This is about the third website announced in the past year for the same purpose. Glad to see that the web designers have a good business plan. It is also nothing more than information that is re-hashed from other sites.

Nice LOOKING website.

I do agree very much with lunarguy. These things are only as good as the data they provide. The more web sites there are that attempt to porvide the data specific to certain querries, the more the data will actually be different.

For instance. It links to the Prince George Chamber Job Store. Neat I said to myself. Let me go and see what kind of jobs are available.

I put in waiter, server, retail clerk, nurse.

This was the result each time:
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Job Search Results (0 out of 0)
We're sorry, but there are currently no jobs that match your search criteria.

Click here to revise your criteria and try again.
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Then I noticed in the right hand corner.

Active Jobs posted = 1

We know, of course, that there are a number of jobs locally in the health care field as well as other areas.

So, this will be populated at some time? Why not simply link to the Northern Health human resources page and others like it?

Same old, same old. The learning curve is quite steep here and happens frequently with new players on the block..

I left 16 hours after my last day of work. I am now retired in the sunny south and we love it. I am from the South and was attracted to the North for career opportunities. Once the job was over, so did the purpose to live there. The best that can be hoped for is to retain the children born here. I am going out for a walk to see water that actually moves. Something PG won't see for the next 4 months.

So then I noticed that the real job site is a BC wide one.

http://bcchamberjobstore.com

It has 7 jobs posted and 3,663 seekers.

Looking further into that the site is actually run by WCG International HR Solutions from Victoria. Their business is to help people find jobs. Hpefully they are contributing to the cost of building and maintaining the site. At the moment it appears that they are not populating the available jobs part. So this appears to be geared more to the businesses who are looking for people rather than people being able to look for jobs.

Whatever happened to gopg.ca? It's supposed to attract tourism, but there's not much there outside of 'Call the 1-800 number for more info'.

Is there any way they can roll all of these promotional PG websites into one? How many do we need?

I love the ocean. To me, Long Beach is a place that has water that moves. Slim pikins for jobs there though.

Water that does not turn into ice jams just does not do it for me. Takes all the excitement away. Ice jams, ocean waves, ocean winter storms. Now there is excitement!

Good riddance Vulture.....we have more than enough haters here already. You won't be missed.

^ bitter much?

I have often wondered why people who did not like it here and have left would come back to a site like this.

Any Psychologists out there that might have an answer to that? Then again, it might actually have already been diagnosed by DtS.

At the bottom of the linked page:

"Nine movie screens in town also provide the option of taking in one of the latest Hollywood blockbusters. Or, for a real treat, relive the past with a trip to the local drive-in movie theatre."

Some much hyperbole in that site. That is one thing. But outright mistakes like that are another thing.

Must have been outsourced to someone who compiled this from other web pages. Proofreading obviously was outsourced too.

http://liveprincegeorge.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=168

Haha, sunny south? Vulture obviously didn't retire to the Lower Mainland. Hopefully you went further "south" than that or you won't be seeing any sunshine for a looooooong time pal. Cheers though, PG will continue on without you. Now where was I......oh yes, just about to go play in the snow. Tata.

I hope culturevulture keeps moving south... indefinately. The vulture part is right anyway. If you find a great place to live and work and cant appreciate it, too bad for you. Just move along and find somewhere else to complain about. Rest easy in the knowledge that you were never part of why PG i a great place. Now just leave us alone, find a website devoted to your own little corner of the world and bore them with your negativity.

Hopefully when culturevulture goes for a walk he can stare at the sky and thank the people of the north for subsidising his lifestyle.

You **people of the North** never subsidized anything. Most if not all the people in this burg came because they were looking for a job.

Vulture is not the only guy leaving town. People are leaving on a continuos basis day in and day out, which is why our population is decreasing. There are in excess of 3500 people in this area who have lost their jobs in the last couple of years, and a lot of them are coming to the end of their EI. There are very few jobs in this town, and there will be a hell of a lot less by this time next year, so these people will have to go somewhere else to make a living.

The chances of them returning is NIL.

This two bit town is no better or no worse that a hundred other towns of the same ilk. All this balderdash about how great Prince George is, is just so much BS.

I have talked to many people over the years and asked them if they would return to or locate in Prince George, and they started to laugh hysterically.

Prince George is a thinly disquised mill town in the middle of the Province surrounded by wilderness. Has a six month winter, and dubious summers.

The only thing constant about the City is the BS we get on these posts from people who state how great it is. I suspect most of these people dont know what they are talking about.

Dont give me any crap about leaving if I dont like the City, as my family moved here in the early 19 hundreds and my grand children are 5th generation Prince Georgians.

You dont have to like a town, to live in it or work in it.

The same thing applies to other towns like Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Smithers, Houston, Quesnel, Williams Lake, etc; These towns dont have much going for them, but people live and work there mainly because they have limited choices.

"people live and work there mainly because they have limited choices."

I guess you do not believe in people migrating - from China to Canada, from Canada to New Zealand, from South Africa to Canada, from Toronto to PG, from PG to Edmonton .....

The world population is migrating from hamlets to villages, from villages to towns, from towns to cities, and from cities to vast urban agglomerations. They migrate from one town and city to another. From east to west, from north to south.

In Canada, home is where you are at the moment. Home is rarely where you were born or where your parents live or your children live.

People have tons of choices and they make the choice to move much more often in Canada and the USA than in many other countries. In fact, the primary reason to move in those countries is likely job opportunities. We are urban nomads.

A "small town" in China has 2 million people. Count yer blessings pal.

Where did the web site developers get their info from???

"Nine movie screens" - I count only 6 at Famous Players, our only movie theatre. Unless they also count Theatre CNC, so that is only 1 more.

There are also more than 1 amateur theatre group. I count at least 3 that i'm involved with personally and I'm sure there are more.

And if i'm not mistaken the last Fringe Festival was 2001.

I asked my parents one day, Why did ya move to PG. They told me it was for work. That was in 1970. We have lived in the PG area for a long time. People pay thousands to have some of the land and views we have. Appeciate what you have and make the best of it.
Times have changed deal with it.

Why does anyone move anywhere? Unless you're independently weathly, 95% of the time, it's going to be 'for work'.

If there's no work, people will stop coming here or move away, despite what some promotional website says PG has to offer.

Some great examples of the so called "great folks" that live in PG. How dare anyone prefer to live in a milder climate.

I moved here from the east. I did not move here for work. I was employed and there was plenty of work where I came from including work that would see me continuing to climb up the ladder of responsibility. Instead of getting my next job up that ladder in the same community, we decided that with the next job move we would also make it a home move. We simply wanted to move to a smaller community. There was one other proviso. We were looking for a small, self contained community that was not a bedroom community of a larger city but had many of the ammenities other than almost unlimited choices due to shear size.

When one thinks about it, there are very few of those types of communities. Prince George happens to be one of them.

BTW, when I came here in the late 1970s I never thought I would see a University here as quickly as we got it and when the University came and somebody would have told me that we would get a medical program here I would have thought they were nuts.

Conditions change. There are up and down cycles. Learn to live with both. Do as your lungs do, inhale once in a while and take out the part you need to keep you alive and exhale the rest. In my opinion we get too many people not doing that on this site.