Given the choice, who wouldn’t prefer to make 100k instead of 42K a year? I’d say that anyone that’s not officially nuts would rather get paid more than less, right? Well, in the British Columbia area, thanks to 20 ongoing mining projects people get to make a living earning more than double what the average person earns in a year. I learned about this by reading a wonderful piece by Jack Caldwell. To read it, click here.