Colorado, Boulder
Pro's - Cold Weather, MM and DM, Mountains, new silicon valley, great music and sports scene, ranks really good across the board for happyness, social services, economy, etc.. Rents not high (Compared to FL on the coast) Snow, landscapes, photography, greenhouse gardening.

Con's - Away from family, Don't know too many peeps there.

 

Colorado, Boulder
Pro's - Cold Weather, MM and DM, Mountains, new silicon valley, great music and sports scene, ranks really good across the board for happyness, social services, economy, etc.. Rents not high (Compared to FL on the coast) Snow, landscapes, photography, greenhouse gardening.

Con's - Away from family, Don't know too many peeps there.

CO. is one of my possible exceptions... it's supposed to be a really good place to live!

 

Good one!

Soon after WWII, things were booming. But now we know that it was not sustainable.

Well if I can't have 1950, then I choose Alberta.

 

It's Michigan for me since 1965

 

Where in Michican?

 

@ Max, I agree that you have a mobile community that pays little taxes

and benefits from every thing they touch. There are cities that cater to

mobile living,it takes a passport. Don't want to get political,will have to pm you.

 

We have a lot of members that do curcuit boards one at a time.

So I think there are markets for anything still,you have to find them.

Every curcuit board with a dream of that magic moment when you

do something new, that hasn't been done before. Why else do you

see all the boards posted in albums. You see excellent workmanship

for a reason,there are a lot of goals out there. The first you-tube was a

man in front of elephants,history and history....thinking ..a new phrase.

 

Where would I go,some where that I was wanted, or some place to do my

sports or research. There is a way to do this now, I can provide green credits

to companies that will need them now. There are a lot of companies concerned

how they will grow or survive without green credits ,the credits have different

names,but the same bottom line.

 

They used to give out S&H Green stamps when I was a kid. Is that what your talking about Loosie?

 

@ Max, I agree that you have a mobile community that pays little taxes

and benefits from every thing they touch. There are cities that cater to

mobile living,it takes a passport. Don't want to get political,will have to pm you.

I know I used to live in Memphis and what the poorer suburbs would do to lure people into the hood was offer no property taxes and other perks. It was Memphis so it was a good program and it worked great. But these kinds of programs should be for neighborhood trying to gain status to normal, not have million dollar houses. As a matter of fact Brother the corp. was about 5 miles aways. It was huge. Like 5-10 city blocks in 1 building. On Brother Rd.
Put this in google maps and you can see Brother. Its pretty amazing. Look at all the trailers. 35.215893,-89.802645 also for the wheres waldo guys look around and Brims Snack Foods is less then a mile away. And for the other people search out FedEx's airport.

 

The Caribbean, while having many benefits, has some major downsides. Literacy, illegitimate births, crime, socialism to name a few.
Recently read an article about Jersey, need a bit of money, a very large bit. But it seems to be the place. Meanwhile, until I win the lottery, I'll stay in P.R. east coast 450 ft up, overlooking Roosie Roads airport, Vieques, Culebra and Crown Mountain on St Thomas on a clear day.

 

Being from FL I know lots of people who have moved to S America and Carribean. Its usually mixed results. Seems the locals don't care as long as your spending money, but if you try to retire there and live meagerly you start to run into problems with the locals.

 

Its all about money,the world knows cash very well, and taking your property.

No place like home,unless you can afford your own Island and a credit card machine.

 

I would move to 1950.

Interesting concept, not necessarily a where, but a when.

In that vein, I'd have to say the 1970s, after the oil crisis, where economies were doing well, new technologies were emerging, and some of the coolest cars were being built or had recently been built, meaning muscle cars and the timeless Datsun 240Z. Where in that time would be a tough decision, probably stay in Canada, but the US had many opportunities at that time too.

If the decsion was for today, no question, stay right here in Canada, probably right here in southern Ontario. I like the idea of Calgary Alberta, since I do have some family I rarely see out there, and not far from Banff, Tar sands are North, and good for work, in many different technological aspects, and seems to be an interesting place to live. It's just that the winters are so damn cold. When I went out there about 5 years ago, to visit family and take a drive down to Washington to buy a car (My 240Z ), it was January, and around -35 in the day, unless a Chinook came along...

