So sick of BC i wanna puke...........

taxslave

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That is old school. These days its "high tech redneck" at an average income of a $100K a year for 4 months work.

That has got to drive the pretty boys that work for minimum wage +tips in the city crazy.
Those that can do, those that can't are destined to sit on the sidelines.

Are you jealous? A combine is like a space shuttle compared to your boss's lawn mower you operate for a living.

When did cannuck graduate from sorting bottles at the recycling depot to being permitted near rotating machinery?
 

Curious Cdn

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It's the best province in Canada. :) :)

True but remember that you don't live on the Left Coast where all of the nuts piled up. The BC Interior is really like another province. It's like in Ontario where Thunder Bay and the GTA have utterly different cultures.
 

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I cannot believe that flossy has not taken the time to explain to us how this move will definitively attack so called climate change, er i mean global warming.
 

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True but remember that you don't live on the Left Coast where all of the nuts piled up. The BC Interior is really like another province. It's like in Ontario where Thunder Bay and the GTA have utterly different cultures.

Actually, I spent over half my life on Vancouver Island which wasn't too bad. I spent several years in the Interior when I was in my 20s and then moved back up here in 1999 as I was retired and my wife's bursitis was getting too unbearable. I think she's had two brief attacks in 17 years.
 

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Actually, I spent over half my life on Vancouver Island which wasn't too bad. I spent several years in the Interior when I was in my 20s and then moved back up here in 1999 as I was retired and my wife's bursitis was getting too unbearable. I think she's had two brief attacks in 17 years.

I think that the area that you live in is pretty damned close to Shangri-La.
 

Curious Cdn

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There's a lot to like about it.

I would go back there to live in a second if I didn't have a growing family to feed and school.

Back about twenty five years ago, a group of us looked into starting up an assembly operation to make mall storefront doors and other similar products. The Interior of BC around you is central to Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, maybe even Seattle Tacoma. All of the communications, transportation criss-cross through Kamloops and that was where we we looking, approximately. There is no shortage of labour availble. You export your children. It was uncertain if the market size was big enough or stable enough to sustain it through thick and thin. Years later and a few economic cycles down the road, I'm still not sure. Operations like that carry relatively expensive inventories and they require frequent inventory turns. They are not friendly to too much boom and bust which is the hallmark of resource based economies. The bank would always be calling.
 

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Actually, I spent over half my life on Vancouver Island which wasn't too bad. I spent several years in the Interior when I was in my 20s and then moved back up here in 1999 as I was retired and my wife's bursitis was getting too unbearable. I think she's had two brief attacks in 17 years.

I can't believe you got a thumbs down for this post! that's hilarious!!


I think that the area that you live in is pretty damned close to Shangri-La.

well, you can live much closer to Shangri-La then JLM does. In fact, I do. It's a ugly big building that I'd heard has some major settlement cracks and the like. But it does tower over the rest of the city...for the time being.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La
 

petros

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I grew up 15 minutes south of JLM. I love the OK, the valley is okay but up on the plateau sits one of BCs best kept secrets. The best trout fishing this side of Diefenbaker Lake.
 

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Here's what I'd do. Let's rent a Death Star and lay waste to BC using really dirty, alien wpns. Maybe have the DS fire something into the Strait near Denman & Hornby Isles. Then stare into their eyes just seconds before they realise that there will be no salvation. No changes to any emvironmental laws. And the big one: The pollution created by their undoing will mix with the crud from Japan and wipe out the whales.
 

Curious Cdn

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Rainbow, German Brown, Brook, cutthroat or toilet trout ?

In Lake Diefenbaker? They're shaky-jowly trout.

If you consider the source for 10 seconds it's not hard to believe! :) :)



It wasn't Walter. Walter is a "Rhodes Scholar" in comparison! :) (You owe me Walter) :)

Careful .... A cousin of mine is actually a Rhodes Scholar ... lives in BC, even. Don't insult the man like that, please.
 

taxslave

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True but remember that you don't live on the Left Coast where all of the nuts piled up. The BC Interior is really like another province. It's like in Ontario where Thunder Bay and the GTA have utterly different cultures.

You mean there is BC past Hope?

Here's what I'd do. Let's rent a Death Star and lay waste to BC using really dirty, alien wpns. Maybe have the DS fire something into the Strait near Denman & Hornby Isles. Then stare into their eyes just seconds before they realise that there will be no salvation. No changes to any emvironmental laws. And the big one: The pollution created by their undoing will mix with the crud from Japan and wipe out the whales.

Already been done. The whole province got infested by worthless NOPES and NIMBYs that don't want any economic activity but want our logging roads for access to "pristine" wilderness.No tankers but they haven't figured out how to fuel for their gas guzzling SUVs and boats to where they want to play.And free ferries 24/7 to every creek on the coast.

In Lake Diefenbaker? They're shaky-jowly trout.



Careful .... A cousin of mine is actually a Rhodes Scholar ... lives in BC, even. Don't insult the man like that, please.

Nothing wron with insulting walmart