Recent content by axolotl

I moved to Quebec last June. So I've already experienced the winter here.

I am now on parental leave for a second time (although it's about the same baby). A good moment for some reflections. It was a great decision to move to Montreal from Toronto. Quality of life is much better here. I recently purchased a three-bedroom house for 336,000 dollars, on a...

I am now focusing on paying off my mortgage in the Netherlands at 4.7%. It is partly because I feel an economic/financial winter is coming. If it does come, I will have cash/income to buy whatever at a more attractive price. If it does not, it's also okay. Recently I read Antifragile. It has...

The secret of two-hour working days is to have your boss in a different city (e.g. Toronto). Commute is not bad at all. I used to take the train to Montreal and the train itself took 30 minutes. Now I drive (25 minutes) to Costco, where I can park for free, and then walk to the office in...

I haven't bought any other property since then. The move to Quebec has made it less easy to look actively for properties in the Windsor region. I tried, but could not find anything as interesting in the Montreal area. The market here is less crazy than in Toronto. But it is still hard to...

Indeed it has been a while since my last update. Here's a brief summary of what happened since then. I became less and less happy with my then employer and I left in April 2018. I started with another company in Montreal as a Lead Data Scientist in July. Now I live in Saint Bruno, a small town...

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Just for fun, I did some research on the legality of putting one's extra rooms on Airbnb in Ontario. The findings are very interesting. First of all, as long as a tenant still occupies the unit, it does not constitute a sublet, and consequently any no-sublet clause in the lease agreement does...

This return is not really extraordinary for multi-family properties in Downtown Windsor. The one is Pasadena NL is close to Gros Morne National Park. A good way to estimate your future Airbnb returns is to post the property in which you are interested on Airbnb, without actually owning it or...

Then I'd rather have the guests in the basement :) I heard it really varies from baby to baby. Some babies keep crying, while others sleep and sleep. It can be sometimes counter-intuitive. I looked around on Airbnb, it seems that the average price in Halifax is much lower than in some more...

I haven't updated this thread for a while. There have been some changes to my life. The most important one is that my partner is pregnant and I am expected to become a parent in October. We first tried IUI and then IVF. On 30 January at 6:45, I learned that the egg retrieval was scheduled on 2...

If this is the case, then I had two ETAs when they issued me the COPR: one from my previous application in July 2017 (for which I paid 7 CAD), another automatically generated with the COPR in Oct 2017. The one they cancelled later was the one from July 2017. This would explain everything. But...

They asked "Do you have an ETA? Have you printed it out?" I showed them the ETA email on my phone. I guess they were idiots. But idiots are everywhere. WOW Air has never swiped my passport. I used a machine at the airport to print the boarding passes. At the gate, WOW only scanned my boarding pass.

They asked "Do you have an ETA? Have you printed it out?" I showed them the ETA email on my phone. I guess they were idiots. But idiots are everywhere.

Again, my ETA was cancelled on 25/10/2017. Japan Airlines DID ask for an ETA.