I dropped out of university after two years because it was stupid and I hated it and I moved to Australia, but it turns out that was stupid and I hated it too.
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 02:46 |
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You loving white people You know what would have happened if I dropped out?
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:05 |
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Furnaceface posted:Nobody wants to skip university, its just not affordable to many people and the financial barriers to entry are a very real and stupid thing. Even with scholarships I couldnt afford university and had to work full time for 4 years after high school just to go to community college. As an American who moved to Canada, the average of $6000 per year to go the University in Canada (not counting scholarships) is hilarious to me cause each semester of school I payed $9000. And that was at a state school with scholarships. Sorry you didn't get to go, it just amazes me that people even go to University in the States. I have friends who took out loans to go to much higher-priced schools in NYC.
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Ccs posted:As an American who moved to Canada, the average of $6000 per year to go the University in Canada (not counting scholarships) is hilarious to me cause each semester of school I payed $9000. And that was at a state school with scholarships. loving this You motherfuckers have no idea how lucky you are compared to Americans or the lol loving British
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namaste faggots posted:loving this Tuition at the university I'm currently a grad student at is 68,000 USD a year. Thanks rich idiot undergrads for paying for me to do lots of useless poo poo
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:17 |
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So what's the point of having any sort of tenancy laws or rights in BC when most landlords make you sign a lease saying you'll vacate at the end of your lease, basically negating any sort of protections? Everyone I talked to is on a lease like this, and it means at the end of your lease they treat you as a brand new tenant and can raise the rent to anything like like, or just kick you out. Why even have maximum rent increase laws when landlords just make everyone sign these leases? I see why people are so willing to make horrible financial mistakes by buying a condo, renting has absolutely no sense of security here. At any moment the landlord could decide not to renew your lease, or decide the building needs new doorknobs so everyone's evicted. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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namaste faggots posted:You loving white people C63 AMG instead of the McLaren MP4-12C? Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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namaste faggots posted:You loving white people Your parents would have had to increase your allowance?
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Baronjutter posted:So what's the point of having any sort of tenancy laws or rights in BC when most landlords make you sign a lease saying you'll vacate at the end of your lease, basically negating any sort of protections? Everyone I talked to is on a lease like this, and it means at the end of your lease they treat you as a brand new tenant and can raise the rent to anything like like, or just kick you out. Why even have maximum rent increase laws when landlords just make everyone sign these leases? Maybe the intent is so that you can't make a lease that goes up every year by more than whatever the prescribed amount is?
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Baronjutter posted:So what's the point of having any sort of tenancy laws or rights in BC when most landlords make you sign a lease saying you'll vacate at the end of your lease, basically negating any sort of protections? Everyone I talked to is on a lease like this, and it means at the end of your lease they treat you as a brand new tenant and can raise the rent to anything like like, or just kick you out. Why even have maximum rent increase laws when landlords just make everyone sign these leases? That lease would get slapped down so hard in arbitration. The tenancy act applies to all tenants, even ones that sign a paper saying "the tenancy act does not apply to me". The landord is trying to treat the tenants as having moved without them actually having moved. The actuality of the facts is more important to the law than the fiction of a contract. A landlord renovicting after losing a lease arbitration would be treated very unfavourably by further arbitration and/or the courts. ductonius fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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namaste faggots posted:loving this British tuition fees are a relatively recent thing. I think their tuition fees are pretty much in line with what Canadian tuition fees have risen to over the same timeframe. Looking at Queens in particular (because it's actually a pretty mediocre school that is way too expensive and that people think is actually an ~elite institution~ for some reason) an ordinary degree is 7.5k/year, an engineering degree is 13k/year, and an undergraduate commerce degree is now 18k/year.
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If I ever have kids I'll recommend they go to school in Germany. They'll pay no tuition and maybe even get EU passports out of it (if the EU still exists). Though who knows what Europe will be like in 25-35 years. Or the rest of the world for that matter.
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blah_blah posted:British tuition fees are a relatively recent thing. I think their tuition fees are pretty much in line with what Canadian tuition fees have risen to over the same timeframe. Looking at Queens in particular (because it's actually a pretty mediocre school that is way too expensive and that people think is actually an ~elite institution~ for some reason) an ordinary degree is 7.5k/year, an engineering degree is 13k/year, and an undergraduate commerce degree is now 18k/year. yet some dumb motherfucker is going to take a look at this cost and say hmm this is way too expensive and there's no gurantee i'll find a job lol might as well buy a new car instead
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namaste faggots posted:yet some dumb motherfucker is going to take a look at this cost and say hmm this is way too expensive and there's no gurantee i'll find a job lol might as well buy a new car instead I mean, some dumb motherfucker is probably going to look at the 18k and assume that it must be better than the degree in math, statistics, or CS that costs about 40% as much.
