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etalian posted:From the pics can't stop lolling how a nerdy dude thought it would be a good idea paying a premium to live in a mobile home park. Turns out Canadians are not as smart as we like to think we are. Especially when it comes to being smart with money.
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PT6A posted:$900/month lot fee? gently caress me, that's quite a bit of money for a tiny bit of land. It's right next to the most expensive neighbourhood in Canada. But it's still a shithole. Here's a labelled map for those not familiar But it does have open year round washrooms!
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Why would anyone want to live in Vancouver in the first place? If there's one thing CI and I can agree on, it's that Vancouver is full of assholes
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Reverse Centaur posted:It's right next to the most expensive neighbourhood in Canada. But it's still a shithole. Here's a labelled map for those not familiar Haha, he probably works downtown and has to cross Lions Gate. That bridge is an utter nightmare. He could have just gotten a downtown apartment for an extra $100-$150 a moth in rent with actual indoor plumbing.
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PT6A posted:Why would anyone want to live in Vancouver in the first place? If there's one thing CI and I can agree on, it's that Vancouver is full of assholes Well technically it's North Vancouver.
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Terebus posted:Haha, he probably works downtown and has to cross Lions Gate. That bridge is an utter nightmare. He could have just gotten a downtown apartment for an extra $100-$150 a moth in rent with actual indoor plumbing. but it has amenities like being close to a industrial park, sewage plant, flood plain and also lots of street noise at night.
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Terebus posted:Haha, he probably works downtown and has to cross Lions Gate. That bridge is an utter nightmare. He could have just gotten a downtown apartment for an extra $100-$150 a moth in rent with actual indoor plumbing. Yeah, my father in law was interested in the Evelyn development up the hill on Taylor Way and I urged him not to buy there because he won't be able to get out of his house for several hours around 9am and 5pm. $2,000,000 doesn't get you the type of lifestyle it used to. OSI bean dip posted:Well technically it's North Vancouver. If we're getting really technical it's actually prestigious West Vancouver. The DNV border ends east of the reserve, on Whonoak road, south of Marine. And also the north shore is the least ruined part of the metro at this point.
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Are rents really that high in Vancouver?
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on the left posted:At 3.5% interest and assuming land rent doesn't increase, with the same payments, dude could have bought a $686,000 piece of property ($900 monthly payment + 40k down) instead. No? More like $2,900 plus taxes and insurance.
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etalian posted:Are rents really that high in Vancouver? Here's the only CL listing I could find close to it, a 1,200 sq ft basement suite: http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/nvn/apa/4859377904.html $2,350 including utilities Four blocks further away from all the lovely stuff though.
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:No? You are right, I calculated interest wrong.
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This thread is a living testament to Vancouverites lack of ability to critically evaluate the value of property. Let's not act too surprised about this person and their expensive camper trailer.
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While tiny houses are indeed completely impractical within the zoning reality of the lower mainland, some of you guys are also just being smug assholes. I watched it get built and it's a solid piece of craftsmanship. Her original estimated costs were $500/month to park it over there, I wonder what caused the rates to spike up so high.
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Rime posted:While tiny houses are indeed completely impractical within the zoning reality of the lower mainland, some of you guys are also just being smug assholes. I watched it get built and it's a solid piece of craftsmanship. Her original estimated costs were $500/month to park it over there, I wonder what caused the rates to spike up so high. I hope no one ever steals your boat
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$500/month still seems very high, though.
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Rime posted:While tiny houses are indeed completely impractical within the zoning reality of the lower mainland, some of you guys are also just being smug assholes. I watched it get built and it's a solid piece of craftsmanship. Her original estimated costs were $500/month to park it over there, I wonder what caused the rates to spike up so high. I am not an expert on the movement, but I suspect if you are paying comparable money a month to an apartment for your plumbingless van/shack/trailer, you may have missed the point of something.
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on the left posted:You are right, I calculated interest wrong. You're lucky I'm not a realtor, or you'd have the shiniest crack shack on the block right now.
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That reddit thread is full of examples of studios cheaper than that outhouse.
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Cultural Imperial posted:https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/status/558607884574289920?s=09 Yeah, make everyone buy one of those neato tiny homes before they can buy a regular house. No one gets grandfathered in!
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ocrumsprug posted:I am not an expert on the movement, but I suspect if you are paying comparable money a month to an apartment for your plumbingless van/shack/trailer, you may have missed the point of something. Very much. The point is to bypass zoning laws in rural areas by being in impermanent structure, which obviously doesn't work in this city.
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Cultural Imperial posted:That reddit thread is full of examples of studios cheaper than that outhouse. That's not fair, at least in an outhouse you can poo poo and not have to worry about later dumping the piss and poo poo out of your ersatz toilet.
