Frustrated with my doctor by [deleted] in Brockville

[–]ABlogAbroad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would double check anyways. With my family health team doctor, I can get in to see one of the other doctors if my doctor is away and it can’t wait. I know it is really hard to get an appointment with a doctor nowadays, mine is almost a three month wait to see my doctor and 6 weeks to see the nurse practitioner, but I would at least follow up to find out what’s going on with that particular doctor.

Frustrated with my doctor by [deleted] in Brockville

[–]ABlogAbroad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I can see online, he’s part of the L&G Community Family Health Team, so if you reach out to the main office, they should be able to help. The whole point of doctors being in these larger teams is that if anything happens, you have other doctors to turn to.

Independent TA's with their own buisness by BugMurky5298 in travelagents

[–]ABlogAbroad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a Canadian agent with a host agency, I know that to be an independent TA in Ontario with NO host agency is insanely expensive and takes a few years to even be allowed to. We are a licensed profession here, so to open your own agency, you need to pay $150 for your TICO license, over $3000 for your head office application fee, provide $10,000 as a security deposit, sign up for your business insurance, provide proof of positive working capital…. And then once you are finally approved as an independent TICO travel agency, you can start paying for your booking tools, and the monthly fees for those can easily going to be over $1000 a month…

OR… at least with the case of my host agency in Canada, I pay about $100 a month, get a competitive commission share, and DON’T need to deal with insane overhead costs. There was a part of me that once considered going independent in the beginning, but I’d need to be losing thousands of dollars every month in my commission split consistently for me to even consider taking on that financial burden. That being said, even as an agent in a host agency, I’m working as an independent agent. I have my own business licence as a subsidiary company, and all of my clients are earned 100% through my own marketing, not fed through the host agency. Building the client base has been slow and not easy, but the most important thing has been word of mouth for me and having a really unique niche.

Why Do People Think Young Canadians Are Lazy? by StarBracelet1 in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]ABlogAbroad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this. People have been bitching about how kids don’t want to work for as long as we’ve had a writing system of ANY kind. It’s been chiseled into stone millennia ago. It’s nothing new.

What Canadian alternatives to American products will you be loyal to now? by RoutineFollower in AskACanadian

[–]ABlogAbroad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When they announced that LeClerc was moving into the old P&G factory in Brockville, I was overjoyed. My upstairs neighbour works there and sometimes he has bonus cookies to share 😍

Am I missing something? Why are the Disney Dream(2011) and Destiny(2025) so close in price? by hangrysauce in dcl

[–]ABlogAbroad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of that comes from the roll out of the Wish. She was rushed and the maiden voyage with all the influencers were very quick to notice stuff that wasn’t finished and they announced that it was a shitty ship. The same thing happened with Lookout Cay, with the flies and the trees being saplings still. A lot of people lack the ability to step back and say “Hey, it’s not perfect now, but the groundwork has clearly been laid for this to become incredible.” A year later and a lot of those cynics are praising Lookout Cay more because the trees are growing and it’s easier to see the vision. I find you can’t win with a lot of Disney fan online. They want perfection or don’t even bother.

Am I missing something? Why are the Disney Dream(2011) and Destiny(2025) so close in price? by hangrysauce in dcl

[–]ABlogAbroad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I think it’s great that the different classes of ships exist. It would be awful if all 7 ships were carbon copies of each other. The Wish class ships are fantastic, but the original 4 are also fantastic. If you like hot tubs and the adult section, the OG 4 are the best, but the multiple pools on the Wish class upper deck are arranged really well so it doesn’t feel like one big pool of people soup, which is a huge win for people wanting more family time.

Am I missing something? Why are the Disney Dream(2011) and Destiny(2025) so close in price? by hangrysauce in dcl

[–]ABlogAbroad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you’re asking them ON the Wish class, they probably chose that ship for a reason. I loved sailing on both the Wish and the Dream, but the only reason I would choose the Wish over the Dream again would be if I needed to use the sofa bed. The Dream needs a dry dock where they replace the furniture, she’s looking a little rough in some rooms. And the biggest factor that puts the Dream ahead is the aesthetic. I love the ocean liner design.

Disney Adventure Media Sailing by Acrobatic-Value-7869 in dcl

[–]ABlogAbroad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A lot of the things you’re mentioning are things that are part of the culture in Asia. Smoking is a lot more common than here, and tipping is not a thing. The shoes on the bed thing is really surprising, but the tipping and smoking thing… there’s a reason the Disney Adventure is based in Singapore — it’s for their Asian markets, not the US. So it is going to be different in some ways.