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:49 |
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e: this was meant to go to CanPol. Pretend this is a rant about foreign capital or something.
Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Being half a pound heavier than Blaikie the Younger
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:18 |
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namaste faggots posted:yet some dumb motherfucker is going to take a look at this cost and say hmm this is way too expensive and there's no gurantee i'll find a job lol might as well buy a new car instead Our education system sucks at preparing kids properly for post-secondary. I should know, Im a walking loving example of it. I didnt buy a car or anything dumb like that, but I did see friends going into art/english/psych degrees only to find out that their best job options afterwards boil down to picking between Starbucks and Tim Hortons. This caused other friends and family to just ask "Why bother if we just end up at the same point in the end"" instead of asking "Well, what else is out there?". There are tons of lovely degrees that are set at super low cost just to hoover up all these people and its not doing anyone any good, it just puts people into debt with a lovely degree in gender studies or whatever. blah_blah posted:I mean, some dumb motherfucker is probably going to look at the 18k and assume that it must be better than the degree in math, statistics, or CS that costs about 40% as much. This kind of ties into the problem. Had I known back then what I know now I could have just gone into Math or Pharmacology for half the loving cost instead of railroading myself into an unreachable goal. But that was never cleanly presented to me as an option. Hell I didnt really know I had options. It was just "Pick a career before you graduate high school! Here is your budget, OK now go!".
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namaste faggots posted:You loving white people My mom has 4 bachelor's degrees (and she's done all the coursework for a fifth but they wouldn't give her a second BSc), a master's degree and a phd in biology. She spent the next five years occasionally sadly asking if I was ever going to go back to University, and then realized I wasn't and gave up. I'm pretty sure she's still actually supremely disappointed that I never even got a bach degree.
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 06:39 |
Anecdotal I know but my wife works in a major north shore (Vancouver) notary and a bunch of people have changed their closing date to avoid the new foreigner purchase tax in August. They're swamped.
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Furnaceface posted:Our education system sucks at preparing kids properly for post-secondary. I think the biggest problem is that most high schoolers get their advice from parents/trusted adults who in many cases have cushy jobs/seniority that will never exist for people of this generation, and from guidance counselors and teachers who have no clue what the normal working world is actually like. A lot of this is actually researchable, but asking a teenager to sift through this on the internet and arrive at a correct conclusion, or resist the external influence/biases of their parents is a pretty tall task. Then, even if you do pick a good discipline, there's really no guarantee that you're actually ready to study it. I've taught at the postsecondary level, and there are a lot of students with astonishingly poor math fundamentals that probably need at least a year or more of remedial study before they can pass basic first-year math/stats courses -- which effectively rules out math, stats, (quant-y) economics, CS, physics, engineering, etc as majors. And even beyond that a lot of 18 year olds have atrocious study habits and work ethic and just need to generally grow up a bit before they can function effectively at the postsecondary level.
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ductonius posted:That lease would get slapped down so hard in arbitration. The tenancy act applies to all tenants, even ones that sign a paper saying "the tenancy act does not apply to me". The landord is trying to treat the tenants as having moved without them actually having moved. The actuality of the facts is more important to the law than the fiction of a contract. Living in a lovely apartment in a university town taught me that whatever piece of paper the landlord had you sign isn't worth poo poo, it's only slightly more legally binding than the contract used car dealerships have people sign saying that they're interested in buying a car today
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Career counselling in high school is a joke and leaves 17 year olds woefully unprepared to decide their education and work goals. I have a masters and most of a PhD in psychology from a good school and am working as a contractor right now due to being essentially unemployable. Very few employers will ever call you if you mention you've gone to grad school (not sure why). I could have gone to college for the stuff I'm doing now and been working in 3 years rather than busting my rear end in low paying teaching assistantships and random jobs. Don't be like me, kids.
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Professor Shark posted:Living in a lovely apartment in a university town taught me that whatever piece of paper the landlord had you sign isn't worth poo poo, it's only slightly more legally binding than the contract used car dealerships have people sign saying that they're interested in buying a car today My lease says I can't have a visitor stay for more than 14 days per year without the landlord's "express written consent." Even better, they made me sign a separate piece of paper when I moved in saying they could kick me out if they suspected any illegal activity, "including smoking marijuana," even if they don't meet the legal standard of evidence. I'd love to see them enforce those provisions, but of course I pay my rent on time so they don't give a poo poo about how many visitors I have over and all the weed I smoke. I do worry a bit about all the people in the building with worse language skills than me who don't understand all the rights Canadian tenants have, they're the ones who could really get shafted.
