e_dawg said:
Winnipeg. A godawful place if there ever was one
I've never been personally...but there is certainly not a lot of incentive to go now is there: its flat, it floods, it sits on swamps (hence the squeeters in the summer), its boring, its frickin' freezing in the winter, and they don't have a hockey team anymore...although I admit my opinion of it is mostly based on hersey (except for the part about the hockey team).
Maybe if you move East into interior BC, but then you get back to that cold problem in the winter.
There are some very temperate regions of BC, where cold winters is not really a factor. In reality, Toronto and rest of Southwestern Ontario shouldn't have much to complain about in terms of the cold - its of a low enough latitude.
Pradeep said:
I believe the tax free threshold for US citizens returning to the US has recently been upped to US$800.
That's insane compared to a Canadian's duty free threshold - you have to be out of the country >48hrs just to bring back in $100 (can't remember if thats US or Cdn) worth of goods - either way, its still a piddly amount. Of course longer absences allow for larger amounts which I'm not overly familar with offhand.
Cougtek said:
Unless this thing is marked as having no monetary value...
I also hear that if you get the shipper to write gift or "evaluation unit" (for hardware) you can get it in without incurring the wrath of the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency.
JKKJ said:
it's usually better to source goodies from a local shop. Then the problem becomes availability for unusual parts, but that's another story....
I would go further to say that it
always is better to source from home in terms of the end cost....I would also revise the unusual parts to just plain parts - it just takes forever for items to reach the Cdn marketplace....and even then, half of the stuff you would like to see never ever shows up. That said, I prefectly understand the way the supply chain mechanics play out - xxxMillions of American consumers, xCdn consumers....I'm just bitter that the lack of economic incentives for trade are barring my prusuit of digital happiness.
CK
