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Baronjutter posted:I feel a bit ashamed by that article because cook st. village is my hood. Is there a non-paywall version of that somewhere? Also Victoria is specially a city where it's who you know, not what you know. Also all problems on the island are blamed on outsiders. Housing prices? Rich albertans/ontarians. Homeless? They all come from off the island to enjoy our weather and ample social services that border on spoiling them. Victoria isn't what it used to be, it used to be a polite middle class place ad now those outsiders came and ruined it all. They've been saying that for the last 60 years. I paid 99 cents for the article because I was curious. The condensed version: - Guy and his wife move to Victoria, pay $1200 for an ill-behaved dog from a backyard breeder without checking to see if their building even allows dogs (it doesn't). Guy complains a lot about The Rules and the elderly "undead creeps" that are unhappy about the dog. Guy's car gets ticketed and towed for lapsed insurance, but he insists it must be because it's a 1985 Hyundai. - Guy gets fired from his job for loving up his paperwork, but insists it must be because he taught some students how to argue, thus displeasing Canadian academics, who are ""masters of oblique malice". - Guy pays a naturopath $700 for a blood test and is told to eat hazelnuts. He has an allergic reaction and brags to the emergency crew about his PhD. Tries to get a refund from the naturopath and fails. - Guy buys a piece of poo poo boat to live on. The boat has no toilet, guzzles propane, and the dog hates it. Their Hyundai catches on fire for some reason. -Winter arrives and living on a boat sucks, so guy and his wife try to stay at a Salvation Army that is men only. They are turned away. They end up staying at his wife's boss's house. He bitches about her lack of charitibility.. They spend one night and then go spend the winter with his brother in Seattle. There's also a substantial amount of weird and baseless insults about librarians, health care workers, and cops as well. Oh, and he brags about his Wikipedia entry. poor_life_choices.txt
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Jun 20, 2014 02:48
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otter space posted:I paid 99 cents for the article because I was curious. The condensed version: That dude sounds like a serious retard, and he doesn't seem to learn from his bad choices. Apparently Canada is "unfriendly" because reality keeps intruding upon his whims.
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otter space posted:I paid 99 cents for the article because I was curious. The condensed version: Yeah it seemed like a cascade of easily avoidable bad decisions especially paying a quack $700 for treatment and almost dying as a result.
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Jun 20, 2014 02:59
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Oh man, the hazelnut part was the best. I don't doubt that Canada is hard for immigrants (as all new countries are for their immigrants), and of course Victoria can be beyond parochial at the best of times, but seriously - what a litany of bad decisions. I don't think there's any overarching lesson of value about Canada to be had in here.
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Jun 20, 2014 03:14
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God drat I wish that guy had an e/n thread. Also it links back to a previous housing topic: don't live on a loving boat unless you're a married to the sea passionate sailor. Living on a boat isn't a lifestyle, it's a horrible sacrifice people with a passion for sailing endure to afford their hobby.
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Baronjutter posted:God drat I wish that guy had an e/n thread. "A hole in the water into which money is poured"
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Baronjutter posted:God drat I wish that guy had an e/n thread. Not true! If you already have a lot of money, you can live a comfortable life on a large boat/yacht and see lots of the world. It certainly can be a nice, if hideously expensive, lifestyle. But, yeah, people that imagine they're going to do it to save money are retards.
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I feel bad for endorsing this article based on the summary, now, and holy poo poo this guy reminds me of a goon from a few years back.  The EN thread where the guy was living in squalor in a trailer with zero cash but built a sick gaming rig, if you remember it.
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Baronjutter posted:God drat I wish that guy had an e/n thread. The whiny article owned since the guy lists all the bad experiences caused by evil arrogant canadians even though the reader can pretty much tell he's avoiding personal responsibility for bad decisions. Who would know things such as being constantly arrogant around co-workers on a regular basis or going to a quack doctor for a allergy cure would end in tears?
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Lexicon posted:Oh man, the hazelnut part was the best. Hahaha I started reading the new posts from newest backwards, and as soon as I got the hazelnuts, I knew exactly what you guys were talking about. That article is the most fascinating combination of genuine difficulties that newcomers to BC face, with utterly terrible decisions made in pursuit of the "BC dream lifestyle." Rime posted:I feel bad for endorsing this article based on the summary, now, and holy poo poo this guy reminds me of a goon from a few years back. Don't feel bad -- you were half right, and the article's well worth reading. The best part is that it's the same guy who writes the War Nerd articles. Rime posted:The EN thread where the guy was living in squalor in a trailer with zero cash but built a sick gaming rig, if you remember it. The one where he had a 6-year-old daughter he was neglecting at the same time? Apparently that one had a happy ending some months later, though. At least the guy in the article didn't have a kid.
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So is Canada back to not being a terrible shithole, assuming that otter space's summary of the article is accurate?
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Did it? I know he got his account banned and the thread goldmined, at the time, because people weren't sure if he was trolling or just completely out of touch with reality.
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lol, not only did he go see a quack for a allergy test but also listened to the quack when she told him to improve his health he needed to eat even more nuts. So he proceeds to eat a pile of hazelnuts, gets a powerful allergic reaction and only survived since he took some anti-histamine pills during the attack.  Also after his bad experience being surround by Beta Canadians the whole day, he tried teaching at the american university in Iraq and also got fired from the job lol His Phd was on the writings of the famous Marquis de Sade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dolan_(writer) etalian fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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etalian posted:lol, not only did he go see a quack for a allergy test but also listened to the quack when she told him to improve his health he needed to eat even more nuts. The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate Disco > Canada Housing Bubble: Maple-Leaf Lies.
