So I was just looking at the Lazard website for more information on their recruitment cycle (Lazard is one of the few banks I think might be nice to work for) -- not that I haven't already looked at the same page every couple of weeks for the past several months, you know, because I love pointlessly worrying about future career stuff -- and I got to thinking: "I wouldn't have to work with them in New York. I could actually work for them in Montreal or Toronto (or a bunch of other gross cities that I'd not be interested in)."
Then, so you see how the thought process and wheels-spinning works (keeping in mind that Lazard doesn't even recruit at Yale School of Management, let alone the law school, and let alone people with NO finance experience) I was thinking things like: "Well Toronto is more developed and probably has better weather, but Montreal is more bilingual, and I could probably get more for my money there in terms of real estate and services." Then I got to thinking: "I wonder which city really does have the best weather? New York, Montreal, or Toronto?"
Well of course the next logical thing to do was look up the average monthly highs and lows for each, but I could only find them in celsius, so I first mentally made the high/low averages and then (learning a new Excel skill!) inputed them into an Excel spreadsheet and converted all the average monthly celsius temperatures with a handy formula so that I could graph them in fahrenheit.
As you can see from the graph I've copied, here, the exercise was (for more than just the obvious reasons) pointless lol. My expert analysis is basically that the weather in all three cities more or less sucks lol. I think when you factor-in general political progressiveness, respect for gay rights, and universal health care, I'd probably take both Toronto and Montreal over New York.
Oh Canada...
VC
PS: If you look closely at the graph you can see that I accidentally spelled Toronto, in the original Excel sheet, "Tontonto." Oops! Tontonto here I come!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Procrastination: What North American Finance Centre Has the Best Weather?