|
Lexicon posted:Most humans like light, especially when they wake up. Fresh air is really nice too.
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 04:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 11, 2024 08:54 |
|
|
Lexicon posted:Most humans like light, especially when they wake up. If only there could be some invention to prevent light from entering a bedroom?
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 05:50
|
|
|
I'm going to oddly enough agree with PT6A. Bedrooms without windows are great for the darkness aspect.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 08:46
|
|
|
Lots of people with sleeping issues in this thread.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 09:03
|
|
|
Baronjutter posted:Fresh air is really nice too. Fresh air is nice, but street noise that comes from an open window is more bad than fresh air is good. Also, I like light when I wake up, but I don't like nighttime light pollution (headlights, streetlights, etc.) when I'm trying to sleep, nor do I particularly like light from the sunrise at 5AM, which is what we get for a good portion of the year in Calgary.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 13:37
|
|
|
Canada added 59k jobs in may. http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/business/canada-adds-59-000-jobs-in-may-1.3101712
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 14:03
|
|
|
That's unexpected good news. Too bad Manitoba's losing jobs, I thought it was supposed to be the shining beacon of Canadian mediocrity for the next year.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 14:35
|
|
|
less than three posted:I'm going to oddly enough agree with PT6A. Bedrooms without windows are great for the darkness aspect. They are also not legal bedrooms: quote:That is why the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) has very clear requirements as it relates to bedroom windows and how a bedroom window can serve three distinct purposes in the home:
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 14:49
|
|
|
The Conservatives set up a $300+ million dollar fund for native Canadians to experience the pride and joy of home ownership. No jokes.. It has succeeded in funding the construction of a whopping 99 homes since 2008.quote:In the last eight years, the fund has grown to $344 million through non-housing investments, with administrative expenses, including stipends and travel, now costing about $3.6 million a year. But the take-up for actual fund-backed mortgages has been dismally low. So they spend a little over 1% of the fund's value in administration. Ok fine, it's just the standard to enrich fund managers. But  at spending $5.4 million to try to convince native Canadians to buy into our totally functional housing market. How does the government defend this poo poo, you ask?quote:"We want to see First Nations individuals to be able to have the pride, the security and the financial stability that comes with owning their own home," said Candice Bergen, minister of state for social development. :vomit: Yeah well what do those unnamed critics know?
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 15:20
|
|
|
eXXon posted:The Conservatives set up a $300+ million dollar fund for native Canadians to experience the pride and joy of home ownership. No jokes.. It has succeeded in funding the construction of a whopping 99 homes since 2008. stopped reading at "market based solution"
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 16:14
|
|
|
i lived in a shared rental apartment with one bedroom with no windows and we got the weirdest loving tenants who wanted to rent that room without fail
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 16:15
|
|
|
Cultural Imperial posted:Canada added 59k jobs in may. I want to believe but I still get the feeling that they are leaving out some key information. They always do. I hate the job release stats, theres so much doctoring that we never see the big picture, like how many of those full time jobs are temporary/seasonal/contract and how many of those jobs are the second/third jobs people have had to take up just to get by.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 18:30
|
|
|
You can be pretty much positive a significant portion of those jobs are seasonal roads/grounds/summer work
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 18:58
|
|
|
Low oil hasn't really sunk in for some oil workers in Alberta. Had a safety guy tell me he would prefer $940 a day but would be willing to settle for $900. He also asked if we had a FN partner he could work through so that he didn't have to pay taxes. I mean, good on him if he can get that much but holy gently caress buddy.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 19:14
|
|
|
less than three posted:I'm going to oddly enough agree with PT6A. Bedrooms without windows are great for the darkness aspect. My wife works straight nights as a nurse, she would love a bedroom without a window (I would hate it).
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 19:17
|
|
|
Just wear sleeping masks.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 19:36
|
|
|
cougar cub posted:Low oil hasn't really sunk in for some oil workers in Alberta. Had a safety guy tell me he would prefer $940 a day but would be willing to settle for $900. He also asked if we had a FN partner he could work through so that he didn't have to pay taxes. It really depends on how he's set up. If he's an independent contractor $900 a day is a pretty good price. Most contractors will have to pay for their truck, room and board, various payroll taxes, fuel, insurance and so forth. Along with that you don't work every day so you need to make a little more on per job contracts than long term contracts. I'd be surprised if he was taking home more than 350 a day honestly (before income taxes).
