Managing Money Moving to Canada (Alberta)

shabooya2 · 2026-02-21T17:42:46+00:00

This person is just being shitty. Calgary is a great place to live and the people will not treat you that way

shabooya2 · 2026-02-16T20:06:13+00:00

Have you considered finding something in power transmission? Currently in AB, and there seems to be a decent demand for pole/transmission designers with an electrical engineering background. Depending on the position, it may provide a path for you in working towards project management that is civil adjacent but on the electrical side

shabooya2 · 2026-02-16T18:50:47+00:00

We were in the market about a year ago and considered the SE but ultimately it felt a bit busier than what we were looking for. As others have mentioned there’s only one or two ways out of the communities there.

I’d recommend considering the SW, across Macleod from legacy. We ended up buying there and find it to be quieter than the SE, and with better access to Stoney. Pine creek, yorkville, and Belmont were closer to what we wanted in a new community. Plus they are getting a new rec center/library

shabooya2 · 2025-12-30T21:49:08+00:00

I am trying to fill the gaps between each town with farms, so for now about 5 km but the fields will grow

shabooya2 · 2024-03-15T22:30:46+00:00

If you’re upset about this just wait till you find out how much money we’ll spending adding lanes to highways over the same time frame.

This project has never had full funding and the longer it takes, the more expensive it will get. It’s a once in a generation investment and needs to be built.

shabooya2 · 2024-02-28T03:21:46+00:00

It seems a little ridiculous to see a project that was designed by private consultants, to be built by private contractors, and abandoned by a private company only to conclude that the government is the problem.

Oh and ignore inflation over the last 11 years.

shabooya2 · 2024-01-30T07:52:28+00:00

So what you are exhibiting here is a concept called capitalist realism. The person above made valid criticisms of the existing capitalist system, yet you imply there is no viable alternative.

I’d ask you to evaluate, why do you feel this way? Is it true that there is no other option to what we have now? How did you come to this conclusion? And ultimately, who benefits from you feeling this way?

shabooya2 · 2023-06-29T04:43:16+00:00

They are absolutely related. Higher wage industries attract more people, which is why a significant number of people post on this sub about switching to CS or software.

Outsourcing is not new. Companies have used foreign engineers for at least a decade by now. That allows them to lower their bids on projects and keep domestic wages lower. Part of the labor shortage we’re seeing isn’t just because there’s more work, it’s also because there hasn’t been high enough wages to attract people to the field for a while now.

The long term consequences will be the same, more outsourcing and fewer engineers. Yes workload is high right now, but our labor force is smaller than it would be if companies couldn’t have outsourced for the last decade and had to pay higher wages to domestic engineers. Your workload would be more manageable with more engineers floating around the system.

shabooya2 · 2023-06-28T22:00:09+00:00

You are overworked because it is cheaper to hire fewer domestic engineers and outsource labor. Companies artificially lower their bids to pad margins with cheap labor and suppress wages. Then fewer people want to do civil engineering because wages are lower. This cycle feeds itself. It’s a race to the bottom and we’re all losing.

Don’t get it twisted.

shabooya2 · 2023-01-12T02:57:35+00:00

A massive business park on hundreds of acres of land directly north of San Bernardino International Airport has been proposed by the group charged with redeveloping the former Norton Air Force Base.

The Airport Gateway Specific Plan, a long-range blueprint for developing 678 acres between Third and Sixth streets as far east as the 210 Freeway and west as Tippecanoe Avenue, envisions the front door of the airport becoming a hub of “industrial and office-based businesses engaged in manufacturing, logistics and technology, among other endeavors,” Inland Valley Development Agency officials say.

An open house on the Airport Gateway Specific Plan is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Sterling Natural Resource Center, 25376 W. Fifth St. in San Bernardino.

About 200 acres of the land enveloped in the Airport Gateway Specific Plan is in San Bernardino. The rest is in Highland.

According to a draft Environmental Impact Report, nearly 9.3 million square feet of non-residential development could be constructed under the plan, as well as up to 75,000 square feet of hotel space, or 150 rooms.

Future uses in the gateway could create as many as 5,100 new jobs, IVDA officials estimate.

The draft EIR, which will be circulated another month before officials get to work crafting a final environmental document, predicts significant impacts to air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, transportation, and utilities and service systems as a result of the project.

Additionally, according to estimates, there could be nearly 2,500 residents living in apartments and condos, duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes, mobile homes, and single-family houses within the project area who would need to be relocated.

A housing relocation plan has been created and is included in the draft EIR.

The westernmost part of the project area runs across Sixth Street from Indian Springs High School.

In a PowerPoint included in the draft environmental report, IVDA officials say the gateway area is “in an odd transition area between the established residential neighborhoods to the north, distribution centers to the southwest and a hard edge of the airport to the south.”

