[BartSimpson]

Sorry, but are you telling me that Canada rates poverty as $35k per family regardless of how many kids are in the family?

[andyt]

I'm telling you that BC rates families of 4 requiring assistance with rent at 35k. There is no provision that I can see if you have more kids, but you get less money if you have less. We don't really rate poverty - we have no official poverty elimination program that I'm aware of.

If you're interested to know more about the program, knock yourself out: http://www.bchousing.org/Options/Rental_market/RAP

[bootlegga]

fifeboy fifeboy:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Actually, Melbourne succumbs to the radiation eventually too - in Shute's book, every person on Earth dies.

I thought that at the books end there were still the guys on the sub and some in the Antarctic, which would have made Vostock Station the most livable place on earth.

Maybe, but from the way I read it, the author made it sound like the radioactivity blanketed the earth and killed everyone off.

[fifeboy]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Maybe, but from the way I read it, the author made it sound like the radioactivity blanketed the earth and killed everyone off.

Well, for sure you wouldn't have to worry about loosing your ranking because of an overturned tanker

[herbie]

They were all getting sick and tool off on a final patrol intending to scuttle the sub as a last act.
Glad to see someone else remembers On the Beach. The movie creeped me out totally when it was on TV, not long after the days running home from school with the air raid sirens screaming and half the class shitting themselves... (years later in Gr 12 everyone would unconciously cross to the other side of the street when they passed that goddam thing)
The book is a freebie or a 99 center online, just read it a couple months ago.

But I'd still move to Vancouver if I won the damn lottery. After this shitty excuse for a summer, I can't stand the thought of another winter up here.

[ShepherdsDog]

The cost of living was the deciding factor for my wife and I when we chose Winnipeg over Vancouver for job offers. Rather than being able to buy a nice house in a good neighbourhood and a second house in the country with land, we would have only been able to make a downpayment on a similar house in Vancouver, forget owning a second one. As it stands, everything is bought and paid for. Both properties are rented out, as is the land....making us money, not a hell of a lot but enough.