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a primate posted:Career counselling in high school is a joke and leaves 17 year olds woefully unprepared to decide their education and work goals. I have a masters and most of a PhD in psychology from a good school and am working as a contractor right now due to being essentially unemployable. Very few employers will ever call you if you mention you've gone to grad school (not sure why). I could have gone to college for the stuff I'm doing now and been working in 3 years rather than busting my rear end in low paying teaching assistantships and random jobs. Don't be like me, kids. Career counselling at the university level is just as laughable. When most majors ask what their degree can be useful for the answer is quite often 'Teach, I guess'. I'd really like to see how many people with degrees in anything but medical or engineering fields actually end up applying their degree for anything other than teaching.
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quote:
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/canadas-economy-is-hostage-to-the-housing-bubble-2/
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ductonius posted:That lease would get slapped down so hard in arbitration. The tenancy act applies to all tenants, even ones that sign a paper saying "the tenancy act does not apply to me". The landord is trying to treat the tenants as having moved without them actually having moved. The actuality of the facts is more important to the law than the fiction of a contract. Except it's quasi-legal in BC? http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/ending-a-tenancy/tenant-notice quote:If a fixed-term tenancy agreement (or a lease) has a move-out clause that requires the tenant to move out at the end of the term, the tenant can move at the end of the term without giving the landlord notice. http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/02078_01#section44 quote:(b) the tenancy agreement is a fixed term tenancy agreement that provides that the tenant will vacate the rental unit on the date specified as the end of the tenancy;
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/canadas-economy-is-hostage-to-the-housing-bubble-2/ I like that they mention de Jong repeatedly by name but awkwardly not the seven houses he owns. I guess Macleans' libel insurance isn't what it used to be. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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The CEGEP system in Quebec always seemed to give students a solid footing for university compared to the students from out of the province who didn't have the same school system.
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http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-aware-of-26-baby-houses-as-birth-tourism-from-china-boomsquote:Health ministry investigators are aware of more than two dozen so-called birth houses in B.C. offering pregnant foreign mothers temporary room and board before and after giving birth in local hospitals, according to Freedom of Information documents obtained by Postmedia. at least when the bubble bursts we'll still have another source of industry
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lmao
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namaste faggots posted:http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-aware-of-26-baby-houses-as-birth-tourism-from-china-booms To be fair, these are also all over California. Thanks new world countries pretty much all giving citizenship by blood or location.
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 19:37 |
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So if the CMHC is finally seeing a "moderate" problem in the Canadian housing market, does that mean the whole thing is about to burn to the ground?
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 21:52 |
quote:Some Vancouver area realtors are getting creative in an attempt to help foreign buyers avoid the new 15% additional property transfer tax that takes effect next week.
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It always shocks me how most realtors are barely literate. It shouldn't.
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 22:40 |
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50 years ago, the same people who are realtors today were probably blue collar mill workers or miners. We should thank our lucky stars that the housing market has provided this much social mobility. dat gini coefficient
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 22:47 |
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I've heard of those birth houses in California before. Apparently they really screw over the kids who are born there but then return to China, because they don't have identity cards in China, and may never be able to get them. So unless the parents of these kids have connections or can bribe people into getting their kid an identity card, that kid is going to have a hard upbringing inside China until they get old enough to move back to the US. So it fucks up their childhood and then get pressured into moving away from family once they come of age.
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http://www.vancourier.com/news/repercussions-from-b-c-s-new-15-real-estate-tax-feared-1.2311083quote:Real estate professionals are decrying the unfairness of the B.C. government springing a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers of Metro Vancouver homes with no notice. http://www.rew.ca/news/foreign-buyers-have-insignificant-impact-on-vancouver-housing-market-bcrea-1.2096227 quote:The skyrocketing demand for homes and rapid price acceleration is “largely driven by land scarcity and densification policies in the Metro region,” while foreign investment is “insufficient to impact such a large and diverse market,” according to a British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) report published June 10. oh uh awkward
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# ? Jul 27, 2016 23:53 |
My favourite part of that second article is how the BREA report uses data from 2014 to go "nope no problems here" when that was two years ago and prices have gone up like 50% since then lol.
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# ? Jul 28, 2016 00:16 |
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If a Chinese buyer can flake and avoid damages, shouldn't realtors be warning their clients away from such buyers? If they're such a small portion of real estate business then it shouldn't make it much harder to sell, after all.
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You're acting like this market rational or something
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