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Bathtub in master bedroom is a thing, dude. That one is uglier than most, but the concept holds up.
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Baronjutter posted:
take a shower while your roommate stares at you.
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Feb 3, 2016 01:54
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One bath, and that carpet's gonna be a sodden, mildewy disaster.
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Government backs real estate bubble because otherwise 0% GDP growth. Bubbles are better than stagflation from the point of view of the rich. When poo poo is flat no one makes money, during bubbles you can still transfer wealth and make money.
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Feb 3, 2016 01:56
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Freezer posted:Thanks for the article. I've always wondered why housing bubbles formed and burst in countries like Spain and Ireland but not in Germany, which is arguably the best econony in Europe and assumably a very desirable place to live in. I guess it helps when governments strive to discourage retarded financial attitudes, as opposed to encouraging them. Yeah the german housing policy is to focus keeping home and rent prices down. The German housing policy also encourages renting through things such as more tenant rights and also rental lease increase caps.
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Subjunctive posted:In World's Best-Run Economy, House Prices Keep Falling -- Because That's What House Prices Are Supposed To Do Goddamn, now the Germans are genociding people's home equity?
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leftist heap posted:Goddamn, now the Germans are genociding people's home equity? Wait until you hear about the lebensrenovation...
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Feb 3, 2016 02:05
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The homeequicaust
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Feb 3, 2016 02:40
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As long as we get a realtor pogrom
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Jumpingmanjim posted:The homeequicaust The Home Shoahning.
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I was reading an article this evening about the province putting up 150 Syrian refugee (families?) in a Surrey hotel, and it was talking about how the government was now going to struggle to find permanent rentals for all of them in Vancouver. Oh boy, the waiting list for BC housing is eight years and I'd be surprised if there's even 150 refugee-affordable and family-sized units for rent in the lower mainland right now. There are local families paying most of their income for deathtrap tenements here because the alternative is homelessness, but the government has no interest in doing anything about that. This seems like a remarkably poorly planned situation from a variety of standpoints. 
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Rime posted:There are local families paying most of their income for deathtrap tenements here because the alternative is homelessness, but the government has no interest in doing anything about that. What would an interested government do about that? Subsidize them relocating to Edmonton? The US seems to place refugees more often in smaller cities rather than the megatropolises, I wonder if Canada is too urbanized for that.
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What are the Can Debt thread's general thoughts on Stag & Doe parties? This might be a regional thing in Ontario, but it's basically a fundraiser for a couple's wedding. The couple gets a venue, like a Legion hall. They sell tickets for the event, then collect more money through prize raffles, table games, cheap booze, 50/50 draws, etc. I know weddings can be expensive, but gently caress me. Adding another event and $$ on you guests seems like a weak move.
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what the gently caress white trash poo poo is that we do it the old fashioned way with credit cards and helocs motherfucker
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They're pretty big here in Manitoba, except they're called wedding socials. They seem pretty stressful for the people organizing it, and the constant barrage of friends/family/complete strangers badgering you to buy tickets for whatever social is happening that month can get pretty annoying.
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Ashley Madison posted:What are the Can Debt thread's general thoughts on Stag & Doe parties? This might be a regional thing in Ontario, but it's basically a fundraiser for a couple's wedding. "Socials" are creeping to Saskatchewan from Manitoba.
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In surrey they exchange dowries.
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Subjunctive posted:What would an interested government do about that? Subsidize them relocating to Edmonton? I have no idea, I just think it's going to be rough placing that many refugees reasonably fast when it takes close to a decade to place any of our own in a timely fashion. The government used to have an interest in holding social housing developments and ensuring a basic stock level / subsidies were in place for a decent number of low income families. In the past ten years it's sold most of these for condo developments and told the poor to die in the gutter.
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Subjunctive posted:In World's Best-Run Economy, House Prices Keep Falling -- Because That's What House Prices Are Supposed To Do Holy poo poo. I have an EU citizen for a spouse. Why am I sitting in Ontario like a dingaling?
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Coxswain Balls posted:They're pretty big here in Manitoba, except they're called wedding socials. They seem pretty stressful for the people organizing it, and the constant barrage of friends/family/complete strangers badgering you to buy tickets for whatever social is happening that month can get pretty annoying. The worst part of socials for me is that everyone claims how super special and cool theirs will be then it ends up being the same thing as every other social. Overpriced drinks, people's parents dancing to a DJ who from the 80s, a silent auction including lottery tree and several baskets filled with things you would never want outside a social setting and cold cuts just before midnight.
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Don't forget the stale no name brand party mix on paper plates.
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Ashley Madison posted:What are the Can Debt thread's general thoughts on Stag & Doe parties? This might be a regional thing in Ontario, but it's basically a fundraiser for a couple's wedding. I dont think I'd ever heard of a stag and doe before around 3rd year in Waterloo. It is decidedly not a thing in Toronto, where rehearsal dinners certainly do exist. gently caress all of that though, I want to get married on a beach where the main event is paintball go-karting, followed by downhill skating. In fact let's skip the wedding, can someone invest in a paintball go-karting venue? I want to legally shoot people while driving without risking serious injury.
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eXXon posted:I dont think I'd ever heard of a stag and doe before around 3rd year in Waterloo. It is decidedly not a thing in Toronto, where rehearsal dinners certainly do exist. The majority of stag and does I've been to were in Toronto, but it's a rural thing too. It's a weird thing and I loving hate them, you always feel super obligated to go. If you want beaches, go karting and paintball come to beautiful Wasaga Beach. Everyone can even get home to Toronto that night.