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Long time lurker in this thread, and a rentailure This happened to someone I know: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/craigslist-luxury-rental-scam-victims-stage-citizen-s-arrest-in-vancouver-1.2928845 Should we expect more scams in this hot housing climate, or this a Vancouver only type problem? (the problem of paying multiple thousands of dollars up front before moving into a suite). edit: also the VPD suck, but perhaps this is for another subforum.. ja_raul fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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ja_raul posted:Should we expect more scams in this hot housing climate, or this a Vancouver only type problem? (the problem of paying multiple thousands of dollars up front before moving into a suite).
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LemonDrizzle posted:That scam's pretty old, I've heard of it being run in the UK and the states in the past. Craigslist rental scams are depressingly common but normally they are run remotely with the "landlord" laiming to be out of country and asking the victim to wire money (or mail it to an intermediary) for the deposit and rent. Having someone actually tour the place and set up a physical office is pretty goddamn ballsey. Also that's some serious bullshit that the VPD threatened them with arrest for confinement when the guy was carrying with multiple forms of ID all under different names. I could understand an admonishment over risking their own skin but that's about it.
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The VPD hates being made to look incompetent in the face of a serious crime, as their autonomy has been under threat ever since Pickton. Expect a renewed push to integrate them into the RCMP now that Chu stepped down today.
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http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/23/2099282/the-bank-of-canadas-rate-cutting-folly/quote:The Canadian central bank surprised markets this week by cutting its base rate by 25 basis points. Jon Hartley, co-founder of Real Time Macroeconomics, argues that the Canadian central bank’s decision to cut interest rates will exacerbate the Canadian housing bubble and wasn’t needed to offset the fall in the oil price.
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/23/2099282/the-bank-of-canadas-rate-cutting-folly/
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cowofwar posted:Election year What? Again? This stupid country...
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/23/2099282/the-bank-of-canadas-rate-cutting-folly/ remember how everyone though everything was fine before the US real estate bubble burst?
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# ? Jan 24, 2015 00:25 |
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Practically everyone I know thinks this is insane, where are all these people who are celebrating this? Vancouver?
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Kafka Esq. posted:Practically everyone I know thinks this is insane, where are all these people who are celebrating this? Vancouver? Obviously all those people you know need a better PR department. The mortgage brokers and realtors have spoken, and it isn't like Global is going to fact check when there is a press release to read on air.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/powell-river-launches-youtube-campaign-to-appeal-to-young-residents-1.2921838 I ain't gonna lie. I thought twice about this when I read the article. For about 5 seconds. get the gently caress out of here scott randolph lol loving townies in small town bc namaste friends fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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just me being dumb.
B33rChiller fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/powell-river-launches-youtube-campaign-to-appeal-to-young-residents-1.2921838 Ok, are they paying people to spam forums and poo poo about Powell River? In the last few days I've suddenly seen so many forum and news article and facebook comments talking about how amazing Powell River is. On Victoria's mayor's facebook page there's this one dude posting like a loving robot on every comment about how Victoria is looking more and more like a "chinese factory" because it's all skyscrapers and there's no air or open space anymore and everyone needs to move to Powell River because they have nature and open space and fresh air. I've seen people on forums register just to go on a rant about Powell River being amazing. But it's always sort of angry, it's always in reply to some news or event and them making GBS threads all over what ever it being talked about then talking about how Powell River doesn't have this or that problem. Are they paying idiots to do this as some sort of attempt at social media? Also 2 years ago I had some family move there to make a go at it. Cheap housing, ok little town, maybe they can have a go at it, sure beats Victoria prices! Nope, they're back. No jobs, no hope there.
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Baronjutter posted:Powell River because they have nature and open space and fresh air Lol this Powell River?
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The Tomahawk restaurant on Phillip sort of near there really owns though. They have a burger available that has like four different kinds of meat on it, including a hot dog.
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Go god, Powell River is in the middle of no where. Is that one of those outposts you keep around to light a beacon in case Yetis invade from Yukon?
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MickeyFinn posted:Go god, Powell River is in the middle of no where. Is that one of those outposts you keep around to light a beacon in case Yetis invade from Yukon?
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MickeyFinn posted:Is that one of those outposts you keep around to light a beacon in case Yetis invade from Yukon? lol Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/powell-river-launches-youtube-campaign-to-appeal-to-young-residents-1.2921838 only oil bucks would make people willingly move to a rural small town congrats on attracting millenials Powell River! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTOY9vMHN7U https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjnjuyV43lMB-D-7SXWMiQ etalian fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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