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namaste faggots posted:http://vanmag.com/city/big-changes-coming-to-main-street/ hot art wet city was a great event space that i, personally, will miss a lot. gently caress foundation tho
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:The Wolf of Whistler just posted "the only 3 bed/3bath townhouse with garage under $2,000,000 in the Benchlands" and I am loving that towel holder. I like wainscotting, but not that wainscotting!
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Mainland Chinese agents disappeared a Chinese-Canadian multi-billionaire while he was in HK: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/world/asia/xiao-jianhua-china-hong-kong-billionaire.html
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namaste faggots posted:http://vanmag.com/city/big-changes-coming-to-main-street/ The startup zoning is such a terrible idea. By baking in such narrow wording into the zoning the city has made the property extra inflexible. What happens if there's a tech downturn and demand for these spaces decreases? Well then you have the situation of Great Northern Way, which a previous council zoned for "high tech" use in 1999, but has remained a parking lot ever since because the area was never trendy enough for tech companies and the land owners can't do anything else with the land. The city is just making work for some future council that is going to spend time to undo this later. If it wasn't for the fact that these meetings are at like 5pm and impossible to attend, it would have considered going and asking council if they were even considering the scenario where Hootsuite doesn't become a success, Vancouver's tech ecosystem stagnates and what happens then. Recall all those articles from a few months ago about investors (foreign and local) starting to wildly speculate on commercial and industrial land and driving up valuations. This is going to have a big direct impact on small businesses all over Vancouver, but especially in Mount Pleasant. The city is also now floating the idea of putting housing into the False Creek Flats industrial area, which seems totally contradictory to what I thought the broad goals of the area were. This will drive up valuations, increase taxes on businesses, and undermine industrial use. I could see a lot of businesses being displaced by this.
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EvilJoven posted:The first of many, I'm sure. Doubtful that it's the first.
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Subjunctive posted:Doubtful that it's the first. The article itself gave another example of the exact same thing happening a few years ago.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-man-lives-with-his-five-young-children-in-a-1050-square-foot-condo-2017-01-31
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Risky Bisquick posted:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-man-lives-with-his-five-young-children-in-a-1050-square-foot-condo-2017-01-31 The conspiracy theorist in me is starting to wonder if these stupid articles are part of a plot to normalize the idea of cramming an entire family into a bachelor apartment or storage shed 'tiny house' in order to further minimize the expectations of the working populace of this country.
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EvilJoven posted:The conspiracy theorist in me is starting to wonder if these stupid articles are part of a plot to normalize the idea of cramming an entire family into a bachelor apartment or storage shed 'tiny house' in order to further minimize the expectations of the working populace of this country.
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EvilJoven posted:The conspiracy theorist in me is starting to wonder if these stupid articles are part of a plot to normalize the idea of cramming an entire family into a bachelor apartment or storage shed 'tiny house' in order to further minimize the expectations of the working populace of this country. I'm not sure it's like an organized conspiracy level plot. As much as it's being pushed by developers and politicians, it's also being boosted simply by people forced to live in those conditions trying to rationalize things and make them selves feel better about their lives. It's much nicer to think of yourself as a progressive minimalist helping the planet by rejecting consumerism and living a more "sustainable" life than the victim of a failing economic system trapped in a garbage city in a seemingly never ending housing bubble. When you're forced to swallow rapidly diminishing quality of life it goes down easier with some smug progressive sugar. "no no I'm living like this on purpose, it's like a movement, I totally love it"
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quote:Hey folks, I know we focus mostly on Vancouver and gvrd area but I wanted to post a little bit about Fraser valley. I've been following some sales closely and everything I've seen so far is selling under listed. A lot of places have been going up to 50K under which is huge when the price of the house is 600K. A lot of properties are also listed for more than a month or two. Sales are down and I only see them going lower since it's much harder to qualify for a mortgage at this point.
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It always starts in the most ridiculous far flung exurbs that had no business getting bubbly in the first place, then rapidly collapses further and further the core.
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Femtosecond posted:The startup zoning is such a terrible idea. By baking in such narrow wording into the zoning the city has made the property extra inflexible. What happens if there's a tech downturn and demand for these spaces decreases? Well then you have the situation of Great Northern Way, which a previous council zoned for "high tech" use in 1999, but has remained a parking lot ever since because the area was never trendy enough for tech companies and the land owners can't do anything else with the land. The city is just making work for some future council that is going to spend time to undo this later. And just like with the Molson Brewery property, long-standing industrial users shall bend the knee before The Market. Hail! HAIL!