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eXXon posted:I dont think I'd ever heard of a stag and doe before around 3rd year in Waterloo. It is decidedly not a thing in Toronto, where rehearsal dinners certainly do exist. gently caress go-karts. I want paintball and quads.
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DariusLikewise posted:The worst part of socials for me is that everyone claims how super special and cool theirs will be then it ends up being the same thing as every other social. Overpriced drinks, people's parents dancing to a DJ who from the 80s, a silent auction including lottery tree and several baskets filled with things you would never want outside a social setting and cold cuts just before midnight. I think if I don't attend the social/stag & doe, then I probably won't be invited to the wedding! Suddenly every old college classmate or workmate is getting hitched. That's a net win for me on the money side.
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Ashley Madison posted:I think if I don't attend the social/stag & doe, then I probably won't be invited to the wedding! Suddenly every old college classmate or workmate is getting hitched. That's a net win for me on the money side. You can also be solely invited to the stag and doe and not to the wedding.
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eXXon posted:gently caress all of that though, I want to get married on a beach where the main event is paintball go-karting, followed by downhill skating. In fact let's skip the wedding, can someone invest in a paintball go-karting venue? I want to legally shoot people while driving without risking serious injury. We kind of did that. Instead of paintball go-karting it was rafting ottawa river rapids but there was the beach wedding. People got injured, it was rad and a good time overall. We didn't do a stag and doe but I don't mind them for weddings that have open bars, I just think of it as paying my bar bill in advance.
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From the today in history section on the front page of wikipedia:quote:On this day...
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Jumpingmanjim posted:From the today in history section on the front page of wikipedia: Please dont get this threads hopes up, thats just cruel.  peter banana posted:If you want beaches, go karting and paintball come to beautiful Wasaga Beach. Everyone can even get home to Toronto that night. Unless its Sunday in the summer. Something like 1 million people travel up the 400 every weekend in the summer and the traffic is so bad every Friday (northbound) and Sunday (southbound) that you can expect to spend no less than 4 hours trapped on a single stretch of road. Bunch of dumb motherfucking Toronto people buying million dollar cabins and cottages in Muskoka despite already being balls deep in debt buying that million dollar condo in Etobicoke.
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lol the "cabin" gently caress all you eastern morons
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Ashley Madison posted:What are the Can Debt thread's general thoughts on Stag & Doe parties? This might be a regional thing in Ontario, but it's basically a fundraiser for a couple's wedding. I didn't realize these existed until I became friends with a farmer's kid in Ontario. Then he invited me to his Stag and doe but not his wedding so we're not really friends anymore. That was kind of the last straw in him avoiding all his University friends to go be a full time blue collar outskirts of Stratford dude. But I went for old time's sake because I didn't have anything better to do. It was redneck as poo poo. There was a raffle for who could hit a nail into a stump in the least hammer hits, two bucks a nail. The DJ was his uncle who they said was a wildman and the best dj in the area, but seemed like a fifty year old wedding who just head nodded while playing pop country. The groom's dad might have had an IQ of 80 on a good day. I tried to talk about working landscaping, but they could tell I was a poser. This was some lifer blue collar poo poo.
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Before my wife and I moved we were consistently having to take half days every Friday if we wanted to travel outside the city limits on a long weekend. It's part of why we moved.
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Ashley Madison posted:What are the Can Debt thread's general thoughts on Stag & Doe parties? This might be a regional thing in Ontario, but it's basically a fundraiser for a couple's wedding. My fiancée and I considered one because friends had done it. I'm from the East Coast so we just have normal people weddings (with false teeth.) We crunched the numbers and realized we would barely break even and add on the stress of a giant stupid budget-rear end community hall party that no one really wants to go to. Not worth it, and I silently disapprove of them.
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Have a wedding you can afford, if you can't afford a huge wedding, don't have a huge wedding. If you need people to pay to come to your wedding, invite fewer people. I'm not paying to go to your wedding, sorry.
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Baronjutter posted:Have a wedding you can afford, if you can't afford a huge wedding, don't have a huge wedding. If you need people to pay to come to your wedding, invite fewer people. I'm not paying to go to your wedding, sorry. Yeah no kidding. When my partner and I were doing our wedding plan, we made our invite list, ran some numbers and then suddenly discovered that we really didn't need to invite 2/3 of the list. Best wedding ever.
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol the "cabin" Search around the Blue Mountains for what people pay for their "ski chalets" in my area. Literally millions. For skiing. In Ontario.
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peter banana posted:Search around the Blue Mountains for what people pay for their "ski chalets" in my area. Literally millions. Blue "Mountain" I guess Blue Decent Sized Hill doesnt exactly match up well with the idea of good skiing though. Also that made me curious what prices are like up that way now since I havnt taken a trip to Wasaga in a few years and what the hell is going on. Even houses in Wasaga loving Beach are selling for half a million. 
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Furnaceface posted:Blue "Mountain" Here's posh: https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/16483011/132-ARROWHEAD-Crescent-THE-BLUE-MOUNTAINS-Ontario-L9Y0R9 Here's middling: https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/16552689/115-KINSEY-Place-TOWN-OF-THE-BLUE-MOUNTAINS-Ontario-L9Y0R4 Here's one step above the condo-ailures: https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/16508341/58---204-BLUESKI-GEORGE-Crescent-THE-BLUE-MOUNTAINS-Ontario-L9Y0V4 Also no one truly well heeled has a Blue "Mountain" membership. Only poors like me. All of the other hills up here are private clubs. $15k joinup fee and $1500 annual membership. Now nominally there's a lot of "networking" that goes on in those clubs, but man that is some expensive breeding program for your offspring.
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