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Frosted Flake posted:They've done this for some historical buildings. this is pretty cool
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be sure to visit the D&D canada housing thread in which heritage preservation is seen as Bad and Restricts Housing Supply
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Hubbert posted:be sure to visit the D&D canada housing thread in which heritage preservation is seen as Bad and Restricts Housing Supply man you are really selling that thread
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Bilirubin posted:man you are really selling that thread luxury thread is a slur
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Karach posted:I would simply escape market forces by moving into co-op housing lol this was a thing had a coworker who started in a co-op as a starving artist and kept the same place even after she was making six figs
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Durf posted:lol this was a thing They're legit, just really rare. My wife was on the board of a big one here, a huge purpose built facility with a big common room, library, workshop, and gym. We're finally ready to move into it but we've been at the top of the waiting list for more than a year and nothing has become available. Who wants to move out from a place where you just pay a fraction of the operating costs into a housing environment with 8% interest and eye-watering principals?
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Suplex Liberace posted:this is pretty cool I think it's insanely cool and would be a great way to preserve Canadian architecture and the character of our neighbourhoods and cities.
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cock hero flux posted:theoretically the point of home ownership is that you own your home and don't have to throw a big chunk of your paycheck into a bottomless pit every month to not be homeless but with how mortgages work now you're basically paying for the privilege of doing your own maintenance Disagree. As of current housing crisis, the major point of home ownership by a long shot is that as long as you continue paying no one can force you out of your home for 'personal use' or renovictions or any other slumlord bs. 2nd reason is being able to do whatever you want with your home and not being at the whims of the landlord who's sure that the air leakage is fine as you pay $800/month in heating. Finances are pretty low on the list of reasons to buy a home. Suplex Liberace posted:open concept my entire rear end in a top hat I think open-concept means different things to different people but to me the 'open' idea applies to the trifecta of kitchen/dining/living and then nothing else. Closing off those rooms from each other makes no sense to me but still need some kind of dividing line I think, not just a completely open zone.
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I'm not sure if either owning or renting is good from a personal finance perspective anymore. Everything is stupidly overpriced but rents are out of control too. I was evicted for owner's own use a few years ago and my rent went up $500/mo after I moved. If I get evicted today I'm looking at an approx. $750 increase this time. Having to move sucked but from a finance perspective it was very punishing. If we get evicted again I'm not sure what we'll do.
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Cold on a Cob posted:I'm not sure if either owning or renting is good from a personal finance perspective anymore. Everything is stupidly overpriced but rents are out of control too. refuse to leave. not sure if you’re in Ontario but only the landlord and tenant board can evict you. and that could take months to years. so no matter what. until the landlord and tenant board tell you to go. you never ever go.
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Fidelitious posted:. That is what i was talking about. Every house ive lived in had all of those walled off from each other. The way god intended, walls and doors
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Suplex Liberace posted:That is what i was talking about. Every house ive lived in had all of those walled off from each other. The way god intended, walls and doors I wonder if the open concept trend will eventually die out. I hate the idea of living in a giant studio apartment where the living and cooking spaces are combined. There’s all kinds of noise , grease, and odor that’s better kept contained in the kitchen, but literally every new home built, and most renovations as well, disagree with me on this.
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having a large open social space where you don't all have to decide to pile into one room while someone preps food/snacks/drinks is actually pretty nice. goons, naturally, have no use for this.
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funny song about politics posted:I wonder if the open concept trend will eventually die out. I hate the idea of living in a giant studio apartment where the living and cooking spaces are combined. There’s all kinds of noise , grease, and odor that’s better kept contained in the kitchen, but literally every new home built, and most renovations as well, disagree with me on this. i mean it isn’t an objective truth room layout aside that grease and odor happens because you have subpar ventilation in the kitchen and should be considered a separate issue from whether you want an open layout. and open layouts are popular because people often congregate in the kitchen when company is over so it makes sense for many to have fewer restrictions on the space mediaphage has issued a correction as of 16:31 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Fidelitious posted:Disagree. As of current housing crisis, the major point of home ownership by a long shot is that as long as you continue paying no one can force you out of your home for 'personal use' or renovictions or any other slumlord bs.
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mediaphage posted:i mean it isn’t an objective truth Yeah it’s true that this is what the market expects. We live in a 70 year old house with a very old fashioned layout and I can’t keep guests out of the kitchen even though it’s a small, closed off room all the way in the back of the house. Still, I generally enjoy the way it contains the mess and lets me focus on cooking without getting involved with what’s happening in the rest of the house. Different strokes.
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cock hero flux posted:there are a number of ways you can be forced out of a home that you are paid up on and theoretically own. Hell there are even a few ways you can be forced out of a home that you have completely paid off and actually literally own. yeah but it's far more likely an occurrence when you rent versus when you have a mortgage.
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I always thought open concept was popular because our homes are constantly growing smaller while increasing in price and it gives the illusion of space?
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i live in a tiny 700 sq ft house thats closed off in every way possible and its loving great to have separate spaces and privacy
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drat horror queefs posted:I always thought open concept was popular because our homes are constantly growing smaller while increasing in price and it gives the illusion of space?  it increases serendipitous collaboration(aka is cheaper)
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Me reaping me sowing etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ocQ7W2twCo
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drat horror queefs posted:I always thought open concept was popular because our homes are constantly growing smaller while increasing in price and it gives the illusion of space? The answer is more stupid than you think! https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dmbm3/open-concept-plans-popular-hgtv-men-love-sledgehammers quote:“I spoke with HGTV executives,” Kaysen said on NPR at the end of 2019. “And the reason that they are so big on open concept is because it gets the male viewers. Like, guys like to watch sledgehammers and, like, taking out walls.” She added that HGTV decision makers feel that straight men won’t sit down with their girlfriends and wives for an hour of tchotkes and bathroom upgrades if they can’t catch a little sledgehammer action along the way. “It’s for TV,” Kaysen said.
