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@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@flaxking said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
What makes the biggest difference to our bottom line is having to have two vehicles. In the city we just had one.
Why two? Here it's one outside the cities and zero inside, normally. What's the second one for?
While it would be likely possible to do a single vehicle between my wife and I - it would DRASTICALLY cramp our lifestyles waiting on the other to be done with work, etc.
And there are simply days/times when that simple wouldn't work. Both of our jobs require us to travel between different campus, sometimes without notice.
Oh, and we live in a city - but the idea of going to zero is unthinkable! sure we could uber everywhere, but the delay in getting a vehicle out to my house would be a huge PITA and time waster. Sure I could schedule one for the daily commute to work and back.. but lunches are nearly random for me (And I almost always go out for lunch - need the break away from this place), then the need to drive to another location on a moments notice - again waiting on an uber would be - extremely - frowned upon by my office, to say the least.
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@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@notverypunny said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@flaxking said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@flaxking said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
What makes the biggest difference to our bottom line is having to have two vehicles. In the city we just had one.
Why two? Here it's one outside the cities and zero inside, normally. What's the second one for?
We don't live in the towns where we work.
I get that, but that would only make me require one, not two.
One for self, one for SO?
Oh okay, talking about other family members.
Why would you assume he was talking about 2 cars for himself? Sure there are people who have two vehicles for a single person - say a car and a truck, or a car and a motorcycle, or a car and a sport(y) car that they only drive for fun, etc... But almost no one talks about those things in context like this.
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@Dashrender said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
While it would be likely possible to do a single vehicle between my wife and I - it would DRASTICALLY cramp our lifestyles waiting on the other to be done with work, etc.
I'm convinced that with the way that we work and where we live (Dallas), that with Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, car rentals, etc. that we could drop to zero cars and be around break even now on cost and effort. Would take a bit to adjust to how to do things, but pretty doable I think.
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@Dashrender said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@flaxking said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
What makes the biggest difference to our bottom line is having to have two vehicles. In the city we just had one.
Why two? Here it's one outside the cities and zero inside, normally. What's the second one for?
While it would be likely possible to do a single vehicle between my wife and I - it would DRASTICALLY cramp our lifestyles waiting on the other to be done with work, etc.
And there are simply days/times when that simple wouldn't work. Both of our jobs require us to travel between different campus, sometimes without notice.
Oh, and we live in a city - but the idea of going to zero is unthinkable! sure we could uber everywhere, but the delay in getting a vehicle out to my house would be a huge PITA and time waster. Sure I could schedule one for the daily commute to work and back.. but lunches are nearly random for me (And I almost always go out for lunch - need the break away from this place), then the need to drive to another location on a moments notice - again waiting on an uber would be - extremely - frowned upon by my office, to say the least.
Why are you limited to only Uber with no consideration for public transit such as bus and train?
Everything we need is either 5-15 minute walk or bike ride away. We use the bus as well. Hell, I use the bus to save a 10 minute walk to the train station in the mornings or if it's raining. Train for anything longer distance. We'd rent a car for anything outside of this.
Grocery shopping is more frequent, but you get used to it.
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@travisdh1 said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@manxam said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@scottalanmiller : It's also in a town of 3300 people and 3 hours away from a major city so I'd assume cost-of-living will be relatively low.
I'd assume the opposite. Cost of every day things will probably be more. At least that's how it tended to work in the US when I was driving truck. Having to ship everything that far is going to cost.
Gas is $116.9/L in Virden.
Gas is $98.9/L in the Edmonton region where I work.Gas is generally cheaper in Alberta since we produce the stuff so less distance to the pump.
I pulled a flyer from Virden's Co-Op and from St. Albert's SuperStore and the prices are not that far off. About $1/Lb for various meats. Some things are actually less expensive in Virden versus here which may speak more to higher demand in the city.
Homes look to be less and I suspect the municipal taxes would be lower too.
Not much of a commute would be my suspicion, so costs travel wise would be low.
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@Obsolesce said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@Dashrender said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@flaxking said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
What makes the biggest difference to our bottom line is having to have two vehicles. In the city we just had one.
Why two? Here it's one outside the cities and zero inside, normally. What's the second one for?
