post anything! v2.01 ( we have moved)

[Patty Smyth]

oh haha I just remembered during the boom here that McDonalds would offer like 12-14.00 to start and incentives like pay babysitting costs or bus fees or what ever. lol some incentives were interesting to get people to work at certain places. Employers were desperate and some companies ended up paying for people from Mexico to come work for them and paid for rent too. but the people like that had to sign contracts that they would not work for someone else and if they would quit they had to go back to Mexico. anyways the boom went bust and the jobs got scarce and everything went downhill a bit.

My cousin lives in Sherwood Park and she says a house like mine there would cost over $600,000 and I could barely get $350,000 here.

[dealsniffer]

yeah the Mexicans were working in places like construction and oil and hotels I think? I had heard that Wendys actually brought up some Mexicans as well. it was weird.

[Midnightly]

ohh i think the toodles is awake... i think i may have to go!

[itsjustmebub]

i'm back coffee in hand
oh happy bub

[VeeVee]

BUB did u run to Mcds? haha

[dealsniffer]

haha Patty yeah that sounds about right. A condo was costing about 300,000 on average and that was some of the nicer ones but there were condos being sold privately for like 400,000 also. Condos are not even homes! lol but Edmonton was a lot more expensive. My sister and her husband managed to get a starter home for 340,000 I think it was.

[kool_105]

i'm back coffee in hand
oh happy bub

hehe a happy bub is a good bub

[itsjustmebub]

no i made a coffee
DH came home for lunch and stole the car with the carseats bc he likes it better lol
so we're stuck here

[dealsniffer]

but the costs have gone down again a bit. the thing is people got greedy and rose prices where ever they could and homes were in extremely short supply and so people were able to charge what they wanted. The waits for a new home were over a year easily.

[dealsniffer]

well I am actually leaving now. lol I sort of got stuck here! my fault. I like to chat. lol

[itsjustmebub]

i told littleman if you want a candy you need to have an empty plate
so he brought me his plate and said look empty

(his sandwich was on the table)

[Midnightly]

yup!! and happy!! time to free the beast!

[Miss_April]

i told littleman if you want a candy you need to have an empty plate
so he brought me his plate and said look empty

(his sandwich was on the table)

lol!!

[VeeVee]

i told littleman if you want a candy you need to have an empty plate
so he brought me his plate and said look empty

(his sandwich was on the table)

he is a smarty pants!

[VeeVee]

My niece asked for a hamburger this morning...at 730am!