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THC posted:Oh it totally is, and it's working - Burning Man type people on FB keep fetishizing cozy shipping container homes and #vanlife and prefabricated hobbit holes and it drives me nuts There's nothing inherently wrong with any of these, gramps, as long as they aren't trying to force alternative living on the general populace. We need the general populace to uphold the status quo of normality so that those economic gears keep turning and I keep making money. I still plan to live in a van, it suits my career and life goals a drat sight better than renting a room for four months at a time or signing on to a fuckin' mortgage. And when I do get old enough for the latter, it'll be to build some hippy hobbit hole far enough away from you city fucks that I won't have to listen to your conformist yammering anymore. 
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Rime posted:There's nothing inherently wrong with any of these, gramps, as long as they aren't trying to force alternative living on the general populace. We need the general populace to uphold the status quo of normality so that those economic gears keep turning and I keep making money. If people wanna live in shipping containers they can go for it. It sure as poo poo shouldn't cost them $200,000+ to do though.
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the last signal... posted:If people wanna live in shipping containers they can go for it. It sure as poo poo shouldn't cost them $200,000+ to do though. You think they are making anymore shipping containers?
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Rime posted:I still plan to live in a van, it suits my career and life goals a drat sight better than renting a room for four months at a time or signing on to a fuckin' mortgage. Have you considered the potential impacts of this on your dating life? Like I know there is a subset of folks who would be cool with going back to a van beside the park to get down but it's a pretty small one and a lot of them are white people with dreadlocks who don't shave their junk at all. Someone has to ask the important questions here.
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quote:Federal parliament complicit in property money laundering http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/02/federal-parliament-complicit-property-money-laundering/
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the last signal... posted:If people wanna live in shipping containers they can go for it. It sure as poo poo shouldn't cost them $200,000+ to do though. It's been my plan for some time to secure some land up north and put a "tiny" home on it but the reason I began looking into that kind of lifestyle years ago is because it's too loving expensive to live "normally" in a suburb or a city for me, and now even that is too expensive without the bubble bursting gently caress all these hipster douchebags freezing their asses off during the winter because they forgot they were building a home and not a loving play fort for 8 year olds so they didn't add any insulation, or rich assholes pretending they've gone galt because daddy's bank account paid for their 300 acre fuckfruit farm
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Natural Resource Forum: "our greatest natural resource is our people" "Look at our tech sector growth. 3.3% every year."
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Tighclops posted:gently caress all these hipster douchebags freezing their asses off during the winter because they forgot they were building a home and not a loving play fort for 8 year olds so they didn't add any insulation, or rich assholes pretending they've gone galt because daddy's bank account paid for their 300 acre fuckfruit farm Tell me more about these fruit farms.
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The Butcher posted:Have you considered the potential impacts of this on your dating life? lol even those people would be able to see through his try-hard non-conformist wannabe act so i dont think itll be much of a problem
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I'm still hacking my way through hundreds of CanPol posts but since I'm caught up with this one I thought I'd throw this up:
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Professor Shark posted:I'm still hacking my way through hundreds of CanPol posts but since I'm caught up with this one I thought I'd throw this up: Jenny Kwan Skrillex?
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I worked with a guy that lived in a van in Vancouver a couple of years ago. He knew all of the parks that didn't lock their toilets at night and even had a small chemical camp toilet onboard. After listening to his stories I really don't know why the rest of us choose to live in houses and condos like the loving sheep we are.
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Some of us enjoy bathing and have sex lives
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Is there much practical difference between a 600sq ft microcondo/lane house and a van aside from $2k a month?
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lol goddamn you're posh. You can just live in a park why do you even need a van.
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cowofwar posted:Is there much practical difference between a 600sq ft microcondo/lane house and a van aside from $2k a month? Is there much practical difference between a dumpster and a van aside from what you spend on gas, insurance, and parking?
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cowofwar posted:Is there much practical difference between a 600sq ft microcondo/lane house and a van aside from $2k a month? plumbing, electricity, internet, a mailing address
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cowofwar posted:Is there much practical difference between a 600sq ft microcondo/lane house and a van aside from $2k a month? Plumbing that doesn't connect to a bucket? General lack of piss jars?
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 This is my ideal place. Near rail tracks, a SkyTrain line, industrial parks, and more! Includes shade too!
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Jordan7hm posted:lol goddamn you're posh. You can just live in a park why do you even need a van. Pick the right one and your sex lives may actually improve because park loving.
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Park loving: the Canadian tragedy of the commons.
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What's the difference between van squatting and homelessness Emancipation?
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mashed_penguin posted:I worked with a guy that lived in a van in Vancouver a couple of years ago. He knew all of the parks that didn't lock their toilets at night and even had a small chemical camp toilet onboard. After listening to his stories I really don't know why the rest of us choose to live in houses and condos like the loving sheep we are. He could just park the van in a Walmart and use their toilet facilities, and/or join a 24 hour gym for shower facilities. He can also lift weights too.
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