Just a regular day

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

Yep, just a regular day.

How is things for you ? i think i might also move in couple of months to Manitoba as well. What advice can you give me ? I will stay a year or so.

How is transportation there ?

First of all, you have to get an apartment that has nearby bus stop and has buses that pass by time to time. You don't want to stay outside for 30mins in a -40C temperature. Some bus stops has corridors, some has heaters on the bench but most of them doesn't have. I'm lucky that I can see the upcoming bus from my apartment so I wait inside the building and I only ride 1 bus going to work. I suggest to get a car immediately once you get here.

Another thing is, invest on clothing! That's very important. It will benefit you in the long run.

manxam

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

Yep, just a regular day.

How is things for you ? i think i might also move in couple of months to Manitoba as well. What advice can you give me ? I will stay a year or so.

How is transportation there ?

Why Manitoba? No offence to @darrel, but it's not the best hub for businesses or employment and the weather just plain sucks

Manitoba and Sask. are kind of bystanders as far as provinces go. Industry tends to move to :
Vancouver, BC
Edmonton or Calgary, AB
Toronto or Ottawa, ON
Montreal, QC

and that's where the jobs are. Of course, the cost of living in those places is also significantly higher.
I.e. $2000 a month for a 400sq-ft "mini" apartment or $650,000 for a "starter home"

darrel

@manxam I'm not offended at all. I actually 100% agree with you. I'm planning to move when I get to have a foundation like an experience and earn some cash of course.

flaxking

My brother moved to Victoria, I stayed on the prairies. He makes more than double what I make, but he can't afford to buy a house out there. I own 120 acres.

manxam

Cost of living is extremely high in Ontario and BC. Alberta is still where it's at for high salary with moderate cost of living...

BC is a beautiful place but, due to Asian investors, the cost of living is ridiculous. The government is trying to put a stop to that but we'll see where that goes.
Ontario is high because it's "the center of things" economy wise.

@darrel : Kore seems like a pretty large and decent company. Any reason why you'd be looking to move away from them?

scottalanmiller

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

@manxam I'm not offended at all. I actually 100% agree with you. I'm planning to move when I get to have a foundation like an experience and earn some cash of course.

I love Ottawa, Halifax, and Montreal.

Emad R

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

Yep, just a regular day.

How is things for you ? i think i might also move in couple of months to Manitoba as well. What advice can you give me ? I will stay a year or so.

How is transportation there ?

First of all, you have to get an apartment that has nearby bus stop and has buses that pass by time to time. You don't want to stay outside for 30mins in a -40C temperature. Some bus stops has corridors, some has heaters on the bench but most of them doesn't have. I'm lucky that I can see the upcoming bus from my apartment so I wait inside the building and I only ride 1 bus going to work. I suggest to get a car immediately once you get here.

Another thing is, invest on clothing! That's very important. It will benefit you in the long run.

Thanks,
I dont think we can get any good clothing for winter as the ones they sell there. I looked online and it seems used cars are cheap in Canada, can you really get one for only 1000 CAD ?

darrel

@manxam said in Just a regular day:

Cost of living is extremely high in Ontario and BC. Alberta is still where it's at for high salary with moderate cost of living...

BC is a beautiful place but, due to Asian investors, the cost of living is ridiculous. The government is trying to put a stop to that but we'll see where that goes.
Ontario is high because it's "the center of things" economy wise.

@darrel : Kore seems like a pretty large and decent company. Any reason why you'd be looking to move away from them?

Yeah pretty big. I'd say because of Winnipeg? Anyway, I'm still new here so I'm yet to actually decide if I'd settle here or not.

darrel

@scottalanmiller said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

@manxam I'm not offended at all. I actually 100% agree with you. I'm planning to move when I get to have a foundation like an experience and earn some cash of course.

I love Ottawa, Halifax, and Montreal.

I would love to move in any one of them

darrel

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

Yep, just a regular day.

How is things for you ? i think i might also move in couple of months to Manitoba as well. What advice can you give me ? I will stay a year or so.

