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Cold on a Cob posted:I've considered it. I've even had a recruiter from there reach out to me. if you don't work in the public service or live in Orleans you don't need to speak french. Plus you could learn French, which is a cool and good language to speak.
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EvilJoven posted:There has got to be gainful employment to be had outside of the GTA and Vancouver *somewhere*. This Country has 35 million people in it in dozens of cities and towns spanning an entire continent. Why would there be? I mean maybe I can move back to the northern interior and try to be a drug dealer or something but I dunno if I'm really cut out for it.
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Jordan7hm posted:if you don't work in the public service or live in Orleans you don't need to speak french. Plus you could learn French, which is a cool and good language to speak. Yeah I would be avoiding public service work if I did. I've seriously considered it but ultimately we're not leaving the GTA while my wife's Mom is still here. Maybe in the future. We also thought about moving back to Calgary but considering I have several friends who were laid off there (one of whom moved to the GTA just over a year ago for work) I am probably better off staying put for now and just sticking to renting. Cold on a Cob fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 2, 2017 |
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EvilJoven posted:There has got to be gainful employment to be had outside of the GTA and Vancouver *somewhere*. This Country has 35 million people in it in dozens of cities and towns spanning an entire continent. A lot of it requires a personal vehicle and lots of commuting, something you are vehemently against. Small towns relying on a single industry and being self sufficient is a thing of the past. Also speaking of lovely cities, houses in Barrie are poised to pass 500k by June. Just in time for the 1.2 million people that travel the 400 northbound every weekend in the summer.
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I'm opposed to personal vehicle use for commuting in urban centers that should have servicable public transportation and active transit options available. Nobody should be carting themselves around in a half a ton of steel to get from the same point a) to point b) every day in a city. The same A to B grind between cities should be by train or bus, not in a car on a freeway. Hell even in a lot of smaller towns in Europe they manage to make it more viable to get by day to day with limited vehicle use. I just don't understand why we can't have that here. But it's not like I don't respect that there is work to be done that involves a lot of distance to cover in sparsely populated areas.
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Let's 10 of us manifest destiny the north half of canada and make the north west dome-etories
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Rime posted:There are 4.6 Million people living in British Columbia. 2.8 Million of them, or more than 60%, live in the Lower Mainland. Absolutely this. Outside of Vancouver/Victoria the economy of BC is garbage. quote:Job generation remains bleak in B.C.’s vast rural regions Rime it seems like you keep an eye on land values outside Vancouver. Is there anywhere in BC that's still a bargain at all? It's looking more likely that the Liberals are going to win another mandate and housing is just going to keep getting worse and worse. Maybe I should try to get a job that will let me work remote and I can go live in the wilderness for a bit. As an aside I was randomly panning the map around in realtor.ca and found the most absurd property. I didn't even know this island existed. No water, no electricity, extreme fire hazard, water access only and apparently almost no where on the island you can actually safely moor a boat. All that in mind and it's still $250k for a tiny slice of rocky bare land and this isn't even the side with a nice view of the city. With all those constraints I'm sure it'd be an interesting challenge to try to build something cool here though. Maybe I'll keep an eye on this weird island in case the market ever finally implodes and rich West Van people need to sell off some stuff.
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My FIL thinks that because of the increased cash restrictions, the chinese investors holding 10-20 presale condos (a glut of which finish construction in the coming months) will have huge cash flow problems and need desperately to dump them. In a building near his, one such speculator had to sell it back to the developer company haha.
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Femtosecond posted:Absolutely this. Outside of Vancouver/Victoria the economy of BC is garbage. With the view, this puppy would probably cost you a good two million in Vancouver: MLS 2421209 - note that it does have a suite if you need some extra income to carry the mortgage.
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Femtosecond posted:Absolutely this. Outside of Vancouver/Victoria the economy of BC is garbage. Lots of jobs up north, if you're a Chinese national. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...article6281852/
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Lmao you loving losers
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Jordan7hm posted:if you don't work in the public service or live in Orleans you don't need to speak french. Plus you could learn French, which is a cool and good language to speak. I can't speak for others, but as a product of the Ontario education system my nine years of French classes mostly consisted of verb conjugations and video lessons from a talking pineapple. So personally it'd basically be starting from scratch lol.
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Femtosecond posted:As an aside I was randomly panning the map around in realtor.ca and found the most absurd property. I didn't even know this island existed. No water, no electricity, extreme fire hazard, water access only and apparently almost no where on the island you can actually safely moor a boat. All that in mind and it's still $250k for a tiny slice of rocky bare land and this isn't even the side with a nice view of the city. With all those constraints I'm sure it'd be an interesting challenge to try to build something cool here though. Maybe I'll keep an eye on this weird island in case the market ever finally implodes and rich West Van people need to sell off some stuff. Ironically that island has a bunch of cabins on it and is pretty nice. Expensive as hell though (for reasons listed above) even before property mania hit the city.
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As a product of the BC school system, I can read enough French to get through a city OK. I can only speak like a caveman which I don't see any possible use for unless I was bartering after the apocalypse, and I can't understand anything spoken unless the person speaks like I'm retarded. Moral of the story...
