Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
#378
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
That's the problem Canadians ignore what to the outside world are many obvious problems in Canada.
Lets discuss the native Indian problem, what it costs, they do nothing but you pay but say little.
I have a friend in Canada awaiting the "Native Tax Free" card down to his Gt Gt Grandmother born Scotland around 1850 and then his son gets one
Your Barmy
Lets discuss the native Indian problem, what it costs, they do nothing but you pay but say little.
I have a friend in Canada awaiting the "Native Tax Free" card down to his Gt Gt Grandmother born Scotland around 1850 and then his son gets one
Your Barmy
#380
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
$6000?! I pay $130 per month for my insurance in BC.
#381
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
That's the problem Canadians ignore what to the outside world are many obvious problems in Canada.
Lets discuss the native Indian problem, what it costs, they do nothing but you pay but say little.
I have a friend in Canada awaiting the "Native Tax Free" card down to his Gt Gt Grandmother born Scotland around 1850 and then his son gets one
Your Barmy
Lets discuss the native Indian problem, what it costs, they do nothing but you pay but say little.
I have a friend in Canada awaiting the "Native Tax Free" card down to his Gt Gt Grandmother born Scotland around 1850 and then his son gets one
Your Barmy
#382
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
I was pretty convinced this was a Troll, but now I'm starting to think it's a real person who has been very wronged by Canada and Canadians. I know I live on the other side of a particularly large country from NS, but I still, in some way, can't help feeling just a little bit responsible.
As ever YPMV, but there's no Provincial system for vehicle insurance in Ontario.
That being said, I've just checked my banking on line and it appears I pay $272.82 per month for insuring two cars (neither, I'm pleased to report, a V6 or V8 embarrassment).
Which is still silly.
I pay the equivalent of $80 per month for a vehicle similar to the bigger one that I have here in France.
Last edited by Novocastrian; Jan 30th 2015 at 2:38 am.
#383
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
If you borrow somebodies car, you borrow their insurance which no doubt is a higher risk for the insurance company, so increases the premium... also there are less people paying in so the premiums have to be higher to be able to enable insurance companies to pay out when an insured makes a claim. There must be other differences which go towards justifying higher premiums over here... I spent 6 months working for an insurance company but I have conveniently forgotten most of what I learnt!!
#384
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
If you borrow somebodies car, you borrow their insurance which no doubt is a higher risk for the insurance company, so increases the premium... also there are less people paying in so the premiums have to be higher to be able to enable insurance companies to pay out when an insured makes a claim. There must be other differences which go towards justifying higher premiums over here... I spent 6 months working for an insurance company but I have conveniently forgotten most of what I learnt!!
#385
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
That's the problem Canadians ignore what to the outside world are many obvious problems in Canada.
Lets discuss the native Indian problem, what it costs, they do nothing but you pay but say little.
I have a friend in Canada awaiting the "Native Tax Free" card down to his Gt Gt Grandmother born Scotland around 1850 and then his son gets one
Your Barmy
Lets discuss the native Indian problem, what it costs, they do nothing but you pay but say little.
I have a friend in Canada awaiting the "Native Tax Free" card down to his Gt Gt Grandmother born Scotland around 1850 and then his son gets one
Your Barmy
Oh, and it's 'you're', not 'your'. My 7 year old can manage to get the correct version of your/you're, if you could too it would make your posts much easier to read.
#386
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
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I was looking at NS and only tried the banking accounts for newcomers though. I figured, as I wasn't PR until I landed there was no use in continuing this online, YMMV. For me it was just as easy to set it up in NS.
Last edited by CFAmovingsoon; Jan 30th 2015 at 7:41 am.
#387
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
We used HSBC in the UK and opened Canadian bank account with them before we moved, was nice having credit and debit card all set up. We do everything online and haven't had any issues and living 2 hours away from Halifax have had no need to go to the bank itself to deal with anything
#388
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Haha, I read that back several times and couldn't see what was wrong so decided I was tired... I'll put it down to working too many hours yesterday and moving furniture in my spare time!!!
#389
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
If you borrow somebodies car, you borrow their insurance which no doubt is a higher risk for the insurance company, so increases the premium... also there are less people paying in so the premiums have to be higher to be able to enable insurance companies to pay out when an insured makes a claim. There must be other differences which go towards justifying higher premiums over here... I spent 6 months working for an insurance company but I have conveniently forgotten most of what I learnt!!
Since many of the same companies operate here as in the UK and the US we can reasonably suppose that, given the freedom, they'd calculate their auto premiums here in the same way as they do other lines of business here or vehicles in the UK. That method being approximately that actuaries project how much money is needed to achieve an acceptable loss ratio and sales people bump it up to the highest number they think they can get. Note that surprisingly few insurance companies in the US calculate their own premiums, they typically buy the rates from a shared service and then bump them so as not to "leave money on the table", that is, charge less than the driver will pay.
The problem in Canada is that a very high premium is needed to achieve even a break even loss ratio and a break even loss ration won't do in a time of low interest rates. The crux of this matter is that people in Canada drive badly and they like to sue each other.
There's all manner of other things wrong with the insurance industry in Canada, of course; archaic working practices, multiple levels of government meddling in every detail of the premium calculation, ill considered reporting requirements, the agency system, rampant nepotism, product bundling reducing competition, lawyers, and the dishonesty and corruption typical of the industry worldwide. However the inability of people in Canada to turn their vehicle lights on and steer out of the way of other cars is not the fault of the insurance companies.