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Bilirubin posted:hahaha that is such a university story They took the OCP headquarters design and applied it to a whole uni campus
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SFU is even uglier inside than outside.
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Jan 20, 2015 05:42
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blah_blah posted:SFU is even uglier inside than outside. Their newest building is "okay". It has wood in it and windows. It's not all concrete. AQ is the most depressing place thought, it feels like you're always walking to a torture room when you're walking through there.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:15
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Terebus posted:Their newest building is "okay". It has wood in it and windows. It's not all concrete. AQ is the most depressing place thought, it feels like you're always walking to a torture room when you're walking through there. It also has this weird mechanical smell to it.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:15
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I'm pretty sure I have some kind of architectural stockholm syndrome with SFU now. I know it's terrible but I still like having a beer on the patio at the highland
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Jan 20, 2015 06:28
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I just associate it with Stargate and many other fine examples of Vancouver-scify.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:29
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Cultural Imperial posted:SFU is good for two reasons. Last chance university for everyone who grew up in Burnaby and best downhill MTB bus shuttle circuit in the world. lol never thought of that There is that climbing wall built into the side of one of the buildings that was kind of cool too
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Jan 20, 2015 06:30
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Bilirubin posted:lol never thought of that I don't think it's there any more, I looked for it a year or so ago and couldn't find it
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Jan 20, 2015 06:31
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JawKnee posted:I'm pretty sure I have some kind of architectural stockholm syndrome with SFU now. The patio is nice, the pub itself is astonishingly bad. How it's possible to run a loss year after year as basically the only place on campus serving alcohol is something I don't think I'll ever be able to understand: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/more-money-for-their-beer/
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Jan 20, 2015 06:35
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The last time I ever drank at the mountain shadow, the bar manager was "djing". He had the music turned up so loving loud I had to go ask him to turn it the gently caress down. There was no one else in the loving bar except myself and my friends. gently caress that place. Sadly it's the only place in vancouver with kilkenny on tap except for those loving UDF exiles in gastown.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:37
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blah_blah posted:The patio is nice, the pub itself is astonishingly bad. How it's possible to run a loss year after year as basically the only place on campus serving alcohol is something I don't think I'll ever be able to understand: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/more-money-for-their-beer/ Exact same story at Koerners at UBC. If you can't run a business under those sort of conditions...
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OK so I have to ask this question: UBC is usually considered this garden campus, and it is quite lovely I admit. But the rats, holy poo poo, they have overrun the place! So is SFU rat free? Because I can see that being a selling pointLexicon posted:Exact same story at Koerners at UBC. If you can't run a business under those sort of conditions... That's where I first noticed the serious rat problem! (also RIP Koerners)
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Jan 20, 2015 06:40
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Cultural Imperial posted:The last time I ever drank at the mountain shadow, the bar manager was "djing". He had the music turned up so loving loud I had to go ask him to turn it the gently caress down. There was no one else in the loving bar except myself and my friends. The Lennox has Kilkenny on tap
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Jan 20, 2015 06:43
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I remember going back to the campus pub at U of C after I graduated and was back at the university on unrelated matters. After five fruitless minutes of waiting to be served a beer, at the bar, during an off time, I remembered that I wasn't a broke student any more and could just go drink at a bar that wasn't poo poo. As for McGill's pub, I could never figure out when the pricks were open. They were certainly open some time, because I lived a block away and they made a fuckload of noise, but I'll be damned if they were ever open when I fancied a pint and wouldn't have preferred going anywhere else. Can anyone enlighten me as to what its schedule actually was? EDIT: According to the website, 11AM to 12AM or 2AM depending on the day. Why the gently caress was the door locked all the time?
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Jan 20, 2015 06:44
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Lexicon posted:Exact same story at Koerners at UBC. If you can't run a business under those sort of conditions... koerners is back, and serves good beer now. but I won't forget the bar I climbed over the back fence of to escape with my beer
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Jan 20, 2015 06:45
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PT6A posted:I remember going back to the campus pub at U of C after I graduated and was back at the university on unrelated matters. After five fruitless minutes of waiting to be served a beer, at the bar, during an off time, I remembered that I wasn't a broke student any more and could just go drink at a bar that wasn't poo poo. Which one? Thompson House was always open when I needed it
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Jan 20, 2015 06:46
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Lexicon posted:Exact same story at Koerners at UBC. If you can't run a business under those sort of conditions... Yeah Koerner's used to be awful but was redone after being closed for a long time (afaik it had something to do with serving undergrads one too many times) and now they actually have good food and good beer. They are still overpriced and probably lose money but it's miles better than it used to be. Cultural Imperial posted:The last time I ever drank at the mountain shadow, the bar manager was "djing". He had the music turned up so loving loud I had to go ask him to turn it the gently caress down. There was no one else in the loving bar except myself and my friends. The Mountain Shadow is awful but I have some fond memories of grabbing afternoon beers there and playing cards with a friend who lived literally across the street from it. Their clientele was awful though, so anytime that it wasn't completely empty it was a terrible place to be. blah_blah fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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Jan 20, 2015 06:55
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Bilirubin posted:OK so I have to ask this question: UBC is usually considered this garden campus, and it is quite lovely I admit. But the rats, holy poo poo, they have overrun the place! So is SFU rat free? Because I can see that being a selling point Unfortunately SFU started selling high-end condos on campus as well, so it's just as overrun these days. 
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Jan 20, 2015 06:59
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Bilirubin posted:Which one? Thompson House was always open when I needed it Which was that? The only one I ever knew of was Gerts, which was in the basement of the Shatner building, and never seemed to be open.
