When I moved to Vancouver from Calgary and took a look at the water/sewer utilities for possible consulting work, I discovered something I'd hardly known could exist: public-service employees with options that don't require a major move.
If you can keep water on and sewers open in Calgary or Regina, and hate your boss at the utility, you'll have to move towns: there's only one employer that needs your specific skills. (If your daughter is kidnapped, and held in a place where the sewer blocks up, I have highly specific skills to save her. From the sewer thing, anyway.)
In Vancouver, I talked to guys that had worked for Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, and UBC (not a town but pop. 50,000 in daytime, that's some sewage system - no jokes, please) all without moving his house.
This is a good thing for the staff, I had some envy. But it's not a great thing for the population. In utilities, bigger is cheaper per-person, almost always.
When I moved to Vancouver from Calgary and took a look at the water/sewer utilities for possible consulting work, I discovered something I'd hardly known could exist: public-service employees with options that don't require a major move.
If you can keep water on and sewers open in Calgary or Regina, and hate your boss at the utility, you'll have to move towns: there's only one employer that needs your specific skills. (If your daughter is kidnapped, and held in a place where the sewer blocks up, I have highly specific skills to save her. From the sewer thing, anyway.)
In Vancouver, I talked to guys that had worked for Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, and UBC (not a town but pop. 50,000 in daytime, that's some sewage system - no jokes, please) all without moving his house.
This is a good thing for the staff, I had some envy. But it's not a great thing for the population. In utilities, bigger is cheaper per-person, almost always.