First off, congrats Mr and Mrs Zog on the home purchase, beautiful home. Makes me misty eyed you've not been here long and are already homeowners.
Send me a PM with your new addy so I can UPS a housewarming gift.
The guys here get paid $18p/h for an emergency medical responder (80hour course), plus union benefits. But not as lucrative as a plumber 
(My comment was directed mainly to TvB)
One day, when I get my plumbers license, I may earn up to $20 / hour. It seems that salaries in Canada are a lot higher than in the US 
Key word - "Seems". Just because our beloved neighbors to the north get paid more per hour for a comparable job, does NOT mean they're better off, especially when cost of living is factored in. Example: Gasoline is $2.50
usd per us gal or .67 cents a liter near me. Nova Scotia gasoline costs $1.30
CAD per liter or $4.93 CAD per us gallon.
That's just gasoline my friend, wait until you see what groceries cost in Canada vs USA. That's why anytime I'm near a border town in my state, Detroit, Port Huron, or Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on the weekends and weekdays, thousands upon thousands of Canucks cross the border daily to smuggle groceries and goods back into Canada.
Then factor in exchange rates where the Canadian dollar is quite weak against the USD - 1 USD = 1.31 CAD.
Once you have enough hours to attain Journeyman status, you'll be struggling much less, once you attain Master certification, shit bro, I have 3 Master Plumber friends, one went to work for a large construction company, the other two pricks own their own business, each work on their own, driving around a van with their respective business name. Both charge around $100 per hour and they're ALWAYS BUSY.
However, business owners with numerous employees do have an advantage in Canada wrt socialized medicine.
Stay where you are ZOG

With how things are going up there right now, scary scary times for a country I love nearly as much as my own.
Remember what that amazingly beautiful and intelligent British woman, Margaret Thatcher stated, "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".

So the end result was that I came home with a BRAND NEW (never run before, but they did start it up in the workshop in the back for me) 2017 model Mercury 9.9 HP 4 Stroke! And I got it for a shade over $800 less than the 2018 / 2019 models. Apparently there are no differences
Excellent find that will provide decades of reliable service. Quiet and so efficient, they must run on vapor. I told my dad about your $800 off 9.9 find, he called you a "lucky fuck"

, he claimed a 9.9 Merc is identical to a 9.9 Nissan/Tohatsu, IF you were to need a spare part, don't quote me on this

dad (he's as old as dirt) claims the Mercury branded part will most likely be more expensive than the identical Nissan/Tohatsu branded part. This is likely due to Americans perception of Nissan cars built in the USA, they used to be excellent cars, now they're junk, nothing like the ultra reliable Nissan Patrols you Africans are accustomed to.
I love those big box stores for that reason. The same thing happened to me on a John Deere lawn tractor. I bought a $2,500 JD for, I shit you not, $1,300

Why? It had one, no I'm serious, ONE carriage bolt missing from the mower deck

It was at Home Depot

I couldn't get my CC out fast enough

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