While it would be likely possible to do a single vehicle between my wife and I - it would DRASTICALLY cramp our lifestyles waiting on the other to be done with work, etc.
And there are simply days/times when that simple wouldn't work. Both of our jobs require us to travel between different campus, sometimes without notice.
Oh, and we live in a city - but the idea of going to zero is unthinkable! sure we could uber everywhere, but the delay in getting a vehicle out to my house would be a huge PITA and time waster. Sure I could schedule one for the daily commute to work and back.. but lunches are nearly random for me (And I almost always go out for lunch - need the break away from this place), then the need to drive to another location on a moments notice - again waiting on an uber would be - extremely - frowned upon by my office, to say the least.
Why are you limited to only Uber with no consideration for public transit such as bus and train?
The nearest bus stop is 5+ miles away from my home. The only train in Omaha is AmTrack (well, and cargo trains), we aren't Chicago size... so no commuter trains here. Hell Kansas City doesn't even have trains.
Omaha = 1 million
KC = 2 million
Chicago = 9+ millionI suppose I could ride my bike to the bus stop, then take the bus to something close to work, but the winters here would make that pretty awful to say the least, and likely rather dangerous. Heck, no bike lanes here would likely make the bicycle dangerous here any time.
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@Obsolesce said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
Why are you limited to only Uber with no consideration for public transit such as bus and train?
Very little of the US has train. A lot more has bus, but even that is pretty hard.
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@Obsolesce said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
Everything we need is either 5-15 minute walk or bike ride away. We use the bus as well. Hell, I use the bus to save a 10 minute walk to the train station in the mornings or if it's raining. Train for anything longer distance. We'd rent a car for anything outside of this.
sure, if your area has public transportation options like that - absolutely, go for it - we simply don't here. The only midwest city that I know of that does is Chicago.
I suppose Dallas could have this, or Houston - but where I used to take the bus from the airport to convention center in Austin, they killed the bus route now making it require at least two buses to get there - no thanks, uber, lyft, etc for me...
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@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@Obsolesce said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
Why are you limited to only Uber with no consideration for public transit such as bus and train?
Very little of the US has train. A lot more has bus, but even that is pretty hard.
In Omaha, downtown goes from 1st street west... buses stop around 90th. If you live west of 90th, you're basically out of luck with buses.
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@Obsolesce said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
Grocery shopping is more frequent, but you get used to it.
The nearest grocery is 4 miles away, and the path is extremely hilly. There is a Casey's (they are a gas station that's apparently now famous for pizza) that is about 1 mile from my house. They do have a few corner store type items, like eggs, milk, bread.. all inflated of course.
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@PhlipElder said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@travisdh1 said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@manxam said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@scottalanmiller : It's also in a town of 3300 people and 3 hours away from a major city so I'd assume cost-of-living will be relatively low.
I'd assume the opposite. Cost of every day things will probably be more. At least that's how it tended to work in the US when I was driving truck. Having to ship everything that far is going to cost.
Gas is $116.9/L in Virden.
Gas is $98.9/L in the Edmonton region where I work.Gas is generally cheaper in Alberta since we produce the stuff so less distance to the pump.
I pulled a flyer from Virden's Co-Op and from St. Albert's SuperStore and the prices are not that far off. About $1/Lb for various meats. Some things are actually less expensive in Virden versus here which may speak more to higher demand in the city.
Homes look to be less and I suspect the municipal taxes would be lower too.
Not much of a commute would be my suspicion, so costs travel wise would be low.
Housing costs seem to be the most dramatic difference that I've seen. My house on either coast in anything but the shittiest of neighborhoods would easily run $750-3 mil... but here, it's only $200K. You see tiny little 800 sqft places going for 1.3 million on TV in those fixer upper shows... it's nutz!
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@scottalanmiller said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
@Obsolesce said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
Why are you limited to only Uber with no consideration for public transit such as bus and train?
Very little of the US has train. A lot more has bus, but even that is pretty hard.
OH, he said city so I just assumed it would be like San Diego or Sweden.
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@Dashrender said in VP of Operations and Technology - Canada only:
The nearest grocery is 4 miles away, and the path is extremely hilly.
Ya, that's less than ideal lol
