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Cultural Imperial posted:Baronjutter, do you architecture fetishists ever give any consideration to how lovely your favourite buildings are? For all the loving platitudes paid to frank Lloyd Wright by people spending too much time reading wallpaper , most of his famous houses were miserable shitholes to live in. Have you seen what a terrible mess Norman loving Foster's apt building is? You're just jealous you don't live in a contemporary architectural marvel designed by an artistic genius like HARVARD educated James Cheng, carrying the torch of world class Canadian architecture from Erickson. I love James Cheng and "Vancouversim" with 100% sincerity. PS http://oldurbanist.blogspot.ca/2011/09/skyscrapers-cause-and-effect.html This is a pretty good little article on why vancouverism and skyscrapers surrounded by NIMBY protected single family neighbourhoods is a poo poo show. Also from the lovely construction thread. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/condo-parking-dispute-b-c-couple-upset-over-court-of-appeal-ruling-1.2934642 Even after reading the article I can't quite tell what the gently caress is going on here. Why why there 170k in legal fees related to assigned parking?! What the gently caress is wrong with Vancouver condo owners? Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Feb 1, 2015 |
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Baronjutter posted:Also from the lovely construction thread. Over the last 9 years, they went to court 53 times in front of 32 different judges.
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Just saw a commercial where Don Cherry was trying to sell me a mortgage
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FrozenVent posted:Just saw a commercial where Don Cherry was trying to sell me a mortgage Of all the people who haven't gotten cancer.
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FrozenVent posted:Just saw a commercial where Don Cherry was trying to sell me a mortgage He's the spokesman for Dominion Lending Centre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSR1zUHuwMk
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Baronjutter posted:Also from the lovely construction thread. Asian couple got angry over being forced to use their assigned parking spot and were constantly using the visitor parking spots for their extra cars. The strata won the case again and again in the appeals process.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/albertas-real-estate-woes-threaten-the-rest-of-the-country/article22739292/quote:Alberta’s real estate woes threaten the rest of the country How is having more equity in your house a good thing? Losing more of your own money is good?
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I guess Canadians are desperate to believe they will get a slow price adjustment over time instead of a bubble pop.
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https://twitter.com/hmacbe/status/562060271137480704
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People laugh at bears like Shiller before the US bubble too. How could our amazing credit bubble somehow collapse, it can only go up forever
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In some sick, perverted way I want all these housing market shills to become true believers of their own bullshit and drink the kool aid by buying multiple properties. They can captain the ship as it goes down.
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He wrote "think" when he meant to say "realise". Common typo.
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Furnaceface posted:In some sick, perverted way I want all these housing market shills to become true believers of their own bullshit and drink the kool aid by buying multiple properties. They can captain the ship as it goes down. quote:Well, today I got a government cheque
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Youre a pretty OK dude CI.
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The place I own already lost tens of thousands of dollar in value as far as the City of Edmonton is concerned. I got that update in the beginning of January so I imagine it will get much worse as this year goes on.
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Sovy Kurosei posted:The place I own already lost tens of thousands of dollar in value as far as the City of Edmonton is concerned. I got that update in the beginning of January so I imagine it will get much worse as this year goes on. A bubble despite the name isn't a overnight sort of thing. It's more a longer term statistical trend, the US bubble took 3 years to deflate from the peak craziness going from 2006-2009. The Japanese bubble has been going on everything the 1990s crash.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Of all the people who haven't gotten cancer. Wishing cancer on someone is real loving lovely, regardless of what you think of them otherwise.
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the CMHC website will be pretty handy in tracking the bubble progress: https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/hmiportal/en/#Profile/1/1/Canada
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Sovy Kurosei posted:The place I own already lost tens of thousands of dollar in value as far as the City of Edmonton is concerned. I got that update in the beginning of January so I imagine it will get much worse as this year goes on. Well, according to our Lord and Saviour Nenshi (and his Kalenn Istarion posted:Wishing cancer on someone is real loving lovely, regardless of what you think of them otherwise. Don Cherry is the manifestation of the Canadian id, and it will be a very sad day when he dies. Also: FREE CULTURAL IMPERIAL He may be an rear end, but he's the rear end we deserve.
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un-canadian posting from beyond the grave! Affordable housing in Vancouver within reach: Michael Geller tl:dr: Idiocy.
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Rime posted:tl:dr: Idiocy. Uhhh, the vast majority of those suggestions are good ones.
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get a home inspection and watch out for neighbours: adventures in Canadian housing (now with optional suicide) http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/30/home-sweet-homewreck-this-is-the-worst-reno-story-you-will-ever-hear/
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peter banana posted:get a home inspection and watch out for neighbours: adventures in Canadian housing (now with optional suicide) Yeah, that was posted a couple days ago, and it's insane. I don't understand how an entire half a duplex can be demolished, just leaving the other half hanging there open to the elements and everything I know this thread likes to poo poo on homeowners, but I actually hope she wins the lawsuit and gets everything she asked for, because holy poo poo.
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HookShot posted:Yeah, that was posted a couple days ago, and it's insane. A lot of things are possible if you don't get a permit and then ignore the city telling you to stop what you are doing. Unfortunately even if they win, I doubt they will collect and it won't fix their marriage or the two years of their life.
