Denny Crane…
Ridin a scooter in the rain ain’t helping. I want a truck.
Could be worse:
Yeah but… Fort Mcmurray doesn’t get cold, does it?
I lived a summer in Fort Mac… very short… and the horseflies and mosquitoes there are huge and swoop down and attack… never again would I live there. Stayed indoors a lot …
Could be better:
{imagine inserted pictures of sunshine and blue sky}
Good money?
it was in the 80"s when I was there… I was a bar waitress… yes … very good money… it was in the boom times… things have changed now… well not the horseflies… that’s still the same…
I’ve got a sister in Calgary so I’ll go there first. Get my H2S and first aid then head to Red Deer and Nisku to find drilling companies.
Looks like the northern gateway pipeline is going. Alberta will be boomin!
Other than Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, maybe Calgary I wouldn’t want to live anywhere in Canada year round. Fort Mac is a good place to earn some money if you cant do it anywhere else but as far as a place to live I cant imagine it has much of anything to offer. after such a long time teaching in Taiwan you’ll be lucky to find a decent job there. Hope it works out though, ive seen Taiwan kindy teacher to huge success before one or two times before.
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I thought horseflies in Belgium were a pest …
Responses to dumb posts were sent from my Nexus 7, I hate Apple BTW, with Tapatalk 8
Yeah, I’ll be an old rookie. My fear is that if I don’t go soon I may never leave. Taiwan’s been good to me for a long time but I can’t do this forever.
I can sort of relate to the OP (sort of because I’d only spent 2 months in Taiwan). I wanted to leave so badly, I packed my bags 5 days in advance and if it weren’t for work, I probably would have spend those 5 days sitting on the said suitcase and rocking back and forth in anticipation. For the first time in over a decade I was actually happy to go back to Moscow. Usually, it’s a real chore coming here, even for a little bit.
Fort Mac is an oil sands town. Never been there but it is still booming. I think the GDP per capita up there approaches $170,000 a year. Even McJobs up there pay up to 20 dollars an hour. That being said, it is very cold in winter, there is not a lot to do (outside of outdoor activities) so people spend a lot on vices/toys (drinking, 4X4s etc.), and it is remote (although well connected through air). Lots of workers from other parts of Canada, especially from the maritimes.
This is a big part of it. As long as I don’t make a fool of myself in a boom town I oughta make it. Hell, I moved across the world once and it worked out okay.
I figured out that I’m just permanently restless. I’m ‘back home’ for loonanooyear and I’ve spent the last week wanting to stab myself in the forehead with a fork and counting down the days til I can go back to China. I’m supposed to be ‘relaxing’ and ‘enjoying being with family’. My company bought my ticket. I’m lucky. I don’t feel it: I just feel tired, angry and bored.
It’s getting closer. Gonna need to start selling stuff soon. Anyone need a houseful of furniture?