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Originally Posted by dissentowner
It is very bad here and I am seriously debating moving at this point.
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Well, it's not Ontario that is in the crapper, it's PARTS of Ontario that are suffering. When you say SW Ontario, I'm assuming the Lake Superior area (from the Sault, to Thunder Bay to Kenora). And those places are suffering. The Sault has gone from an unemployment rate of 6.4 in 2007 to 13.3 now.
I'd recommend moving. I'm originally from Nova Scotia and I graduated with a degree in Computer Science.. and couldn't find a decent well paying job in Halifax. There were just very few jobs compared to the number of graduates. So I became part of Nova Scotia's #1 export: "Educated young people". It is hard to move from the familiar, away from friends and family, but having a job is more important.
It's funny.... my mother was laid off from the company she worked for for 27 years (needed 30 for a pension). She was out of work for 2 years and she went into a tailspin and ended up in a depression. So many people I have worked with over the years have said something like "Oh, I'd like to have a year off just to sit and watch TV and not have to drag myself into this place every day" but that quickly becomes torturous. BEYOND the paycheck, work gives you more than that - a sense of contributing, a sense of working with a team to get things done, etc..
I've said it before... "People who are working say that they'd rather not be working, people who are not working say that they'd rather be working."
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FWIW - I'm in Ottawa. As a government town, it works in the inverse. It prospers during a recession and the cuts come when the economy recovers. Which is why Stockwell Day was moved to head Treasury Board with the task of cutting the federal public service. But at the moment the unemployment rate is between 5 and 6 percent.