Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Boraxman
From : Accession
Date : Sun Apr 20 2025 07:36 am

Hey Boraxman!

On Sun, Apr 20 2025 03:46:11 -0500, you wrote:

> In Sydney, it can be hard to find particular types of trades people
> or labourers in some places, simply because they can't afford to
> live there.  Those with the skills that are needed, simply can't be
> in the proximity where the skills are required.

It's not uncommon to live a ways away from the cities where most of the work occurs. I tend to drive anywhere from 5 minutes up to an hour away to certain job sites. Anything more than an hour I try to avoid, since it doesn't benefit me without paid windshield time. Sometimes, per diem is offered if driving more than (I think) 60 miles each way, etc.
  
> It's quite a simple thing to understand, that people with the skills
> you rely on, need to be able to live near you.  But yet people
> advocate the exact opposite, that they should dissapear.

Let them advocate for whatever they want. When their basement/septic backs up or floods, or their shingles fly off their roof with a huge rainstorm on it's way, and they have to wait 2+ hours for someone to show up, maybe they will change their opinion.
  
> Then they complain of a skills shortage!!  Then they complain that
> the few that remain charge such high prices because of lack of
> competition.

It sounds like there's more complaining going on out that way, than actual work getting done! ;)

Regards,
Nick

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