Amen, no offence intended to people who love or are from the maritimes, but I can't stand living here. Pay the most taxes with the least to show for it.
As for living in the Valley:
- No PLD at all.
- Car maintenance is increased due to the horrendous road conditions, it is impossible to avoid the potholes.
- My NS Power bill for a two month period, just after moving here 5 years ago, was over $1200.
- It is damn near impossible to find anyone to do any work or service for you that can do a professional job and will show up on time or even at all.
- I hope you like Pizza, because that is all you get for restaurant choices. Although there are one or two decent other spots around, you get tired of picking between pasta jax and sushi fang every time without having to drive 40 min to Wolfville.
I am a BC guy though, so I guess I am a little biased, but I did live in Ottawa for a while and that is a fantastic place to live. I was actually there during the PLD transition where Ottawa was supposed to be the baseline at 0$ and they were supposed to deny PLD to people posted in and decrease everyone else by a 1/3 each year, over the next 3-4 years. That apparently changed though, they did deny new people posted in, but they didn't decrease anyone else's that was already there. So I went on making a couple hundred extra a month in PLD, while the new guy sitting next to me, doing the exact same job, got nothing. That didn't make sense to me.
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