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Subject:Re:All advices are more then helpful...
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Author: Hal
Date: 1/5/2010 08:57
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1...the highest crime rates in Canada for Criminal Code offenses are in the North West Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon Territories. The province with the highest crime rate for Criminal Code offenses is Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and BC are pretty much tied in the second-highest spot.
2...Prince George has a pulp mill. While the pulp industry is presently dead, dead, dead, when it’s running, it doesn’t add to the quality of the air, but it sure adds high-paying jobs.
3...Rents in Burnaby for good accomodation are comparable to Vancouver. You can find lower rental rates in Vancouver, but you get what you pay for. If the average is $1,500 and you see something for $1,000, then there will be a reason why it’s discounted.
4...Crime follows cheap rent. The meaner streets of Vancouver generally have much lower rents and more crime (most criminals have low incomes, so they need to economize, too, but they also prey on their neighbours). Crime rates in the suburbs with low rents are usually higher, with grow ops, etc. concentrated in the spread-out, lower-rent-but-leafy burbs in the Fraser Valley.
5...Wages are what you can negotiate. However, BC has the lowest minimum wage in Canada at $8, almost 20 per cent lower than Ontario’s $9.50. Registered nurses, very much in demand right across Canada, are paid five per cent less in BC than they are in Alberta or Ontario. If you have a skill that is very much in demand, then you can likely negotiate a salary equal to Ontario’s, but that won’t make up for the higher costs in accommodation, gasoline, hydro, automobile insurance, etc.
6...There is work for English-only speaking individuals. Unfortunately, there is also massive unemployment for English-speaking, Mandarin-speaking, Cantonese-speaking and even the mute in BC. Those who speak no English are at the very bottom of the pay scale, as they are usually stuck in the service industries.
7...The crime rate is meaningless if the wages that you make can’t cover your living costs (almost forcing you into running a grow op, lol). You can research all you want to, but until you have firm job offers in hand, then all you’re doing is spinning your wheels. The gaming industry was big here, but it’s retracting. With the weakening of the US dollar, the BC film industry is much slower. Print journalism is moribund, because advertising is way, way down (the exception might be small-town newspapers). |
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All advices are more then helpful...
Re:All advices are more then helpful... 
Re:All advices are more then helpful...