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Baronjutter posted:PS I'm not really sure what this guy's getting at, but he does seem to have exaggerated several of his numbers. In his first map, he shows Vancouver's downtown core surrounded by the whole metro (and neglects to mention the surrounding dense regions like South False Creek, South Granville, South Cambie). In fact, the city considers those to be extensions of the downtown core, so his figure of 22% of regional jobs being downtown almost certainly includes an area about 2-4 times larger than what he's drawn on the map. And in the second map he shows Parisian-core style density surrounded by farmland. Except, if the population of metro Vancouver (about 2 million) were compressed to Parisian downtown density, it would still take up the whole of the area of the city of Vancouver (which is about the same geographical size as the city of Paris). His map only works if you take the population of the city of Vancouver and ignore the other 3/4 of the regional population. For that matter, when you take the population density of metro Paris it's about 708/km2, while metro Vancouver is about 596/km2. When you get out into the parts of the city bordering farmland the two don't look all that different. The city of Paris is certainly denser than the city of Vancouver (about 3.5 times the people in the same area). But the city of Paris is basically one giant downtown. I reckon if you took the part of Vancouver that's more equivalent to the city of Paris -- say everything west of Arbutus, east of Commercial and north of 16th (a region with very few single-family dwellings), you'd get at most a two-fold difference in density. I mean, I don't disagree about Vancouver's (both city and metro) single-family housing sprawl being problematic. I just don't think it's as bad as that guy's making it out to be. I also really don't see what it has to do with skyscrapers, which in Vancouver are mostly surrounded by areas of low-level apartment buildings anyway.
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ocrumsprug posted:A lot of things are possible if you don't get a permit and then ignore the city telling you to stop what you are doing. I don't think you read the whole thing... he ended up killing himself over it. So yeah, I agree, I doubt she'll be able to collect even if she wins, but that's some criminal poo poo right there.
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HookShot posted:I don't think you read the whole thing... he ended up killing himself over it. It got too depressing to read even before I got to that part.
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The guy who was the head of that contracting company (Ironwood) sounds like a real shining beacon of humanity.
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People think the legal system will protect them, but it really won't. For the most part, lawsuits are a luxury for the rich and the whole system is designed to have a ridiculously high cost of entry and drag on so long that only people with a huge war-chest can win the war of attrition. In a just world the dudes demoing the house without a permit would be in jail and their insurance (if they had any) forced to pay for their hotel every day their house is not safe to live in.
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Rime posted:un-canadian posting from beyond the grave! The shared equity thing is pretty dumb - we have that here in Britain and it's basically what you'd get if you carefully designed a financial product to integrate the worst aspects of renting with the worst aspects of being a mortgaged owner-occupier. Actually, the only two vaguely good suggestions on the list are the ones about building more stacked townhouses and spreading out the density of housing, which should really be combined into a single "build a lot more medium density mid-rise housing" item. LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Feb 2, 2015 |
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ocrumsprug posted:It got too depressing to read even before I got to that part. They separate for a few months, but at the very end things seem to be going well for them. They go on a date and have a kiss, then he goes to a park and kills himself. It's like Battlestar Galactica
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HookShot posted:Yeah, that was posted a couple days ago, and it's insane. Yeah everyone involved there's a loving terrible human being. Building alike that are constructed assuming mutual support or are actually the same building with only legal separation. I hope she wins.
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Baronjutter posted:People think the legal system will protect them, but it really won't. For the most part, lawsuits are a luxury for the rich and the whole system is designed to have a ridiculously high cost of entry and drag on so long that only people with a huge war-chest can win the war of attrition. Even more so When it comes to criminal court. Something like 90% of all criminal cases never see a day of actual trial because most people charged with a crime can't afford to spend three years and tens of thousands of dollars fighting a system that's quite willing to lay charges and 'see what sticks'. Our justice system is a loving joke.
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EvilJoven posted:Even more so When it comes to criminal court. Something like 90% of all criminal cases never see a day of actual trial because most people charged with a crime can't afford to spend three years and tens of thousands of dollars fighting a system that's quite willing to lay charges and 'see what sticks'. Somehow, we are proud of it, because it is slightly less awful than that of the US.
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HookShot posted:Yeah, that was posted a couple days ago, and it's insane. Basically it was a fly by night contractor which was doing work without basic things like a permit being approved and even following basically safety rules. They basically demo the next door house without shoring the adjacent houses. etalian fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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etalian posted:They basically demo the next door house without shoring about the adjacent houses. No, they completely demo it after working on it for a while, and then the other house starts leaning into the hole lol A new builder buys it and builds a better house, sells it for a tidy profit when it's done, the recent widow sells her house at a loss
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As CI has put it in his probated state, "eat poo poo, Calgary": http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...rticle22749863/ quote:Calgary’s housing market has taken a sudden turn downward, raising new concerns about the state of Alberta’s economy in the midst of falling oil prices. Some choice comments (breaking the never-read-the-comments rule): quote:First buy some cheap Energy shares and in a couple of years with the profits buy Real Estate again at bargain prices in Calgary. quote:My God, look at how sage the Globe's talking heads have suddenly become. Calgary housing market declines amidst oil price downturn. Then there is this: quote:It's as if the whole country is in denial and if anyone dares to write anything negative they are anti-Canadian. I've noticed for years that Canadians have to be coddled when it comes to bad news. In which a reply: quote:We just dont want Alberta to turn into a Camden NJ, or an East St. Louis, or downtown Detroit, or west Chicago.....shall I continue?? It's like Albertans think that FortMac is loving Disneyland or some poo poo.
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OSI bean dip posted:As CI has put it in his probated state, "eat poo poo, Calgary": You say that like it's some kind of joke but isn't cross iron mills the biggest mall in North America or something like that? So Airdrie is like the Dubai of the Western Hemisphere.
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OSI bean dip posted:As CI has put it in his probated state, "eat poo poo, Calgary": Pretty much figures that the place with the most commodity bubble exposure will get hosed first and fastest.
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