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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.vancourier.com/news/owners-of-vancouver-s-first-cohousing-complex-move-in-1.2195550 This is literally a People's Commune. Next step: execute the kulaks and then half the inhabitants starve to death because noone puts any effort into the communal meals.
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How many rubles does a unit run you in Glorious People's Commune?
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Cultural Imperial posted:apart from jobs, why even live in ontario Winter is my favourite season, and I'm led to believe that normal people don't like to live in close quarters to psychotics like me. Ontario seems like a good holding pen for my type.
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My friend's doing a housing co-op like that - not sure about the communal meals etc. but they're looking to buy a few contiguous plots to make some ~30 unit complex on.
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Standard microeconomics teaches us that as price rises for a thing, the demand drops. Yet with assets, especially housing, it's exactly the opposite. Does this phenomenon have a name? (other than stupidity/greed)
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"Don't miss the boat" or "Get in while you can"
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Lexicon posted:Standard microeconomics teaches us that as price rises for a thing, the demand drops. Yet with assets, especially housing, it's exactly the opposite. Does this phenomenon have a name? (other than stupidity/greed) There are things like Veblen goods.
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Lexicon posted:Standard microeconomics teaches us that as price rises for a thing, the demand drops. Yet with assets, especially housing, it's exactly the opposite. Does this phenomenon have a name? (other than stupidity/greed) FOMO
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Mar 12, 2016 13:58
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blah_blah posted:There are things like Veblen goods. I've never heard of this. It explains, well, all of Vancouver's disposible income consumption behavior
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In the Star's latest puff piece on Southwest Ontario: Guelph a preferred option over Toronto at least according to one woman with a dog who loved undergrad there. Also a CMHC specialist informs us that young professionals move from TO to Barrie and Hamilton and the Shwa. How many? Uh, some. Why? Because they want a white picket fence and a yellow lab/golden retriever (of course that is the exact breed this person owns).
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eXXon posted:In the Star's latest puff piece on Southwest Ontario: Guelph a preferred option over Toronto at least according to one woman with a dog who loved undergrad there. Also a CMHC specialist informs us that young professionals move from TO to Barrie and Hamilton and the Shwa. How many? Uh, some. Why? Because they want a white picket fence and a yellow lab/golden retriever (of course that is the exact breed this person owns). You can't hate on labs and goldens, they are the pretty much the best dogs ever.
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Lexicon posted:Standard microeconomics teaches us that as price rises for a thing, the demand drops. Yet with assets, especially housing, it's exactly the opposite. Does this phenomenon have a name? (other than stupidity/greed) Elasticity.
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PT6A posted:You can't hate on labs and goldens, they are the pretty much the best dogs ever. Are you the dumbest person ever
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Lexicon posted:Standard microeconomics teaches us that as price rises for a thing, the demand drops. Yet with assets, especially housing, it's exactly the opposite. Does this phenomenon have a name? (other than stupidity/greed) This is exactly why cheap credit with long payoffs is the number one driver of real estate prices spiraling out of control. Because at the end of the day what most people are looking at is monthly cost, not total cost, so you can hide price rises with long cheap loans. Actually it's not even just real estate prices, the increases in college education (at least in the states) are partly a function of this same effect. blah_blah posted:There are things like Veblen goods. Interestingly enough, you will see this effect with ivy league university's in the US. I suppose it could also be happening in luxury housing as well, and that could trickle down and cause price increases throughout the market.
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blah_blah posted:There are things like Veblen goods. A friend of mine couldn't get anyone to rent rooms in his flat which he pays roughly 3600 USD a month for... until he nearly doubled the price. After that he had no trouble filling the vacancies.  Also reminds of energy drinks like red bull, which were actually very cheap at first but weren't popular... until the price was doubled (or even tripled or more).
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Interestingly enough, you will see this effect with ivy league university's in the US. I suppose it could also be happening in luxury housing as well, and that could trickle down and cause price increases throughout the market. Ivy League schools are popular for reasons outside of price. They literally have so much demand that they can fill every single one of their spots twice over with perfect SAT/ACT scoring students with years and years of volunteer work and crap like that. Plus no one actually pays the sticker price unless you're already filthy rich anyway.
