million plus, people are actually doing plenty of interesting hobbies, not just drinking beer and going to bed, especially on the weekends.
Vancouver Island has thousands of artists! Sure many are so good they do it as a job but many more do it as a hobby. http://www.explorevancouverisland.com/Island_Art_Vancouver_Island_BC.htm
Fishing and hunting and beachcombing and gardening are of course staple hobbies on the island, and the varieties one encounters is staggering.
A know a couple of guys into model trains
http://pacificcoast.net/~trainman/
The island is FULL of homes you can visit of a man or woman who carves wood or crochets sweaters or collects rocks. It is a very interesting place BECAUSE people do interesting things in their spare time, they SHOW you how interesting it is. Yes they are truckers and loggers and receptionists and teachers but they are so much more with their passions.
In contrast, Koreans seem to have few interesting hobbies. Norebanging and hiking and making gimchi.
I find Korea interesting for several reasons but not for the hobbies of its locals. Asking them what they do in their free time is a fruitless inquiry. There are exceptions but it sure seems rare. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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See. All those hobbies you mentioned are for the old and feeble. Which the island is chalk full of.
The island.. The place where the Newly Weds or the Newly Deads go.. Usually Newly weds realize how much it sucks and they move back to mainland.
I lived in Nanaimo.. God what a crap hole.. Seriously. Nothing to do even on the weekends. Sorry I still stand by my observations that Canada is boring. Maybe because I am single at 28 and everyone in Canada is married, has a house, a kid, and a car and is up to their eyeballs in debt. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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We're talking about lifestyle, socializing opportunities, recreational experiences which are most important in getting anything out of life, but for that to be possible, we need economics in our favor. Let's talk business and economics.
How's the job market and economy up there in Vancouver and around other parts of Canada? Can Americans show up to go to work since the American job market is sour beyond belief? Will Canada devise immigration policies to protect its' economic interests?
I was researching this topic several years ago, but found the system favors business people. Of course that is always the case anywhere you go.
Can some of you from Canada fill us all in on the economic and job market situation? |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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My wife grew up on vanc. i. She was never bored in that town (grew up near ladysmith in the COOOOUNTRY); she saw HUNDREDS of live music shows there.
Course neither of us can speak to the present sitch in nanaimo but growing up, wifey had a GREAT time on the island. Though she did comment on how many of the people there were somewhat "red-necky". She's never really pinned down exactly what that meant. |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| justaguy wrote: |
| I'm sure the winters are still bad and the taxes are still high. |
Ahh, the true Canadian conversation constants...you just left out universal health care and you'd be 3/3. |
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