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Originally Posted by djesus007
I mean, it is lower than in most major cities, but that is cause COL is lower here. I can't think of other major cities where you can rent a two-bedroom apartment in the downtown core for $1200-$1500 a month (or lower). When I attend business conferences, everyone mentions that Montreal is a Boston/Paris hybrid with the prices of Cleaveland. Even then, the average profession in MTL nets at least $60K, which goes far in MTL since COL is cheap. Also, even though taxes are much higher here, people are better off due to the social safety net. Another example is when I was working for the government, I had jobs in MTL and T.O and the salary was $60K a year in MTL, $80K in T.O. I lived more comfortably in MTL making $20K less than in T.O (until I found a higher paying job in T.O that is). Point is, the whole wage argument has many factors and even with MTL having lower wages, the average person gets by much better here than in other cities.
As for the weather, yeah it's slightly colder in MTL and we get about 20 inches more snow, but that's really not a huge difference. Winter is about 4 months long in each city (longer if you're a sissy and think 40-50F is "cold"). But even then, winter is about the same in both cities.
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Climate change has really muted Cleveland winters. I live in Cleveland's snow belt and used my snow blower only once last winter; not once so far this winter. I keep my snow blower gas tank less than half full now because it's a pain to drain the tank in spring, and I wish I had kept the tank empty until I needed to use the blower, a tactic that I will employ in future years and vastly different than the full tank days of even a decade ago (a full tank reduces the risk of condensation and an ice block in the fuel line). Northeast Ohio's maple sugar industry is under great pressure due to an earlier and much shorter sugar season and warmer winters and spring. Only rarely do we experience lows below -10 F. these days in winter, perhaps comparable in percentage to what - 0 degrees were 50 years ago. Compare the weather for this December in both Cleveland and Montreal;
not the same. With the warming of the Arctic, southern U.S. weather more often impacts Cleveland in the winter.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/cl...0127?year=2019
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/mo...-weather/56186
https://www.cleveland.com/datacentra...east-ohio.html
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/weath...pstate-ny.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/c...-to-the-brink/
The maple sugar culture is one aspect of Montreal that I would enjoy greatly!
The Geauga County Maple Festival in northeast Ohio in the heart of Cleveland's lake effect snow belt still is held in late April, even though the maple sugar season is over now by mid-March. I remember once in the 1950s my dad abandoned his attempt to drive us to the festival because the roads were impassable, hardly imaginable these days. Also unimaginable to today's Clevelanders is a blizzard such as this, just 40 years ago.
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2018...ll_stings.html
Today, Greater Cleveland freeways are rarely closed, if ever (depending upon freeway), for more than half a day. The relatively rapid change actually is scary for old-timers.
BTW, Montreal harbor is only 30 feet above sea level. Some climate change experts, such as James Hansen, believe sea level rise could exceed 30 feet by 2100 due to unabated fossil fuel consumption and the kick in of powerful feedback loops.
https://news.yahoo.com/its-already-b...kip=1577809687
Perhaps this is one of the most important stories of 2019, but I only saw it reported in Newsweek.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-sea-b...-thaws-1468686
See Arctic Ocean here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathr...s#Arctic_Ocean
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...arctic-on-fire
https://time.com/5754990/australia-c...issions-fires/
U.N. sea level projections don't consider, yet, the possible (likely?) impact of feedback loops.
Here's a blunt, dire analysis from one of Florida's top sea level experts.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...elizabeth-rush
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