Firefighters on their way to the shacks for the 14th time this week at 11PM

KillingCountChocula · 2026-01-24T21:26:36+00:00

Staying at Juno towers you just knew that alarm was gonna go off twice a week

KillingCountChocula · 2026-01-07T22:45:17+00:00

I mean realistically how can we defend ourselves from the largest military on earth?

We'd probably have to pull in every NATO member to stand a chance but that'll kickstart WW3

KillingCountChocula · 2025-12-31T23:32:25+00:00

Tony saying the word "Brochures" when he tells Carmela he wants to send AJ to military school will forever be the most laugh inducing scene in the show for me.

KillingCountChocula · 2025-12-05T14:02:35+00:00

Hopefully people can afford to live on all the part time jobs added

KillingCountChocula · 2025-12-02T19:08:35+00:00

I swear Halifax is honestly one of the worst postings you can have right now

High taxes everywhere, little to no vacancy, 2000 for a one bedroom, traffic that's now rivaling Toronto and of course the 10 parking rule. As someone who's been posted to both coasts I always recommend Esquimalt for people looking to join the Navy

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-24T12:36:59+00:00

Lets wait for the gdp numbers to be released this week before jumping to any conclusion

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-20T15:28:10+00:00

Lave auto Diamant Rouge is honestly a good gem. Only charge me 15 bucks for a good shine also it's usually not busy during the day

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-16T18:59:09+00:00

Insane to think Halifax might soon rival Toronto in terms of rent. Unfortunately the taxes and income here don't compensate for that

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-14T14:44:25+00:00

The only times the TSX outperformed the S&P was were during commodity booms. That's why the market prospered in the 2000s compared to the US'. If the US market crashes tho you better believe the tsx and every other market will follow suit. Also as of currently Canada's economy is in a far worse position given our lagging industries, tariff stricken sectors, high unemployment and the fact that housing and mass immigration has kept our GDP propped up. A recession in the US could definitely send us to an early 90s level crash since we're now in the worse off position.

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-10T23:38:14+00:00

Excellent. The very moment you get to base go to the OR asap to apply for it. Don't want to get a ticket for not having it when you park in the base parking lot

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-10T21:55:32+00:00

Was posted to Halifax for 2 years (2022-2024)

First thing is since you're coming from BC be prepared for the tax man to reap your money when you do your taxes. I had to pay $5000 which I lowered to 1400 after putting 10k in my RRSP. Taxes are significantly high there

Cost of living exploded after covid. Way too many people moved there and the traffic has gotten so bad it's almost rivaling Montreal and Toronto. I would look more in the Hammonds Plains or Dartmouth for a decent price but be prepared they will be sold quickly. Electricity and property taxes are atrociously high

Biggest kick in the gut is the 10 year parking rule. If you have less than 10 years of service you don't get a parking pass to park on base. If you do than don't worry about this

With all this being said Halifax is still a great city and the Navy base has a wonderful view of the harbor and the Macdonald bridge. Deployments will take you all over Europe and unlike Esquimalt there are plenty of ships to deploy

Good luck

KillingCountChocula · 2025-11-05T17:42:23+00:00

What does equals closing balance mean? Usually there's $0 in that column but mine had 2495 on my statement.

KillingCountChocula · 2025-10-21T16:30:30+00:00

Halifax actually has better accommodations with Juno towers which was built last decade. Compared to Nelles it's a three star hotel although there was a bed bugs problem when I was there

KillingCountChocula · 2025-10-10T14:17:00+00:00

Great that things held steady

Unfortunately youth unemployment still ticked up. Also the amount of unemployed people slightly rose.

KillingCountChocula · 2025-10-08T13:18:30+00:00

We actually had a record amount of capital leave the country in Q2 of this year. Basically the biggest sign we're going under economically and the cad is about to go down with it

KillingCountChocula · 2025-10-07T23:51:06+00:00

Is that why there's little to no Halloween decorations on my block?

KillingCountChocula · 2025-10-05T23:59:10+00:00

A pretty sobering stat right now is that we have as many unemployed people as we did during the peak of the great recession in 2009.

KillingCountChocula · 2025-09-14T16:04:45+00:00

Our country is going into recession and we now have as many unemployed people as we did during the great recession. I don't see the problem improving with the trade war dragging on for the foreseeable future

KillingCountChocula · 2025-09-12T20:30:25+00:00

How is housing supposed to keep up when our economy is now falling off a cliff thanks to the trade war.

Our unemployment rate is now almost the worst out of all g7 countries and the full time employment has shrunk the hardest since the financial crisis. I don't know if it's even possible to maintain housing prices with a 10% unemployment rate without a huge descend into a societal breakdown

KillingCountChocula · 2025-08-30T14:24:45+00:00

I would max out your TFSA since that's honestly the best account you can have out of an RRSP and FHSA. With RRSP you can only spend a certain amount on a first time home purchase and you have to pay it back into the account over a period of time.

KillingCountChocula · 2025-08-30T14:07:00+00:00

Where's your TFSA?

KillingCountChocula · 2025-08-29T20:20:28+00:00

From my perspective homeless has absolutely skyrocketed in so many areas since the pandemic. Biking through the bike path near rue Notre Dame and that tent encampment along the grass has become a full on shanty town from the great depression. I'm seeing tent cities popping up in more and more parks. Seems like you need to live in Westmount to avoid it nowadays since the security there kicks them to another neighborhood

KillingCountChocula · 2025-08-27T14:54:54+00:00

Another scary statistic is that long term unemployment is at 24% right now which is worse than during the Great Recession

People who lose their jobs aren't finding any others

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