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 19:48
|
|
|
quote:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/267770785/Ministry-of-Finance-Potential-Implications-of-Reducing-Foreign-Ownership-of-BC-s-Housing-Market
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 19:55
|
|
|
The rich would lose a percentage of their hard-won riches and we just can't have that.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 20:04
|
|
|
Cultural Imperial posted:https://www.scribd.com/doc/267770785/Ministry-of-Finance-Potential-Implications-of-Reducing-Foreign-Ownership-of-BC-s-Housing-Market What the christ?? There's a [stupid] perception that foreign ownership is driving prices higher. The limited data we have is that less than 5% of home sale activity is foreign buyers. Measures to drastically reduce this <5% of the market would have no effect on house prices and $1b less houses would be sold. It will also crash the market by 10% making 60 billion dollars evaporate. In conclusion, gently caress you.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 20:14
|
|
|
Yeah, it's also written by an 11th grader. Anyway, the boc is likely to cut rates again so this is all moot.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 20:18
|
|
|
quote:The data we have does not support this perception. Estimates of foreign investment in BC’s housing market are subject to considerable uncertainty due to a lack of conclusive data. However, industry experts estimate that foreign buyers likely makeup less than 5 per cent of home sales activity in Greater Vancouver. "We don't have any data at all to support an informed stance, but these real estate guys told us it's all ok so I guess we're good." The "it's only 5%" angle is really irritating to me. Yeah that's a small number, but it seems clear to me that even a small amount of purchases that have no relationship to the local economy could significantly distort the market. The government is being willfully disingenuous.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 21:17
|
|
|
Gorau posted:It really depends on how he's set up. If he's an independent contractor $900 a day is a pretty good price. Most contractors will have to pay for their truck, room and board, various payroll taxes, fuel, insurance and so forth. Along with that you don't work every day so you need to make a little more on per job contracts than long term contracts. I'd be surprised if he was taking home more than 350 a day honestly (before income taxes). Naw it was a company role with everything provided
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 21:39
|
|
|
Furnaceface posted:I want to believe but I still get the feeling that they are leaving out some key information. They always do. I hate the job release stats, theres so much doctoring that we never see the big picture, like how many of those full time jobs are temporary/seasonal/contract and how many of those jobs are the second/third jobs people have had to take up just to get by. The key info is that anytime a government says that X number of jobs were created, they leave out the fact that they're the most shittiest, dead-end, minimum wage, soul-shattering jobs possible.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2015 22:11
|
|
|
jm20 posted:
hahaha yeah people are so stupid not being able to predict getting laid off 26 years in the future and having their property destroyed by landslides and the insurance company weasling out of paying up hahaha gently caress that guy so much what an rear end in a top hat.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 00:08
|
|
I thought houses only go up in value, why am I being punished
|
Bloody Hedgehog posted:The key info is that anytime a government says that X number of jobs were created, they leave out the fact that they're the most shittiest, dead-end, minimum wage, soul-shattering jobs possible. also includes things like part time time jobs
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 01:00
|
|
|
ZShakespeare posted:hahaha yeah people are so stupid not being able to predict getting laid off 26 years in the future and having their property destroyed by landslides and the insurance company weasling out of paying up hahaha gently caress that guy so much what an rear end in a top hat. It's easy to gloss over the facts and think someone else caused his financial problems, but if you actually make a timeline you might come to another conclusion which the article glossed over. The guy had 3 years between getting laid off and the landslide, so this is hardly a situation of circumstance rather than woeful financial incompetence. He spent either 3 or 4 years getting a nother job and will certainly not be able to pay back his amount owing over his useful working life. Read your home insurance policy, and you would in fact know landslides are typically never covered either. Anyways, it sucks for him, but he was the executor own his own financial downfall.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 01:30
|
|
|
ZShakespeare posted:hahaha yeah people are so stupid not being able to predict getting laid off 26 years in the future and having their property destroyed by landslides and the insurance company weasling out of paying up hahaha gently caress that guy so much what an rear end in a top hat. The particular charm of this thread is that it's evenly divided between interesting discussions of the economy and sadbrains masturbating to financial distress porn.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 03:10
|
|
|
Helsing posted:The particular charm of this thread is that it's evenly divided between interesting discussions of the economy and sadbrains masturbating to financial distress porn. I thought you would be the last person to tut-tut us about sniggering at some dude investing ~50% of his net worth in a recreational property.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 03:31
|
|
|
Helsing posted:The particular charm of this thread is that it's evenly divided between interesting discussions of the economy and sadbrains masturbating to financial distress porn.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 04:18
|
|
|
So Ghost Lake, a place which I have only previously visited in order to use as a racetrack, is being kept deliberately low as part of flood mitigation measures. Naturally, this impacts property values in the area, since the lake is no longer as lakey as it once was. Seems like a hard decision to make. Flood a city of over a million people, causing untold catastrophic damage, or make a responsible infrastructure decision and tell a few cottages to fix their wells and buy a smaller boat.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 04:19
|
|
|
Bloody Hedgehog posted:The key info is that anytime a government says that X number of jobs were created, they leave out the fact that they're the most shittiest, dead-end, minimum wage, soul-shattering jobs possible. Someone's gotta create those jobs now that TFWs aren't there to take them.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 04:35
|
|
|
Mederlock posted:You can be pretty much positive a significant portion of those jobs are seasonal roads/grounds/summer work Or film jobs. I almost... Almost made it back to LA... Until the show I was supposed to work on got shifted to a vendor in Vancouver. So back I go. That means I'm getting counted twice as a created film job. I got to dig up that bc film calculator where you can plug in numbers and see how much money they'll give you to do any work in bc. At least my new furnished rental is a month to month. I'll stick around bc long enough to get a larger downpayment on that desert ranch house I always wanted in the middle of nowhere in the southwest us. Big K of Justice fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jun 6, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 06:01
|
|
|
http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/b...han-top-earnersquote:
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 07:02
|
|
|
let's get excited over wealth gains tied to a high illiquid asset.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 07:57
|
|
|
The contemporary definition of wealth is loving hilarious. Sure, it might be correct in a strictly academic sense but it makes dick all of sense when you apply it to actual people.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 08:18
|
|
|
Don't forget wealth effects. House went up in value(on paper), lets go shopping darlings. Chanel, Prada, LV, we've got equity darling.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 09:08
|
|
|
It drives me crazy. You become a paper millionaire. Sell your loving house and live off the interest you morons.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 13:56
|
|
Cultural Imperial posted:It drives me crazy. You become a paper millionaire. Sell your loving house and live off the interest you morons. It's pretty hilarious, if you sell and get 1.1m after taxes and fees and such and you invest that a yearly return of 6% gets you 66k a year. There are plenty of places where you can live quite comfortably off of that, or you could get a job too and have two incomes and reinvest some of that money and retire at 50 and live the good life until your vices kill you.
|
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 14:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 11, 2024 08:54 |
|
|
eXXon posted:
It surprises me that people think that home ownership endows a family with these things rather than being a consequence of them.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2015 15:35
|
|