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Rime posted:Did it? I know he got his account banned and the thread goldmined, at the time, because people weren't sure if he was trolling or just completely out of touch with reality. Yes, the goon in question is Floppy Dingo, and he got his life together and re-gained custody of his kids.
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If you cannot hack it in loving Victoria I wouldn't try to head to any other city (because you are deeply incapable of dealing with others)
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JawKnee posted:If you cannot hack it in loving Victoria I wouldn't try to head to any other city (because you are deeply incapable of dealing with others) It's an excellent city to just sort of chill in, maybe get an education, maybe retire. If you have any aspirations or need for work you'll have to move on though. But if you find an ok little gig that pays the bills it's a pretty ok place. It's specially troublesome because our "move to the big city!" city is Vancouver which is also poo poo for careers but way more expensive. I'm only making like 16.50 an hour but I'm doing ok. I'm not ambitious so Victoria suites me fine. If someone offered me $25 an hour to the same work in Vancouver I'd maybe consider it, if my wife got a similar raise. Even then it would be a very tough sell. I'd need to be making at least 100k a year to go to Alberta though and my wife offered a similar job. Even then my main thought is that I found my dream apartment and I don't think I'll ever find another so I'm staying put! It's just too loving nice here. I drive like once a week. gently caress cars, gently caress sprawling cities even if they have ok transit. If I can't live my life mostly on foot I'm not interested in the place. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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Baronjutter posted:It's an excellent city to just sort of chill in, maybe get an education, maybe retire. If you have any aspirations or need for work you'll have to move on though. But if you find an ok little gig that pays the bills it's a pretty ok place. that's true. The few friends I have that still live there are holding on despite not being able to do anything in their career path because they just love it there so much. There's a lot to love though, I get out to the Island as much as possible.
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PT6A posted:Yes, the goon in question is Floppy Dingo, and he got his life together and re-gained custody of his kids. So Floppy Dingo is the new account of This guy, then? Just want to make sure, there never was a satisfactory conclusion to that tale.
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FWIW my husband regularly mentions things that happen on a day to day basis that he's just like "holy poo poo that just wouldn't happen in Australia". The other day we were on Lonsdale in North Van and a semi trailer delivery truck parked our car in since obviously he wasn't going to find a parking spot, so we figured we'd wait until he was done and my husband went and leaned against a telephone pole for a bit and the guy noticed and asked him if he was blocking us in and my husband said yes, the guy immediately apologized and moved his huge rear end truck back so we could get out. My husband couldn't believe it, he was like "holy poo poo, first of all no one in Australia would even bother asking and if they did you'd just get 'yeah mate I'll be done soon just hang on'"
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Rime posted:So Floppy Dingo is the new account of This guy, then? Yes there was. There was a big thread about how he turned his life around and got his kids back. It was his custom title for the longest time, but I can't find the thread.
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Canadians’ household debt eases!  ... as gains in stock markets and real estate prices boosted the Canadians’ cumulative wealth. 
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Rime posted:I feel bad for endorsing this article based on the summary, now, and holy poo poo this guy reminds me of a goon from a few years back. Don't feel bad - it was enormously entertaining!
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JawKnee posted:If you cannot hack it in loving Victoria I wouldn't try to head to any other city (because you are deeply incapable of dealing with others) I'm a fan of Victoria, but I disagree with this. There's not much work, and it's pretty insular and old-boys-club. I can see it being a really challenging place to turn up and make a go of things, at least initially.
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less than three posted:Canadians’ household debt eases! 
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This is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXbO8WFCMjw Best part: the utter disbelief at the stupidity in the guy's voice.
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less than three posted:Canadians’ household debt eases! Its about time people with money caught a break.
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CCTV America? As in China state TV? That's amazing.
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I'll just ... leave this little bit of schadenfreude here: http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/17/alberta-women-532640-in-hole-after-they-failed-to-do-the-math-on-real-estate-investments/
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oof. But a $32k LoC and a $24k car loan generally indicates "badwithmoneyitis"
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quote:Their biggest debt is a carryover from a rental property speculation gone sour. In 2007, Georgia and Ruth borrowed against what was then their mortgage-free home to buy two rental properties. Their total loan was $895,000. That broke down to a $285,000 mortgage on their home and $610,000 against the rental units. Real estate dot txt
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I'll just ... leave this little bit of schadenfreude here: Hahaha gently caress em
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Cultural Imperial posted:Hahaha gently caress em Truly, they deserve to be be poor because they made lovely, stupid choices. I'm going to ask you again: why do you seem to take so much happiness away from seeing people destroy their finances through their own stupidity? I mean, they don't deserve to be bailed out or anything, but I still feel bad for them, that their own stupidity hosed them over so bad. Again, you seem really, really bitter. It is jealousy or what?
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PT6A posted:Truly, they deserve to be be poor because they made lovely, stupid choices. Why do you feel bad for them? The whole point of capitalism is that you're supposed to lose your money if you do retarded things with it.
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ChairMaster posted:Why do you feel bad for them? The whole point of capitalism is that you're supposed to lose your money if you do retarded things with it.
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PT6A posted:Truly, they deserve to be be poor because they made lovely, stupid choices. It's not obvious to you? I'm a pretty cruel hearted and bitter person. And why should other people have nice things if I can't? I'm entitled to it!
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