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The Price Of Doing Business
8127972 writes: "It seems that a ton of high tech companies are leaving cities (like San Fran) with high costs of doing business for cheaper cities (Washington DC is mentioned due to new government spending) or even cities in Canada. Sounds like American high tech workers are going to have to learn to say the word "eh?" a lot."
I hear there is some cheap real estate in Kabul...
We Canadian's could end all our sentences with "Dontcha know!".
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As a tech worker who has (recently) endured lack of jobs in this sector, I plead to come here. The cost of living is very low, we have Purdue, IU, and Rose-Hulman, the NCSA is right down the road, the Internet2 has a main artery here, and God knows we need more tech-savvy people here. We'll even change to daylight savings time for ya...honest.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
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One thing that I find ironic is that it was only a few years ago that Nortel was threatening to leave Canada because of its taxation rates which hurt corporations trying to compete against those in the USA.
Baltimore Big Business Quotes:
"When we gonna get us some of that them there health care Hon ?"
"If we could switch to Solar Panels, we would use a lots less Earl (oil)."
"Whys that there stadium say PSI-NET? Whoz that Hon ?"
"Yea, this heres the new business capitals, we're right between Warshington and Napolis."
[non baltimore residents need not laugh]
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
> The east says "eh", the west sounds just like Seattle.
Okay, then, let's get this straight:
East: "Sure, whatever, eh?"
West: "Sure, whatever, Seattle?"
I think I like it the Eastern way better, eh?
Virg
And on the bright side you can talk to most of them as they wait in line at the unemployment office.
You know Canada is screwed when people are moving to California to find lower taxes!
an abundance of gorgeous people are our best kept secret
Ah, I see you don't live in New Brunswick.
I swear, all I'm looking for is a woman with less facial hair than me and no kids. Are my standards just too high?
Checking the weather in balmy Bowman, ND, I find a temperature of 8 degrees F, with a wind chill of -4 degrees F.
You can call me a wimp if you want, but I don't really like freezing my ass off, even if office space goes for $1/sq ft and I get a free DS3 to my house.
It's Linux, damnit! Pay no attention to renaming attempts by self-aggrandizing blowhards.
I'd like to see you say "what's that aboot?" to any Canadian. They'll promptly answer.. no, you fucking retard.. it's a goddamn shoe.
Don't let go of that attitude and make sure to tell all your friends about how bad it was in ND.
Make sure you mention the horrible things like wide open plains, warm summers, clean air, stable jobs, low crime rate, friendly people and low cost of living. Qwest provides service including DSL for the Fargo area. If you don't like DSL, go with a cable modem because yes we have those too. Fargo also has wireless access from Monet. Dickinson and the surrounding towns have Consolidated Communications which provides DSL and cable modems as well. I'm not exactly sure where you were, but the things you're describing are a complete opposite of what I've experienced.
Now after saying that... Stay out cause we don't want no strangers round these parts! Ma fetch me mah shotgun!
Naaah, Californians will just insist on commuting from their SF homes to Canada. They love those long morning drives.
Yeah, but you know California's even more screwed when they all move back home for the same reason!
Pollution!? Shee-yit! You must be one o'those damn Yankee furriners I hear tell about!
That there pollution is just ev-oh-loo-shun in action! It only kills off the weak alveoli (I watch the Discovery channel -- I know lots o'them big words)! Down here in God's Country we don't hold to pampering the cells in our bodies! Only the strong survive! The weak die in the summer! Remember the Alamo! Go and buy some more guns! Yee-hah!
(To hopefully deterr some flames: I am a native Dallasite who owns lots of guns. This post is sarcastic).
Whoever created that calculator clearly never tried to buy a house in Menlo Park.
Have you left yet? I would love it if more ungrateful people like you packed their bags and left. You're free to take the next flight out of here so chao!