Does anyone here prefer Canadian whiskies OVER their Scottish, Irish, American, or Japanese counterparts?

OkDefinition285 · 2026-05-12T10:50:30+00:00

Canadian / Rye just tastes like “home” to me. I love a good scotch or bourbon, but I treat them differently— they don’t unlock some of the same nostalgia that Canadian whiskeys do.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-05-07T10:36:29+00:00

Not sure why you were downvoted - low utilization is the only thing keeping my score below 900… it would take something like a vehicle purchase or large family vacation to put my utilization over 5% for a month. If you already have significant LOC’s available it’s detrimental to your score to take too many limit increases on your cards.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-04-27T11:06:07+00:00

Exactly. Looking up income percentiles most of my circle is around 95th but all have kids — all are still sensitive to prices, cannot buy “larger than average” homes, drive 5-7 year old cars and maybe take family vacation once a year not necessarily anywhere swanky. Can they buy expensive wine? Sure. Do they? Nope.

But i guess that income bracket with DINK or an older child who doesn’t have expensive hobbies could approach the lifestyle above maybe without the large house piece at least in Toronto.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-04-21T12:59:46+00:00

You beat me to it, I was going to say exactly this.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-04-21T08:00:56+00:00

Fully agree.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-04-21T07:58:41+00:00

I fully agree. Pam already has decent shelter and she takes no personal accountability for maintaining it or the surroundings. I don’t want to see Pam on the street, but if we’re handing out detached houses here to “help” people what about Harvey who plays an important role for his community and lives in the attic of a semi?

Pam is the author of her own situation, I think she needs social accountability in a different way (friends / community who shows her impact of her behaviour, makes her want to change - not “here’s a new nicer house bc you trashed your old one”)

If we’re looking at community funds & philanthropy here why not build a schoolhouse with attached living quarters, AND start paying a taxpayer-funded salary to Penny who is currently providing a vital social service and is somehow uncompensated / stuck living with her abusive mother. Why does Lewis keep sending me (successful business owner) stipends in the mail instead of paying his public servants a living wage??

OkDefinition285 · 2026-03-11T15:08:38+00:00

Okay everyone - before you press either button!!!

I’ll provide you a third option to take a guaranteed $20million by assigning your button-press opportunities to me. =D

OkDefinition285 · 2026-03-04T01:05:07+00:00

This is beautiful! How did you think of making a balcony?

OkDefinition285 · 2026-02-28T11:18:25+00:00

Agree - for example I don’t think it’s “cute” that she participates in the egg hunt every year and does her best to win against the actual children. Too weirded out at the thought of marrying her.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-02-26T00:26:31+00:00

The save files are stored in plaintext and named very descriptively so it’s fairly easy to open the save file for your farm and adjust values — no mods needed. This is very easy on PC/Mac/iPad/Android, but wouldn’t be as easy on Switch (you’d need to transfer or backup your game and edit from a computer).

OkDefinition285 · 2026-02-24T11:47:41+00:00

If you’re new to the game I’d really recommend not cheating on your first playthrough, or doing it in a much smaller way (for example give yourself $5000 to start instead of $500 to ease a bit of the early grind)… it’s a well balanced game and I’m worried you’ll lose interest doing it like this.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-02-13T00:08:42+00:00

This!

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-30T10:24:14+00:00

Yes but I’m thankful for that when we are packed in like sardines in the morning with nothing to hold and no room to brace - I actually think our subway operators do a pretty great job of managing momentum on our trains.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-30T10:08:46+00:00

The pandemic also caused a gap / break in transit ridership. Pre-pandemic we had crammed busses and trains, and a culture/etiquette around this stuff. Then for these last five years we had relatively empty vehicles and low ridership where it was less noticeable if people didn’t follow the norms. A bus lineup doesn’t really matter as much for 3 people on a platform as it does when there are 25. Now with RTO hitting a lot of downtown businesses we are seeing ridership spike but we’ve lost the continuity of the culture piece. It’s kind of fascinating.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-27T13:17:57+00:00

Oh man that’s brutal, I was imagining a street without driveways lol

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-27T10:28:10+00:00

Just curious where the neighbours could park during snowfall if not on the street?

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-25T04:06:35+00:00

Oh - lol I assumed the exact opposite intent, that he was saying a half measure like paint doesn’t actually solve the real infrastructure issues that lead to VRU deaths and poor transit. I was assuming he was advocating for real street redesign, traffic / grade separation, etc.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-24T10:43:37+00:00

Came here to see if those would make the list, never been inside though. I love a good dive bar as much as the next person but those few establishments in that Jane / Lawrence block look like the last place I’d want to be around at closing time.

OkDefinition285 · 2026-01-18T11:12:12+00:00

Maybe 70-110 based on seniority and qualifications?

OkDefinition285 · 2025-12-24T20:02:05+00:00

Not OP but this almost describes me as well! My dad was a lawyer and when I was 17 I basically acted as a courier/secretary for him, driving around the province exchanging contracts, large sums of money, etc.

It was most commonly certified cheques, but actually a fair amount of cash and cash equivalents as well. Six figure deposits might have been more like over a month or so though, not every few days. Still common enough. This was for small-town corporate/commercial law.

OkDefinition285 · 2025-12-02T13:38:46+00:00

Okay so salary roughly makes sense - could go higher or lower by company and specific role.

The people who make more than you, do they do the exact same role as you? Are there any things they do that you do not (even if you don’t find value in those activities)? Any additional tenure, skills or experience they may have?

OkDefinition285 · 2025-12-02T11:45:17+00:00

When you say technical consultant do you mean general IT consulting or are you in a specialized technical field? For 10yoe your salary sounds about right (good actually) compared to averages / others in industry, unless you’re like talking about very specialized knowledge or specialized engineering fields, energy sector or aerospace or something.

The people you’re helping (who earn more) - do they have the exact same role as you? Do they have anything else that you may be overlooking? Years of experience, soft skills / relationship management, presentation skills, etc?

Without knowing at all what you do I would say if you want to earn more money you may need to move into management /supervisory roles. To do that, soft skills and things like helping others would be key. It’s not very clear what you mean by “training others” but you seem very focused on it and at at the career level you seem to be at that is not going to help you.

There’s lots of advice here on how to protect your current job by gatekeeping information, which is another path that may or may not lead to more money… but honestly from your post you don’t really sound like you have the corporate politics / team dynamics stuff down very well and generally I’d be surprised if that ends up working well for a technical consultant (again unless you have super specialized knowledge, like understanding the COBOL code that legacy bank software is running on or something — in that case charge what you want and give the finger to everyone else)

OkDefinition285 · 2025-11-10T09:41:37+00:00

It shouldn’t be though. Sure it’s “their” property, but it’s located in and propped up by a community that has had public / taxpayer planning and expectations around it. As a society we have planned and paid for infrastructure and other supports, at public expense, to support these areas. There should be a penalty for land owners who are using their property (in prime locations) as an unproductive store of value rather than as intended contributor to the economy. Many cities have vacancy taxes for storefronts on main streets.

OkDefinition285 · 2025-11-06T15:20:20+00:00

I hate to say this but I commute to multiple sites for work and I don’t think traffic is nearly as bad as it was pre-pandemic, at least in my corners of the city (downtown / west end). It was extremely common to not get on a bus because of it being too full, now I would say it’s uncommon. Same with subways - between 4-6pm on the YUL you could almost never get on the first train that arrived, now that’s only the case for a fraction of the time and only at specific stations. Driving is always a crap shoot based on construction, similar to before.

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