How is transportation there ?

First of all, you have to get an apartment that has nearby bus stop and has buses that pass by time to time. You don't want to stay outside for 30mins in a -40C temperature. Some bus stops has corridors, some has heaters on the bench but most of them doesn't have. I'm lucky that I can see the upcoming bus from my apartment so I wait inside the building and I only ride 1 bus going to work. I suggest to get a car immediately once you get here.

Another thing is, invest on clothing! That's very important. It will benefit you in the long run.

Thanks,
I dont think we can get any good clothing for winter as the ones they sell there. I looked online and it seems used cars are cheap in Canada, can you really get one for only 1000 CAD ?

Buy some windproof clothes before going here, then buy more jackets and coats here because they're pretty cheap since they are common types of clothes in this place. About the car, yes you can get a decent and cheap cars here. Just make sure to buy to the right person.

flaxking

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

Yep, just a regular day.

How is things for you ? i think i might also move in couple of months to Manitoba as well. What advice can you give me ? I will stay a year or so.

How is transportation there ?

First of all, you have to get an apartment that has nearby bus stop and has buses that pass by time to time. You don't want to stay outside for 30mins in a -40C temperature. Some bus stops has corridors, some has heaters on the bench but most of them doesn't have. I'm lucky that I can see the upcoming bus from my apartment so I wait inside the building and I only ride 1 bus going to work. I suggest to get a car immediately once you get here.

Another thing is, invest on clothing! That's very important. It will benefit you in the long run.

Thanks,
I dont think we can get any good clothing for winter as the ones they sell there. I looked online and it seems used cars are cheap in Canada, can you really get one for only 1000 CAD ?

It's possible, but in Manitoba every vehicle has to get a safety inspection when it changes owners. Some people will sell a used vehicle with inspection papers, but for $1000 they probably will not.

So I'd you buy a car for $1000, you then have to get it inspected before you can register it, after it is inspected you have get all the repairs the inspection requires. I think when we moved to Manitoba, we had to do $1500 in repairs on our vehicle.

darrel

@flaxking said in Just a regular day:

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@darrel said in Just a regular day:

Yep, just a regular day.

How is things for you ? i think i might also move in couple of months to Manitoba as well. What advice can you give me ? I will stay a year or so.

How is transportation there ?

First of all, you have to get an apartment that has nearby bus stop and has buses that pass by time to time. You don't want to stay outside for 30mins in a -40C temperature. Some bus stops has corridors, some has heaters on the bench but most of them doesn't have. I'm lucky that I can see the upcoming bus from my apartment so I wait inside the building and I only ride 1 bus going to work. I suggest to get a car immediately once you get here.

Another thing is, invest on clothing! That's very important. It will benefit you in the long run.

Thanks,
I dont think we can get any good clothing for winter as the ones they sell there. I looked online and it seems used cars are cheap in Canada, can you really get one for only 1000 CAD ?

It's possible, but in Manitoba every vehicle has to get a safety inspection when it changes owners. Some people will sell a used vehicle with inspection papers, but for $1000 they probably will not.

So I'd you buy a car for $1000, you then have to get it inspected before you can register it, after it is inspected you have get all the repairs the inspection requires. I think when we moved to Manitoba, we had to do $1500 in repairs on our vehicle.

Yep pretty much accurate.

manxam

Pretty much every province has a requirement that cars need to be certified/"safetied" as well as emissions tested. Except, at this time, Alberta -- though they're trying to change that.

flaxking

@manxam said in Just a regular day:

Pretty much every province has a requirement that cars need to be certified/"safetied" as well as emissions tested. Except, at this time, Alberta -- though they're trying to change that.

It's a question of when it has to be safetied. For example, in Saskatchewan, if you are buying a vehicle in Saskatchewan from someone who currently has that vehicle registered, it does not need to be safetied for you to register it. A vehicle can go it's whole life in Saskatchewan, changing hands, without needing another safety. However, if the registration lapses, or if the vehicle is coming from out of province, then it needs to be safetied.