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Re: Can payments persuade Canadian residents to move away from dying villages?

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Post by nibs » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 3:52 PM UTC

trapperkeeper79 wrote: post #90

nibs wrote: post #77

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Finance and law associates here make $80-100k including incentives. SW devs $60-100k. $300k+ CAD would be for partners, top sales people and consulting/law rainmakers.

Well .. then I'm not sure how anyone affords a 2.5 million dollar detached home pretty much from Yonge and Finch to Yonge and Bloor. I mention the subway lines cause working people typically have to get to work :-p

Because they bought it when it was worth $700k with two working partners making the income I mention about. Toronto Life and Globe and Mail both frequently interview people about their personal financial situation. With a few high earning exceptions, mostly it is because they bought 10 years ago and are drowning in debt and/or sold their existing property. Very few people, even well-educated, dual-earning high-self-discipline couples, are really "entering" the market for houses. Depending on earning power my friends continue to live at home through 20s (low), rent an apartment or condo (mid) or buy a condo (high). That is about where it falls for people in their 20s here, similar I imagine to other world centers.

Re: Can payments persuade Canadian residents to move away from dying villages?

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Post by NotSammyHagar » Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 11:02 PM UTC

tjl wrote: post #160

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #157

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CS PhD in Engineer? If interested in Seattle, there are new hires for phds at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook. Lots of other companies would hire you, but those places hire lots of new phds. Mine was a top 30 us, so basically invisible, and I had lots of companies trying to hire me.

Not in CS, it was in Systems Design Engineering. My Ph.D. was more mechanical than anything. My Master's had a big CS component as I was affiliated with the computer graphics lab (my Master's co-supervisor was part of the lab until he retired to look after his wife). I did most of the numerical CS courses and all the CS computer graphics courses. There's not much call for my particular skill set, unfortunately. I int…

There are lots of non-cs majors programming these days. I sometimes meet people who are sharp but lacking in some fundamentals. If you are having trouble getting a job, I encourage you to make the investment to get a masters in CS. You already have most of the work and I'm sure that sounds terrible, but that would catapult you into being incredibly employable, instead of being irritated at near misses. I know a lot of EE who ended up as devs, but that's a hard thing to do as a start.

Re: Can payments persuade Canadian residents to move away from dying villages?

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Post by NotSammyHagar » Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 11:04 PM UTC

AdrianB1 wrote: post #182

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #150

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Ferry service

Lol, since when transportation is a social service? Is there any common sense left in Canada or socialism ate it all? What is NOT a social service in Canada, providing drugs and booze for the wealthy?

Building a road to my town, even if few people live there is a standard thing that taxes pay for. I'm pretty sure there is not enough traffic for regular ferry service there, yet the govt keeps running it. Maybe they reduce it in the winter, but its there. That island would probably hardly have anyone there if there wasn't regular ferry service.

Re: Can payments persuade Canadian residents to move away from dying villages?

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Post by NotSammyHagar » Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 11:08 PM UTC

dllthomas wrote: post #189

sandworm101 wrote: post #179

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State constitutions regulate the relationship between the state and its people. So they do not have rights per se in that relationship. But the term "state's rights" refers to the relationship between the states and the federal government. In that case states really do have certain rights against the fed much as individual persons have rights under the US constitution. This is most clear in case where the state sues…

Alternatively, the rights of the people of a state to choose how they are governed (along certain dimensions) without regard to the federal government.

My point (which I know you weren't directly replying to), is that there are suits and supreme court decisions that change what those rights are from time to time. At a certain time all the southern states would have said they had a right to control who could get married (like blocking whites and blacks), but was overturned in that famous case (Loving v some state I think). Similarly, the const. allows fed control of interstate commerce, yet there were endless lawsuits about what this applies to until the supremes decided it.

Then states all thought they could control what marriage meant (again, see above :-)), until they were again overruled by the supremes. I know there are rules and precedents, but I find it murky and mostly a political football (half the country is for states rights to trump the things they like and against states rights for things they don't like).

Re: Can payments persuade Canadian residents to move away from dying villages?

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Post by tjl » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 7:37 AM UTC

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #192

tjl wrote: post #160

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Not in CS, it was in Systems Design Engineering. My Ph.D. was more mechanical than anything. My Master's had a big CS component as I was affiliated with the computer graphics lab (my Master's co-supervisor was part of the lab until he retired to look after his wife). I did most of the numerical CS courses and all the CS computer graphics courses. There's not much call for my particular skill set, unfortunately. I int…

There are lots of non-cs majors programming these days. I sometimes meet people who are sharp but lacking in some fundamentals. If you are having trouble getting a job, I encourage you to make the investment to get a masters in CS. You already have most of the work and I'm sure that sounds terrible, but that would catapult you into being incredibly employable, instead of being irritated at near misses. I know a lot o…

I was co-supervised by a professor in CS for my Master's degree and during my Ph.D. I did most of the CS numerical programming courses (and I did most of the computer graphics courses during my Master's). There won't be many CS courses for a Master's degree that I'd be interested in. Plus, I'd be forced to take a number of undergrad CS courses just to meet their requirements.

A big problem I have now is that I'm overqualified for a lot of jobs. Getting another grad degree probably won't help. To be honest, if I was to get a CS degree, I'd probably go straight for the Ph.D. instead. There's some things in computer graphics I'd love to explore. Unfortunately, the prof I'd want to supervise me left and is now working at Intel last I checked.