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I've always thought it would be pretty funny to jaunt around Desolation Sound in a Kayak, strategically napalming all the mega-mansions with private airstrips that have been built up there over the past decade. You could torch a half-billion dollars worth of equity in a casual week, while enjoying a dope-rear end paddling trip. 
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Terex posted:It's the same way in Alberta. Here's a 2 million dollar "cabin" at Pigeon Lake. My friend goes up from Calgary to Pigeon Lake (where he has a trailer, not a cabin) probably to avoid Calgarians. Rime posted:I've always thought it would be pretty funny to jaunt around Desolation Sound in a Kayak, strategically napalming all the mega-mansions with private airstrips that have been built up there over the past decade. You could torch a half-billion dollars worth of equity in a casual week, while enjoying a dope-rear end paddling trip. Did you go get mental help like the people in E/N told you to? It's, uh, probably an important and good idea if you're making posts like this.
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My faltering grip on sanity thankfully has little impact on attempts to make over-the-top scenarios about ravaging our bourgeoisie overlords, on this dying internet comedy forum. 
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Rime posted:My faltering grip on sanity thankfully has little impact on attempts to make over-the-top scenarios about ravaging our bourgeoisie overlords, on this dying internet comedy forum. Ok okay, well, in all honesty, I hope you get help in any event. Mental health really shouldn't be so frequently joked about, it's serious business.
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Rime posted:I've always thought it would be pretty funny to jaunt around Desolation Sound in a Kayak, strategically napalming all the mega-mansions with private airstrips that have been built up there over the past decade. You could torch a half-billion dollars worth of equity in a casual week, while enjoying a dope-rear end paddling trip. Rime your posts are usually pretty good as far as I can recall but please seek help before you become a watered down Canadian Trashcan Man
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:My father in law has a cabin in Washington state that he bought for $4,000, not too far from Vancouver (Anacortes). When I was at Mt. Hood last year we stayed in a dope-rear end three bedroom townhouse a 5 minute drive from the mountain at government camp and I checked out of curiosity how much it would cost to buy a similar one (there were one or two for sale in the complex). $240,000. Of course there is a 3-7% chance that it'll get destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the next 50 years but still...
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Descend to slumber posted:Peak bubble's not happening until we see people paying 15% over asking in Pt. Alberni and Pt. Hardy! I rolled through Port Alberni a few weeks ago on my way to Tofino and people were lined up down the block for a "learn to sell real estate" class. Huge billboards of realtors clogging the highway shoulders.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I rolled through Port Alberni a few weeks ago on my way to Tofino and people were lined up down the block for a "learn to sell real estate" class. Huge billboards of realtors clogging the highway shoulders. Jesus Christ Port Alberni... Obviously they want to get in on the real-estate boom for when the city becomes a major container port and cargo rail hub.
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Jun 23, 2016 19:08
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All this during a time when there seem to be more and more articles warning that the music is stopping soon
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Professor Shark posted:All this during a time when there seem to be more and more articles warning that the music is stopping soon You have more faith in people than I do. I assume more people are paying attention to articles written by realtors, if they're even reading anything about the housing market at all and not just working off their own assumptions & their personal history.
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Jun 23, 2016 19:37
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Professor Shark posted:All this during a time when there seem to be more and more articles warning that the music is stopping soon People don't read articles, certainly not ones by nerdy finance people. They read facebook posts, they read marketing disguised as content, they hear anecdotes and share stories at work. All they hear is that this is the new normal, buy if you can, prices going up forever, buy now for your kid's sake! Some financial egg head says this is all unsustainable but it keeps spreading and the rich chinese are inexhaustible. I wish the government would do something about affordability but I also don't want them to do anything that would negatively affect yearly price increases because I'm depending on them for my retirement.
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Baronjutter posted:People don't read articles I read this one. I couldn't look away. http://torontolife.com/city/life/spend-generation-manifesto/
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Ikantski posted:I read this one. I couldn't look away. lol but seriously 130k for a pharmacist? I'm in the wrong trade
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Ikantski posted:I read this one. I couldn't look away. I don't read enough about what people like to drink and smoke during their trip to Barcelona in this thread.
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large hands posted:lol Yeah but then you have to deal with loving morons every day of your life.
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Ikantski posted:I read this one. I couldn't look away. That's a lot of words when #YOLO would suffice
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Jun 23, 2016 20:26
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Baronjutter posted:Jesus Christ Port Alberni...
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Ikantski posted:I read this one. I couldn't look away.  MY ENTIRE LIFE REVOLVES AROUND WANDING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE GTA EATING AT RESTARAUNTSEDIT: SOMETIMES I SPEND A SHITLOAD OF MONEY TO FLY TO OTHER CITIES SO I CAN WANDER BACK AND FORTH EATING AT THEIR RESTARAUNTS
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" I’m not lazy, dumb or deluded. I’m a pharmacist, and I work hard—sometimes six days a week. I sleep roughly five hours a night" You better understand that he SUFFERS for that money
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Jun 23, 2016 20:57
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And some of you say rural living is pointless and trashy. I bet this empty shell of a man couldn't hold a conversation for longer than 5 minutes if you told him he wasn't allowed to talk about places he's gone to for the purpose of eating or drinking.
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Jun 23, 2016 20:59
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Fried Watermelon posted:You better understand that he SUFFERS for that money And his parents suffer although apparently not that many girls need to suffer him. quote:My parents are often disappointed in my choices, but they’re from another era. Yes, there are drawbacks to living at home. My folks are devout Christians, and they don’t condone sex before marriage. I’ve had girls over, but they rarely stay the night. If they do, my mom makes them sleep in the basement, and she keeps one eye open all night.
