You need to understand that a statement of fact isn't a complaint. It's a statement of fact, bringing to bear a reality point.
The level of condescension oozing out of your posts is off the charts. Also, I never said a thing about moving the base. Not once.
In fact, if you go back and read my first post, I mentioned distance from EDM, its airport and services, PLD differential, lack of business and failing real estate markets.
You were so primed to tell someone they need to adjust their perspective and adopt a new paradigm that you couldn't even process my little blurb. You were just all up out there identifying character flaws, calling me a complainer and all kinds of shit.
Go back and read my first post again, then read your big response. You responded to everybody's comments from all time it seems, and pointed all your woke shit at me. You didn't even process that I'm no longer in CL, which was clearly stated in the last sentence of that original post.
Just had to tell me all the ways I'm wrong and what I need to change regarding my perspective and understanding of my environment. You're still pumping info about how the oil industry is changing and expectations need to change - I was talking in past tense, and that was abundantly clear. Read the post one more time, I'm no longer in CL.
You even missed the original point of this thread, which I admittedly veered away from. That point being that 9.2M dedicated to CL for the new fighter isn't jack shit. The hospital they just opened, which was a year late, cost over 35M.
If they want to build a new hangar for the new fighter, great! It's gonna run over 100M, easy. Also, what are they going to put in it? Recycled AUS F18s? Nope, since the infrastructure they will build into the hangar(s) must cater to the new platform, you can't mix and match.
So we don't know if it'll be a Super Hornet, an F35 or a Gripen yet. That 9.2M is toilet paper when one considers the real dollars involved. Design alone is gonna run at least 10% of the overall cost, and that going to top 130M easily. That nugget of 9.2M was leaked to the news so the gvnt could be seen to be doing something. Forget about the fact that RP Ops will burn through 15M in a blink, 9.2M pointed at the new fighter program is almost nothing. It's not a new hangar, it's not design, it's not even enough to demolish an old hangar. It's not much more than a headline with no substance.
If, in the decade required to move forward with fighter jets things start to ramp up in CL it'll restore the local economy in a big way, but until then all the things I mentioned aren't complaints but statements of the reality one will encounter whilst living in Cold Lake.
Take your impromptu advice column back to RMC or wherever you came from. You didn't offer any solutions either, but rather presented a bunch of personal opinion and criticism on mentality and attitude without coming anywhere near offering any sort of solution, as suggested by you in your criticisms, to the issues brought forth. Your "solutions" consisted of nothing but telling people to change their attitude, inform themselves better regarding a posting's environment and some hindsight advice on big oil and real estate strategy.
Thanks for all that hot air, it was a real game changer for everyone.