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Femtosecond posted:Absolutely this. Outside of Vancouver/Victoria the economy of BC is garbage. No, at least nowhere which is habitable. The baseline price for housing in BC is now $300,000, which might as well be $20m if you're in some shithole like Bella Bella with an economy based around subsistence fishing and welfare payments. Raw land is usually between $800-$1000/acre, with the odd exceptions such as the tops of mountains in the kootenays or swampland in the central cariboo. I only know of a half-dozen "bargains" in the province and I don't tell anyone about them because I want to buy one in the next year or two and get out of the city for good. Passage island is a funny place, it was almost a mini-lasqueti before the new money started buying the hippies off in the late 1990's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_Island_(British_Columbia)
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namaste faggots posted:I was born in your loving country idiot Haha at bragging about your New Stock status
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What's another Han in the mix
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https://twitter.com/jhwfung/status/859205562378010624 loving lol. Fuerdai hires drillers to install a geothermal heating system. Burst an aquifer. City pays 10 million to fix it. Fuerdai forecloses and tells city lol.
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namaste faggots posted:https://twitter.com/jhwfung/status/859205562378010624 Time for a new head tax.
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namaste faggots posted:https://twitter.com/jhwfung/status/859205562378010624 Don't worry guys we levied $2 mil in property tax against the
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cowofwar posted:Lots of jobs up north, if you're a Chinese national. It loving owns how easily and seamlessly China is buying the country out from underneath us
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Pop-o-Matic Trouble posted:It loving owns how easily and seamlessly China is buying the country out from underneath us It is kind of hilarious in a way that a people who were so ruthlessly poo poo on back in the day, to the point where the country straight up was like "we don't want you here so much that we will charge you an entry fee, then relegate you to ethnic ghettos and treat you little better than slave labour" have ended up pulling such a brutal own 100+ years later. Natives just need to get their turn to dunk on whitey next for the circle to be complete.
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Why the gently caress do idiot BC rurals vote liberal when they're giving the resource sector away entirely to TFW's ? Wouldn't that sort of poo poo send them into a rage?
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The Butcher posted:It is kind of hilarious in a way that a people who were so ruthlessly poo poo on back in the day, to the point where the country straight up was like "we don't want you here so much that we will charge you an entry fee, then relegate you to ethnic ghettos and treat you little better than slave labour" have ended up pulling such a brutal own 100+ years later. we did opium wars to them so they're doing carfentanyl to us better than we deserve tbh
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Baronjutter posted:Why the gently caress do idiot BC rurals vote liberal when they're giving the resource sector away entirely to TFW's ? Wouldn't that sort of poo poo send them into a rage? Because a huge chunk of rural British Columbians are morons
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Baronjutter posted:Why the gently caress do idiot BC rurals vote liberal when they're giving the resource sector away entirely to TFW's ? Wouldn't that sort of poo poo send them into a rage? Because remember, the 90s was a dark time for everyone with the NDP in power and
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Glenn Clarks new deck was the peak of corruption, nothing since has even come close.
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https://twitter.com/wicary/status/859498157117505536
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Watch china buy $10b worth of real estate in 1 deal.
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Rime posted:Glenn Clarks new deck was the peak of corruption, nothing since has even come close. Oh so MLAs aren't entitled to affordable home renovations????
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If you actually read the provincial charter MLAs are entitled to a deck reno and a trip to Disneyland per year of service, a pig every month, and two comely lasses of virtue true.
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McGavin posted:a pig every month, and two comely lasses of virtue true. I can think of one way to economize.
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Not to be outdone by Toronto we have a Vancouver boat lyfe article. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...e-sea-full-time mashed fucked around with this message at 02:07 on May 3, 2017 |
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These are much more reasonable articles than the usual attempts to paint liveaboards and other alternative housing as mental illness of some sort.
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Baronjutter posted:Why the gently caress do idiot BC rurals vote liberal when they're giving the resource sector away entirely to TFW's ? Wouldn't that sort of poo poo send them into a rage? fast ferries Fast Ferries FAST FERRIES FAST FERRIES!!!!!!!!
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I'm looking forward to the dark ages of BC ushered in by the NDP. I got hammer pants waiting to break out of my closet.
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Rime posted:These are much more reasonable articles than the usual attempts to paint liveaboards and other alternative housing as mental illness of some sort. Living in a van
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/greater-vancouver-condo-prices-surge/article34877701/quote:
just fyi, the house committee on housing or re or whatever recommended that the federal government do nothing to affect the housing market. except work to make it easier for first time home buyers to get into the re market. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/committee-urges-ottawa-to-aid-first-time-home-buyers/article34709288/ quote:A nearly year-long parliamentary study of the Canadian housing market has concluded with a call for Ottawa to help first-time home buyers, but to otherwise stay on the sidelines. loving lol
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https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/859631418321850373 it's a good thing all those boomers are gifting money to their kids to save to look after their parents
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http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2017/05/02/buying-a-650000-condo-with-help-from-the-bc-government.htmlquote:Trading a rental for a $650,000 condo, with help from the B.C. government what kind of loving management consultant makes less than 150k/year https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasmitchell/?ppe=1 just loving lol if that's all EY is paying managers in charge of some national loving poo poo
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