Souvy

Dunno why it would be called that. They are all over the place in QC. The person on Reddit might live in Ottawa.

Different bylaws. In Gatineau it just has to be X feet from the road/sidewalk, fire hydrant or property boundary. In Ottawa you can't have one unless it's at the side or back of your house. There are not many houses I've seen in Ottawa where that is feasible.

BristolUK

Article in the paper today about people seeing enormous increases in electricity bills between December and January, with the power company saying it was the excessively cold weather.

But I think we may have had as many -30 feels like days in December as January - albeit that some may have been on the 'January' bill with the last few days of Jan being on the next bill.

Anyway, $250 in Dec became $600 for Jan for one person and another went $346 to $610. Someone else said her January bill was often double the December one.

My November bill was $212, Dec $317 and Jan $606 ($454 Jan last year).

Equalised @ $264 = $3168 still seems okay for houses not in BC. For everything, including AC.

Novocastrian

It's been a bit nippy in Newcastle today, we even had a dusting of snow and the temperature is due to plummet to -2C overnight.

At this rate I'll run out of my £200 winter fuel allowance soon.

Tangram

Soon as daughter heads off to do her Masters, we will head off too.

Enough with the cold and snow.

Almost Canadian

Back to the UK, or to somewhere else?

Souvy

I just paid my Hydro bill, here in tropical Quebec. It was $113.

That's equalised. We got a refund last year and our equalised payment was cut by $20 a month.

There are some benefits to living here...........

Tangram

No idea yet

BristolUK

I expect to receive my $100 very soon. Paid to people with less than $30k income.

scrubbedexpat091

Despite the rain upside to Vancouver is warmer winter temps add in living on a 2nd floor apartment and some winters (this one) the heat doesn't even need to be turned on, which we haven't had to do yet this winter and not looking like we will have to either.

Step 1: 395 kW.h @ $0.08580 /kW.h 33.89 for January, the taxes, rate rider and basic daily charge adds about $10.


Unsure why people in BC complain about electric rates, overall I find them reasonable, my dad in California pays 3 times more per kW.h and my mom almost 4 times as much.

Jingsamichty

I'm working in Germany at the moment and my apartment (brand new in a new waterfront development like the London Docklands) has district heating and hot water and electricity included in the rent.

190m2 apartment, heating and hot water included, for EUR 1,000/ month.

I like the fact they have district hot water/heating here... much more efficient than boilers in every single apartment.

scrubbedexpat091

We get hot water, trash/recycling and a parking spot for 1,750/month.

Heating is electric baseboard.

Danny B

I'm getting sick of this bloody snow, hopefully none of this dump makes its way to my driveway.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...ms-lake/95153/

BristolUK

Warning - the snow is forecast to become mixed with ice pellets and then change over to freezing rain or rain before ending.
Every predicted storm of 10cm or more this winter has had this warning tacked onto it. Well, the pellets and freezing rain every time and the ordinary rain a couple.

caretaker

You can't make generalisations about snowflakes, the little bastards are all different.

bats

Our gas bill for December came with a note that it was 25% more than the previous December and that the temperature was 23% colder than usual. So we wasted 2%!