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New AG report dropped Shockingly, it turns out the government lied about the total cost of the Therme spa deal and the whole reason the Science Centre has to move is to fudge the cost of the absurdly large parking garage they want to build under the water table. Whoever could have guessed?
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Another Bill posted:The answer is more stupid than you think! Okay nvm now I'm pro open concept
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a primate posted:They should just cut the sin tax on alcohol, at least in Ontario. Consumption taxes are incredibly regressive and should be done away with. The thing is, most of the smalltown craft brewers make under 2,000 hL. In fact, there are precious few of the remaining 349 breweries in the province that are between 5,000 hL and 75,000 hL. I can count them on one hand. Legitimately, you could scrap all of the excise paid at the provincial level by those breweries and it'd be something like... 30 million bucks? They contribute that to the economy just in employee income tax payment. If you let them grow a little bit by giving them a tax break, you'd eventually have a lot more excise.
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mediaphage posted:i mean it isn’t an objective truth Even then open concept is fail imo (the correct one). Not a true kitchen party if peopleplaying cards at the table aren't awkwardly forced to sit in the corner between the radiator you can't turn off and the stove you very much intend but never quite get around to cleaning
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Fidelitious posted:I think open-concept means different things to different people but to me the 'open' idea applies to the trifecta of kitchen/dining/living and then nothing else. I have this in my apartment, and it rocks, but I once had a student from France walk in for the first time and start laughing. She called it "an American kitchen" 
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Actually Instagram has started targeting me with GTA realtor influencer content despite being a guy who’s only ever lived in the maritimes so now I think that l*xury condos are Actually Good. https://twitter.com/friendshalifax/status/1732419020458979342 First they came for a block of fast-food and pizza shops, and I said nothing, for I did not want a Roethlisburger and a Stuffed Poutine from Xtreme. ElehemEare has issued a correction as of 05:47 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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ElehemEare posted:Actually Instagram has started targeting me with GTA realtor influencer content despite being a guy who’s only ever lived in the maritimes so now I think that l*xury condos are Actually Good. Oh man I almost moved into a really great two bedroom above that Subway like three years ago. It was only 900ish lol. Then I was walking by one day and noticed the development proposal poster on the side and went 'oh, I see'. Anyway it'd be a shame to lose Mary's Place their breakfast is really good In fact there's quite a few apartments nestled in those buildings and they still generally hover in 1200-1400 range. Gee I wonder if the rents in the new 30 storey glass and steel condo towers will be comparable (lol). The only part of the city getting gentrified harder than Gottingen is Spring Garden but I guess all those Dal students have the (parental) money to afford it edit: oh poo poo that's also where Jean's is. Losing the best Chinese food in the city so Dexel can build apartments nobody can afford ftmfw, lets end this housing crisis baybee DaysBefore has issued a correction as of 14:52 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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ElehemEare posted:Actually Instagram has started targeting me with GTA realtor influencer content despite being a guy who’s only ever lived in the maritimes so now I think that l*xury condos are Actually Good. It takes some real gumption to proclaim that replacing 2 floors of dilapidated housing and fast food joints with 60 stories of housing has no benefit in a housing crisis.
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I had also read somewhere (I can't remember where though) that open-concept kitchens were all-the-rage back in the mid 2000's, as filming a renovation with wide open spaces is easier than if it is in a tight location. Especially if the filming equipment was big and bulky. So "open concept" renovations were much more likely to be filmed on TV, which also helped to improve thejr desire. Of course, it's not a new thing... My grandmother's farmhouse - an old home built in the 1800's - is one bug room that juts out of the main house - complete with wood oven connections, outside pantry access, and a door to go out onto the porch for laundy (as well as the stairs to go down to heat the wood stove). The only way into the main house was a small closeable door to keep out the noise that all her kids would make.
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DaysBefore posted:edit: oh poo poo that's also where Jean's is. Losing the best Chinese food in the city so Dexel can build apartments nobody can afford ftmfw, lets end this housing crisis baybee making the city objectively shittier to live in and destroying all of its character (I see you Refs and Video Difference…) but also making it more expensive so number go up Tim Houston is just an avatar of the Nova Scotian “buisness class” best exemplified by that family from Mabou that caused an international incident because they couldn’t smoke on the plane
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Fidelitious posted:It takes some real gumption to proclaim that replacing 2 floors of dilapidated housing and fast food joints with 60 stories of housing has no benefit in a housing crisis. when that housing is gonna start at 2000/unit I’m Halifax yes you certainly can. probably fine for the Toronto based computer touchera and untenable even if you work for one of the few major private employers the city has
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The Halifax shipyards pay ~37$/hr iirc. 2000$ rent is only like half of that.
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Oh then I guess it's all solved then. If you get one of the very few jobs at the shipyards you can give half your income to a landlord. Stack those towers up boys!!
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Thanking the Job Creators at Irving for their generosity in these trying times
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maybe instead of employing half of Canada in the business of selling homes to each other we should employ have of Canada in the business of making cheap or free public housing, idk just spitballing
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Isentropy posted:probably fine for the Toronto based computer touchera it really isn't
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