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Interestingly enough, you will see this effect with ivy league university's in the US. No, not really. Demand is high, but it doesn't go up in correlation with the price of tuition (and the sticker price of tuition is more than what most students at a lot of the Ivies are paying). It may be status-symbol-y, but it isn't a Veblen good.
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eXXon posted:In the Star's latest puff piece on Southwest Ontario: Guelph a preferred option over Toronto at least according to one woman with a dog who loved undergrad there. Also a CMHC specialist informs us that young professionals move from TO to Barrie and Hamilton and the Shwa. How many? Uh, some. Why? Because they want a white picket fence and a yellow lab/golden retriever (of course that is the exact breed this person owns). Its actually (sadly) accurate. The number of young families moving from the GTA to Barrie is kind of staggering, especially when you consider how many keep their jobs down there. I dont understand how people can so willingly accept a sudden commute of 1.5+ hours each way just for the sake of home ownership. Especially moving into such a car focused city like Barrie, though these days I think they just it as an excuse to show off their brand new Porche, Audi and BMW they went balls deep into debt to buy.
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Furnaceface posted:Its actually (sadly) accurate. The number of young families moving from the GTA to Barrie is kind of staggering, especially when you consider how many keep their jobs down there. I dont understand how people can so willingly accept a sudden commute of 1.5+ hours each way just for the sake of home ownership. Especially moving into such a car focused city like Barrie, though these days I think they just it as an excuse to show off their brand new Porche, Audi and BMW they went balls deep into debt to buy. Probably because their kids would have to deal with that sort if they went to school in Toronto proper or something. I'd rather do pretty much anything more than commuting for 3 hours per day. That sounds like my personal idea of hell.
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PT6A posted:I'd rather do pretty much anything more than commuting for 3 hours per day. That sounds like my personal idea of hell. I have had many older people ask why my wife and I don't move out to PoCo or Langley to find a house we can saddle ourselves with and they are always amazed that I would bring up hour-plus commutes as a negative. They say stuff like "but you can get a nice car"*. I don't want a nice car! I don't want any car, preferably. I would rather not drive! I commute about 45min total a day and that's about as much as I can stand, and really, only that much because I can go to the grocery or the bottle depot on the way home to break it up. According to the close-to-retirement guys I come across, what I'm supposed to be doing is spending most of my disposable income on a house and then whatever cash I have leftover goes into the rapidly depreciating assets otherwise known as cars.  *Two cars, actually! My wife doesn't need one to get to her work currently and I have one only because I work out in the rear end end of Lulu island.
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THC posted:How many rubles does a unit run you in Glorious People's Commune? lmao quote:Creating the kind of community that cohousing proponents seek isn’t cheap. The Vancouver Cohousing group, which acted as developer, had to find a large enough plot of land on which to build in the city’s notoriously pricey real estate market. The group didn’t add the usual 15 per cent developer markup, but it still had to cover building costs. Prices ended up ranging from about $285,000 for a studio to just over $800,000 for a large unit. But residents could opt for smaller, less expensive suites because they have access to so much common space. Other advantages include the ability to share childcare and vehicles.
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ductonius posted:I have had many older people ask why my wife and I don't move out to PoCo or Langley to find a house we can saddle ourselves with and they are always amazed that I would bring up hour-plus commutes as a negative. They say stuff like "but you can get a nice car"*. I don't want a nice car! I don't want any car, preferably. I would rather not drive! I commute about 45min total a day and that's about as much as I can stand, and really, only that much because I can go to the grocery or the bottle depot on the way home to break it up. After living my whole life in car-dependent communities, and having jobs that required car travel, I now live near a SkyTrain line where there is excellent bus service, and have a job where I can take the train to get to work. It is heaven! My truck is starting to get a bit old, and I have no longer any desire to replace it with something else. I need a vehicle to do really three things - drive to the ocean to go scuba diving, drive to the mountains to go skiing, and getting groceries every so often when I need to buy more stuff than I can carry. A well-maintained ten-year old truck seems to do that just fine. My old job had me driving a lot, and I observed the health of the people who had the brutally long commutes quite closely. Sure, they might have owned a postage stamp house in a subdivision in Abbotsford, but they were morbidly obese and had all sorts of chronic diseases (hypertension, thyroid problems, auto-immune diseases, hypercholesterolemia, heart rhythm problems, etc.). Not that these observations are scientifically valid, but it seemed a common-enough trait amongst many of them.