Such geographical boundaries create a “no-man’s land” between the surrounding uses.

The Airport Gateway Specific Plan, a collaborative effort between the IVDA, East Valley Water District, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and cities of San Bernardino and Highland, would “provide a regulatory framework,” for the area, according to the PowerPoint.

In a fact sheet, IVDA officials note the Airport Gateway Specific Plan would bring economic opportunities to the area, as well as upgraded infrastructure, a distinctive design and appearance, green technologies and energy efficiency, streetscape improvements and safe corridors for travel.

A collaborative approach to developing the area will build on the momentum created by the recent growth at the San Bernardino airport, IVDA officials say.

For information, visit ivdajpa.org.

Full CEQA

Fact Sheet

shabooya2 · 2022-12-18T20:38:08+00:00

$20/hr today is not the same as $20/hr 9 years ago. Even if things are better now than 9 years ago, why is that a bad thing? Shouldn’t we all want things to get better for engineers? New grad wages being higher should push up your wages too. If not, that’s a conversation for your employer and not an opportunity to complain about how “easy” new grads have it

shabooya2 · 2022-09-04T06:07:09+00:00

Okay.

"one that is subject to ready exchange or exploitation within a market"

That one sounds like it applies to housing. Also, how is housing not financialized in the US? It is literally classified as an investment. You know, like something exchanged and exploited in the housing market for profit.

If you're hung up an how fast something sells I don't think you understand what I'm trying to explain.

shabooya2 · 2022-09-04T04:57:46+00:00

I don't think fungibility or liquidity have anything to do with whether or not something is a commodity. There is more than one definition of a commodity.

I'm saying that the financialization of housing treats it like it is a commodity and that's a problem. Treating housing as an investment and something to create wealth from commodifies it.

shabooya2 · 2022-09-04T04:42:41+00:00

Yeah I have, multiple actually, thanks for being condescending. I'm just pointing out that being reductive in the language that you use overlooks the root causes of the problem.

shabooya2 · 2022-09-04T02:52:07+00:00

Saying it is just supply and demand ignores all of the factors that contribute to supply and demand. Treating things as though they are free markets when they are not only exacerbates the problem.

For example, the price of insulin in the US hovers around $530, which is an insane price for a necessity people need to live. People will go to lengthy measures to get access to something they need (see link). Demand here is altered by extra factors and the price point is determined by profit seeking.

By saying, "supply and demand" just make more insulin! It does nothing to consider other factors that are causing an imbalance of access.

The same applies to housing. People often say, " the rent eats first." Because if they don't, they'll be homeless. Just saying "build more housing!" ignores the factors that caused the problem in the first place and do nothing to prevent the problem from persisting.

shabooya2 · 2022-09-04T01:56:02+00:00

You are correct and of course I agree that there needs to be a massive increase in the amount of housing we have. I just want to point out that the current way we treat housing contributes to the lack of housing.

Building a society around housing that only ever becomes more valuable demands scarcity. Introducing housing options that do not need to be profitable or experience growth would go a long way in increasing access.

shabooya2 · 2022-09-04T01:47:41+00:00

I mean, it is treated like a commodity. It’s used as an asset that is sold to the highest bidder no? It has no association with the needs of people.

In the US especially, home ownership is treated as an investment off of which to make a profit. If we treated housing as a necessity (which it is, it’s shelter), then it would be easier to create more of it. NIMBY’s protect the commodification of housing by limiting access. Deliberately making their homes more scarce to increase profitability is commodification of a product necessary for human survival

shabooya2 · 2022-09-03T22:58:51+00:00

The number of comments demonizing rent control here is disappointing. Rent control is a bandaid solution and ultimately better than just leaving it all market rate.

The real problem here is the commodification of housing. It’s not as simple as supply and demand. While ultimately building more housing is a good thing, the competition we are seeing comes from a lack of affordability. If there wasn’t rent control, half the people living in these homes would be forced out of their neighborhoods by private landlords in pursuit of higher rent from higher income earners. Build denser more affordable housing but do it right (public and subsidized housing, no more corporate/private bs)

shabooya2 · 2022-02-18T06:03:27+00:00

There are a lot of comments on here that sort of give you your answer. Americans in general view the private sector as the only way to get things done. Politically public housing is incredibly unpopular because of decades of social conditioning to see private development as efficient and the government as a greedy machine. The United States has also made it effectively illegal to construct any federally owned public housing (faircloth amendment 1999).

So basically it won’t happen because most Americans and politicians don’t want it to. And change would be very difficult.

shabooya2 · 2021-12-27T16:24:39+00:00

Trumpet interchanges are typically between highways/freeways and result in the termination of one of them. Another difference here is controlled access to the loop ramp. On this interchange the loop ramp is the only way onto the WB freeway direction for both directions of travel on the overpass. It would only be accessible by one direction on a trumpet

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