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Jan 20, 2015 07:01
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Thomson House is for grad students/faculty only, if I recall correctly. As for Gerts, I've never been since there were way better options around, but from what I've heard the experience varied from "sort of ok" to "maintenance staff are going there to get wasted and start fights".
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Jan 20, 2015 07:06
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you go to mcgill and you go drink at gerts #smh
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Jan 20, 2015 07:07
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Yeah I dunno never went to Gerts. Also only went to Peel Pub once to watch a game and ironically enjoy pizzaghetti. There were a lot of better options in Montreal. I lived on the near east side so L'Aimere a Boire was a favourite
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Jan 20, 2015 07:20
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Cultural Imperial posted:you go to mcgill and you go drink at gerts #smh No, that's the point, I never did! Probably happier for it, too. Never went to the Peel Pub either. My haunts were McKibbins, Stogies, La Casa del Habano, and Dieu du Ciel!. To be honest, there's always a better option than the campus pub, if you have the time to get off campus. If you want a lunch beer and a quick bite to eat between classes, it really depends on how close your campus is to anything else. Not a problem in Montreal, but a massive problem in Calgary.
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Y'all are gonna love this tyee story about Vancouverites turning mansios into collective housing:quote:As Leung and Paulsson offer a tour of the sprawling premises, a third roommate, Phoenix Muranetz, joins us in their self-styled meditation room, one of numerous common areas. Her last collective living experiment was in another Vancouver mansion with 11 other adults. This person can't be real.
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Jan 20, 2015 07:25
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My best friend is a paramedic and he says that one of the most notorious frequent flyers is this mansion in Shaughnessy which has been converted into a rooming house inhabited exclusive my aging homosexual baby boomers who can't stop doing drugs. It's like a conveyor belt of heroin overdoses.
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Cultural Imperial posted:My best friend is a paramedic and he says that one of the most notorious frequent flyers is this mansion in Shaughnessy which has been converted into a rooming house inhabited exclusive my aging homosexual baby boomers who can't stop doing drugs. It's like a conveyor belt of heroin overdoses. I appreciate you adding another dimension of bigotry to your routine, it was getting a bit stale. Pray tell, were they Chinese homosexuals?
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Jan 20, 2015 07:34
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Have rents gone up in Canada? They've basically been pretty flat (growing at 2/3% a year) in Australia.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Have rents gone up in Canada? They've basically been pretty flat (growing at 2/3% a year) in Australia. Rents and rent increases vary wildly city-by-city in both countries.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Have rents gone up in Canada? They've basically been pretty flat (growing at 2/3% a year) in Australia. This is what passes for rental statistics in canada. A government organization that's more interested in making money securitizing mortgages.
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eXXon posted:Y'all are gonna love this tyee story about Vancouverites turning mansios into collective housing: This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about yesterday. It's hilarious that we're now lauding the same poo poo we villainized for nearly a century, that just because the excesses of capitalism are driving this sort of desperation makes it something to be desired or respected. 
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Jan 20, 2015 07:52
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Is the issue with this that it doesn't really solve a housing issue? Because the most offensive thing to me about McMansions is the amount and extent of conspicuous consumption. No one needs a house that large for 3-5 people or a single family. The fact that some people are subverting this model is good to me. Maybe I don't see a problem with living communally though.
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etalian posted:It owns when people spend massive amounts of money, on for the marriage to end in a divorce 1 or 2 years later. My wife's boss is my favourite case of this. Her fiance is a big shot REALTOR or something along those lines. Totally loaded, spends like there is no tomorrow. Oh and he's Italian too, so of course it's a big wedding. They had sunk over 50K into the wedding before she called the whole thing off. I was looking forward to going to this monstrosity too.
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I`ve been to Italian and Greek weddings where the bride and groom would easily make 40-50k in cash wedding gifts. They always stupidly treat it as a break even proposition, but my wife and I did it sensibly and pocketed enough to put a downpayment on a house.
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Saltin posted:I`ve been to Italian and Greek weddings where the bride and groom would easily make 40-50k in cash wedding gifts. They always stupidly treat it as a break even proposition, but my wife and I did it sensibly and pocketed enough to put a downpayment on a house. Oh yeah for sure, they definitely were going to make mad money. Except she called the wedding off lol.
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who was asking about rents?BlogTO posted:Many Toronto renters spend half pay cheques on rent quote:According to the report, the renters' statistic applies to non-one per cent (actually non 60%) of workers, while those in the upper bracket are bleeding cash at similar volumes to mortgages and other home owning fees that people like myself can't even begin to comprehend. The heart of the matter is that if you're only paying half your income on housing, the landlord hasn't left you without heat for weeks at a time, and you don't have bed bugs, congratulations, you're doing okay in Toronto. For now. Ugh. So done with this city. So done with this economy. So done with this country.
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peter banana posted:Ugh. So done with this city. So done with this economy. So done with this country. 
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http://www.td.com/document/PDF/economics/special/GTA_Housing.pdf Lotsa good charts and graphs here. Chart 14 shows single detached and condo prices separately, courtesy of the CREA. Even they can't bullshit their way out of the fact that condo prices are nearly flat. Unfortunately, it doesn't really show the distribution of housing costs as a fraction of income. The affordability index is kind of similar but not the same.
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Leaving was the best thing I ever did. gently caress this country.
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Nobody should ever pay more than 10-15% of their yearly intake on rent. It is a rule I have stuck to for half a decade now.
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peter banana posted:who was asking about rents? Los Angeles is the same way. Most expensive city in the United States for both renters and owners. But now it seems it might not be the most expensive in North America. OSI bean dip posted:Nobody should ever pay more than 10-15% of their yearly intake on rent. It is a rule I have stuck to for half a decade now. Truf, although now I can't move without a huge wage increase to keep the streak alive.
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