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Jun 23, 2016 21:00
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So what keeps you busy outside of work? I CONSUME SUSTENANCE AT GREAT EXPENSE!
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Jun 23, 2016 21:00
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Boomer labelling Millenials as "entitled" and "spoiled" reflexively gets my back up but if they're talking about guys like that, yeah, okay, I see their point. What a sad human being.from the comments posted:Yes, this guy is the perfect stereotype of King West. Brodudes who live in the suburbs with their parents.
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Jun 23, 2016 21:05
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Ikantski posted:I read this one. I couldn't look away. Going to Montreal and spending all your time around the Old Port is shameful Fried Watermelon posted:" I’m not lazy, dumb or deluded. I’m a pharmacist, and I work hard—sometimes six days a week. I sleep roughly five hours a night" Pharmacists do work hard and are under a lot of pressure to never gently caress up but yeah they're well compensated for it. My cousin and her husband worked in Seattle for a few years and raked in boatloads of money.
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What do you think he should be doing with his time instead?
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EvilJoven posted:So what keeps you busy outside of work? Going to different places to eat food and saying that's a hobby is like saying music is your hobby when you don't actually sing or play an instrument, but just sit around listening to music. Cooking is a hobby; going out to eat on a regular basis is just... not. Travel is a valid hobby, though, albeit I would hope you do more than simply eat and drink when you're travelling. I myself also visit museums, occasionally go hiking, and smoke.
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A lot of people are boring as gently caress because all of their hobbies and interests involve consuming media, food or drugs. You can identify them by their affinity for self-defining labels and their ability to list off long boring lists of poo poo. Also lol at someone making six figures while living at home and getting cock blocked by their mother.
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Brannock posted:What do you think he should be doing with his time instead? Literally anything interesting. Beyond what is probably grief-tourism lite and paying over the odds for a pasta carbonara which, if eaten on the King West I know, someone probably spit in. After a certain age, right around the age this guy is, being the guy who "goes to bars" stops being cool and starts being really pathetic. The people he's talking about with kids who have "no fun" probably look that way because they've actually come to realize they're not the most important organism in the universe and figuratively jerk themselves off all day.
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cowofwar posted:A lot of people are boring as gently caress because all of their hobbies and interests involve consuming media, food or drugs. To be fair, a lot of mine do too, but not all of them. EDIT: Going to bars and socializing with people is fun and good, no matter your age, though again it probably shouldn't form the basis for your identity. PT6A fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Brannock posted:What do you think he should be doing with his time instead? Investing in real estate
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cowofwar posted:A lot of people are boring as gently caress because all of their hobbies and interests involve consuming media, food or drugs. The passive lifestyle people. They spend all their money going places to have people do things for them, at them, to them. They could simply not exist and all the stuff that their life is focused on would still continue without skipping a beat. Personally I find that depressing. On the other hand, pretty much anyone who spends their time actually doing things that require them to participate seem to be able to at least hold a conversation about something.
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EvilJoven posted:The trick to owning a cottage is to not live in the GTA or some other sprawling urban wasteland so you can be at the cabin in an hour and it's viable to use every weekend. Trying to get to the cabin from the GTA is indeed a nightmare and part of why we left Toronto. Yes except you're camping in short driving distance of Winnipeg, so in between swatting mosquitoes and horseflies you can take a dip in a lake full of farm run off or go listen to the drunks rip around on seadoos and quads.
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EvilJoven posted:On the other hand, pretty much anyone who spends their time actually doing things that require them to participate seem to be able to at least hold a conversation about something. I think it really depends. I don't see why something like going on a SCUBA diving vacation, or going for a hike, or painting a picture, is inherently more interesting to talk about than going on vacation to explore food and drink in a different culture. It depends how interested you are in hearing about that thing.
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Doomy posted:Yes except you're camping in short driving distance of Winnipeg, so in between swatting mosquitoes and horseflies you can take a dip in a lake full of farm run off or go listen to the drunks rip around on seadoos and quads. As soon as you're in the Whiteshell this isn't the case. Put more than an hour or two worth of road behind you and there are tons of places where the water's probably safe to drink right out of whatever river you find yourself on. Exceptions I guess are Falcon / West Hawk, those do admittedly get full of shitheads who think a good weekend is using their Jeep as a stereo and yelling WOOOO! at random until the parkies tell them to shut the gently caress up or get packing.
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EvilJoven posted:The passive lifestyle people. They spend all their money going places to have people do things for them, at them, to them. They could simply not exist and all the stuff that their life is focused on would still continue without skipping a beat. Personally I find that depressing. Except people that won't shut up about their renos. gently caress those idiots.
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Dreylad posted:Going to Montreal and spending all your time around the Old Port is shameful Yeah I don't mean to sound like I'm slamming pharmacists, just this guy. He sounds like the weiner plastic surgeon guy from The League, trys so hard to be cool and name drops all of these expensive things but can never tell you a single thing about them aside from how much it costs
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Are any of you really surprised that middle classholes have the same attitude problems as wealthy pricks?
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Brannock posted:What do you think he should be doing with his time instead? 
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This 130k pharmacist is proof positive that profligacy is now a virtue
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large hands posted:lol It takes a similar time and expense to becoming a doctor such as 8 years total of higher education. Also lolling how in the next Independence Day movie Toronto will get destroyed.
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