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Cholesterol, thyroid and autoimmune issues are largely inherited.  It wouldnt surprise me one single bit if the added stress from long lovely commutes amplified the negative effects of those diseases though.
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etalian posted:lmao
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Desmond posted:Clearly, we are living in the wrong city/country. Never look at housing prices in US cities outside of of like the 6 big coast centres because you'll want to kill yourself. My father lives just outside city with drat good job prospects in the 48th richest county in the United States and a house there averages like 200k unless you want a horse farm.
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sbaldrick posted:Never look at housing prices in US cities outside of of like the 6 big coast centres because you'll want to kill yourself. Yeah, a friend of mine who used to live in Florida sent me a link to the house she wants to buy and it's an absolutely phenomenal, like brand new bungalow with a bunch of land not too far from Orlando and it was like 190k.
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HookShot posted:Yeah, a friend of mine who used to live in Florida sent me a link to the house she wants to buy and it's an absolutely phenomenal, like brand new bungalow with a bunch of land not too far from Orlando and it was like 190k. I wonder what it cost in '06
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[q[/b]uote="HookShot" post="457364242"] Yeah, a friend of mine who used to live in Florida sent me a link to the house she wants to buy and it's an absolutely phenomenal, like brand new bungalow with a bunch of land not too far from Orlando and it was like 190k. [/quote] And there are still Canadians who think I'm unreasonable when I suggest $300k for a bungalow in Bella Coola, or Courtenay, or anywhere in canada is an absurd price. "Well what do you expect houses to cost, nothing in life is free you know!" loving Redditors. 
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Rime posted:loving Realtors. ftfy
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computer parts posted:Ivy League schools are popular for reasons outside of price. They literally have so much demand that they can fill every single one of their spots twice over with perfect SAT/ACT scoring students with years and years of volunteer work and crap like that. To add to this, the Ivy Leagues aren't even the most expensive schools in the US on pure sticker price. That whole top 25 list is a mix of private schools from 'world-class' (Columbia, Chicago) to 'pretty good, I guess' (Sarah Lawrence, Fordham, Pitzer, Drexel).
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Rime posted:[q[/b]uote="HookShot" post="457364242"] And there are still Canadians who think I'm unreasonable when I suggest $300k for a bungalow in Bella Coola, or Courtenay, or anywhere in canada is an absurd price. "Well what do you expect houses to cost, nothing in life is free you know!" loving Redditors. [/quote] I get that a lot in Prince George. I'm perfectly content w renting downtown, 10 min walk from work. "Why don't you buy a house" "Because $300k+ is ridiculous for the market" "But you're throwing money awaaaay" "Nope." 
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I lived there too. When I moved, the moving guy asked me if I felt I had thrown my money away by renting an apartment for several years. I told him I bought two things with that money - one, a place to live for all that time, and two, the ability to leave town without having to look back. Both very valuable in my view.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/albertans-moving-west-kootenay-housing-market-1.3489152quote:Albertans moving west factor in hot Kootenay housing market Keeping buying retards
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I always forget Nelson is technically in the Kootenays, in my head they end at Kamloops and anything north of that is nowhereland.
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HookShot posted:I always forget Nelson is technically in the Kootenays, in my head they end at Kamloops and anything north of that is nowhereland. Your BC geography knowledge seems... Odd. The entire Okanagan region separates Kamloops/Thompson-Nicola from the Kootenays. I always kind of think of Nelson as being the heart of the Kootenays but I guess it's the West-Kootenays. Cranbrook would be the middle of the East?
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Squibbles posted:Your BC geography knowledge seems... Odd. The entire Okanagan region separates Kamloops/Thompson-Nicola from the Kootenays. I'm from Vancouver, everything east of Hope is the Kootenays until Revelstoke, everything east and directly south of there is The Rockies. Also the Okanagan is basically just what's along the Crow's Nest.
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Squibbles posted:Your BC geography knowledge seems... Odd. The entire Okanagan region separates Kamloops/Thompson-Nicola from the Kootenays. Once you get East of Kelowna, or north of Kamloops, BC is pretty much "Here Be Dragons".
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/albertans-moving-west-kootenay-housing-market-1.3489152 Perfectly rational choice. The Interior is a way nicer place to live than Alberta.
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