End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
Jan 2nd 2014, 6:10 am
#16
Yorkshire meets Vegas
Joined: Jul 2004
Location: T. ON (so there!)
Posts: 1,354
Re: End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
Mostly. 2014 is the year of debt repayment for me.
Jan 2nd 2014, 11:03 am
#17
Sawdust making harpy
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,291
Re: End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
No
Jan 2nd 2014, 11:06 am
#18
me/moi
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 24,531
Re: End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
Starting to notice a correlation between persons who post regularly on BE and those who are NOT better off!! Hmmmmm...should we be more productive with our time? 
Jan 2nd 2014, 2:11 pm
#19
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Re: End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
I'm not worse off either, or if I am I'm not counting.
Jan 2nd 2014, 2:32 pm
#20
BE user by choice
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Posts: 4,854
Re: End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
income/outgoing/standard of living 'in Canada' is not shining brightly on the horizon...New Brunswick's star is dreadfully dimming, and if the politicians can't get to grips with this it will get worse...Macadam a small town near me, has lost 25% of its working population as all the productive people have gone West. Yes, 'my' income has gone up 100% since I moved to Canada, I wasn't working before I came here....but No, I'm still not better off.
Jan 2nd 2014, 2:46 pm
#21
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Re: End of year financial M.O.T. Are you better off?
I am with you there....world markets may weft and weave, but my ultimate
income/outgoing/standard of living 'in Canada' is not shining brightly on the horizon...New Brunswick's star is dreadfully dimming, and if the politicians can't get to grips with this it will get worse...Macadam a small town near me, has lost 25% of its working population as all the productive people have gone West. Yes, 'my' income has gone up 100% since I moved to Canada, I wasn't working before I came here....but No, I'm still not better off.
income/outgoing/standard of living 'in Canada' is not shining brightly on the horizon...New Brunswick's star is dreadfully dimming, and if the politicians can't get to grips with this it will get worse...Macadam a small town near me, has lost 25% of its working population as all the productive people have gone West. Yes, 'my' income has gone up 100% since I moved to Canada, I wasn't working before I came here....but No, I'm still not better off.
Things aren't so bad here though, but the question was "are you better off than last year", and the answer is no.
No matter. We're certainly not badly off.
Jan 2nd 2014, 3:23 pm
#22
BE user by choice
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Posts: 4,854