Being outside in the hot springs in Banff at night was an interesting experience though.

The only other place I would go, but I don't think I'd consider living there (again) is Australia. I visited there, with plans to move there about 25 years ago, and it was a beautiful place, but I missed Canada too much, and moved back. I do plan to visit there again someday though.

 

Some members have traveled thru a lot of decades ,so they have a opinion

on of a lot years.There have been thru many changes since the fifties. Most

of the changes have been because climate events. The floods,hurricanes,

wars are at the top of the list. Refugees from alot of countries all over the

world. As population grew,so did crop harvestors that changed landscape.

So again follow the money,now its follow the machine and the robot that

operates it.

 

Call a spade a spade. Canada has big tar sands projects on the go.
You already know my opinion about burning fossil fuel so I will leave it at that.

But we don't burn it, other than our relatively small population's consumption. We sell it to the US, for their discretional use. They choose to burn much of it. That may change however, as we develop the resource, I'm confident that we'll pipe into southern Ontario, where they'll develop a large electrical industry, with the north eastern US as thier customers.

I'm not a fan of tearing up large tracts of nature, but spills on solid ground make way more sense than spills in the ocean. There is the question of water consumption and underground pollutants, and the US will deal with that when the start frac'ing thier shale on large scale.

Providing the resource in no way implies it's responsible use.

This month in Alberta they rekindled a $5.6billion upgrader, scheduled to start spring of 13' as well as an electrical corridor worth $1.6billion. Here is one but many sites that point to the job situation we have here;
http://www.wowjobs.ca/BrowseResults.aspx?q=Millwright&s=r&l=AB , and it's only going to get worse.

 

I was under the idea that the tar sands oil and the Keystone pipe line where not for use in the US, but to be sold to other/foreign countries. The Keystone would disrupt a lot of natural area.

 

I was under the idea that the tar sands oil and the Keystone pipe line where not for use in the US, but to be sold to other/foreign countries. The Keystone would disrupt a lot of natural area.

The keystone would move lightly refined bitumen south to Nebraska. From there it would likely be delivered to various US locations for further processing. We are debating the 'Northern Gateway' line that will deliver products to Kitimat, one of our sea ports. China would likely be the largest customer of that flow.

To add to the original thread, my guess is that if global warming is real and continues on a longer term basis, we will possibly see a more tempermate climate here in Canada, which would extend our agricultural growing season. Compound that with a potentially higher rate of ffailure with US crops due to droughts. This last seasons failure of the corn crop has led to a winfall for the Canadian farmers. Water is the other commodity that will become a future concern, and I have no doubt that energy will be required to ensure ample supplies of fresh water.

When I went out there about 5 years ago, to visit family and take a drive down to Washington to buy a car (My 240Z ), it was January, and around -35 in the day, unless a Chinook came along...

I've seen it go from -20 to +5 within an hour during a Chinook. The only challange with Calgary right now is the climbing cost of housing, if you don't count the traffic mayhem from too quick of development. I just recieved my annual property tax assessment and it has gone down again for the 4th straight year. If the global economy tanks, things will moderate, but if things start improving, we're in for a real challange, both in housing and the labour market.

But wait, just on the news, Brookfield announces permits applied to add 2.8 million sqft office space in two towers. 1300 construction jobs over 3 years.

This is nuts.

 

It doesn't matter who burns fossil fuel, Canada, USA or China. The best place for fossil fuel is to leave it in the ground.

Not to worry, when global warming takes hold, Canada will become the USA 51st state.

 

One of the small middle countries already has a complete city for 40,000

people ready to go.They want to sell the model to other countries,once you get near

the city you park your car and get on a unmanned electric vehicle that to an area

that has narrow streets that provide shade to help a wind tunnel blow cool air

thru the city. All the roofs have sun panels to make electric,they also have a

power company that uses panels to reflect the sun to mirrows that super heat

the water for a turbine that make more power. I will try to google this towns

name.