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Mr. Wynand posted:I'd probably move to Amsterdam though. Prices look... less insane and dutch seems like a weird fusion of german and english, I hear it's not too bad to pick up. The missus would miss her family though. I just came from there and it'd be a cool place to move to. It's so heavily English already that you would have plenty of time to learn Dutch instead of being thrown to the wolves and it's a great city. Small city though, and it's wet, though a wet city wouldn't matter as much if you're coming from Vancouver.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Errybody want a new car These figures really highlight the danger of trying to keep up with the Joneses. The Joneses can't even keep up with themselves. I may not have a house, I may not have a car, but being debt-free feels pretty drat good.
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Nov 25, 2013 16:44
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Baronjutter posted:Most trump projects have absolutely nothing to do with the "man" anyways. They just buy the "Trump" naming rights to slap on their project. Case in point: You can buy Trump mattresses. I know because I have one. Am I a millionaire? No, the Trump mattress is an average consumer level product that uses his brand.
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Nov 26, 2013 19:27
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How is there not video of a bunch of the Vancouver business and political elite all miming sperm just like Homer Simpson?
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Dec 7, 2013 20:42
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The sad thing will be if they're all eventually correct in a roundabout way if things go south harshly enough that homeowners need bailouts which of course means that anyone who doesn't own will be helping to bail out those who do. I'm not exactly laughing here in my rental apartment thinking about a possible crash.
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Jan 10, 2014 03:35
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In talking with other people about housing prices, would it be at all accurate to use the analogy of an auction house where everyone is given double the amount of money they walked in with? The same number of items would be on sale (representing more or less static supply of housing) but since everyone has more money to play with everyone's going to end up paying more even though the items themselves haven't changed. I come across people who don't seem to get that housing prices didn't use to rise like this and that Toronto (or wherever you may be) hasn't become so much more desirable that it would justify the crazy listing prices.
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Jan 10, 2014 15:25
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Franks Happy Place posted:Yes, this is the good analogy to use. And we all choose to listen to the experts who say nothing's wrong... even though they have a vested interest in selling him more cheeseburgers.
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Jan 10, 2014 20:20
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Kraftwerk posted:Maybe you guys can help me. Im in my mid 20s and I commute into Toronto every day via the 401. I want to shorten my commute or decrease the hassle. How much should I be paying in rent for Toronto at 45k per year? What area should I be living in? Im seeing all these really old rickety apartments going for 1300+. Its ridiculous. Depends where you work, how long your commute is. If your commute is already an hour there are plenty of places to live within the city that won't shorten that commute time.
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Feb 5, 2014 21:06
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I can go weeks without ever getting into a car or stepping on public transit, and yet I want for nothing. One of many reasons why I love living downtown.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:10
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They could also just be terribly run businesses.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:16
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Antifreeze Head posted:I only buy silver because if it's a werewolf apocalypse instead of zombies, I'm loving set. This is why my bomb shelter is stocked entirely with Coors Light.
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Feb 26, 2014 16:51
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Alberta Cross posted:The patriotic Canadian in me would be loathe to live somewhere called Liberty Village, it sounds so American. Pretty cool name it sounds like to me: quote:"Liberty Street", for which Liberty Village is named, was the first street both male and female convicts would walk once freed.
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Mar 8, 2014 22:16
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Huge+demand+tiny+rental+units+Vancouver/9628610/story.html "Hey Millenials! You love backpacking around the world in hostels, right? Well now you can bring that experience back home!"
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Mar 18, 2014 16:27
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Baronjutter posted:Why do you need to move every couple years if renting? According to my landlord the average tenancy period in our building is 7 years, with quite a few being here 20+. If there are rent controls, yes, but those aren't everywhere or for everything. In Toronto there are a few different rules, the main one being that if your building was built after 1991 price protections are far fewer, if any exist at all.
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Mar 25, 2014 19:08
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Cheap housing a GO train ride away from Toronto.
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Apr 25, 2014 03:40
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Wasting posted:If you don't mind spending four hours a day on the train Not that I'd want to do either but I'd rather on the train than in a car. My old boss does that commute on the train everyday and he at least gets to tool around on his laptop the whole time.
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Apr 25, 2014 04:00
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Maybe this is a stupid question but can you legally auction your house? Put up a "FOR SALE" sign on my lawn, with a date and time where you can come into my backyard and I'll sell to the highest bidder?
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Apr 25, 2014 20:12
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Kafka Esq. posted:How the hell do they get rid of the Aura after 20-30 years? Kafka Esq. posted:It's almost 300 meters tall. You do it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbzVfLWQNkA&t=17s
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Apr 27, 2014 22:54
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etalian posted:lol And every now and then, lobby your municipal politicians to get rid of homes for mentally disabled children.
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May 20, 2014 03:45
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PT6A posted:Jesus, they suggest doing nice things for people and you automatically jump to the most pathological cases of people trying to protect land values? That's a bit unreasonable, don't you think? It's a topical reference. Call me cynical for making the link but it's not like I'm imagining this stuff. Edit: For something more than a back-and-forth about posting, here's some interesting content I read a few days ago: http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/tokyo-housing-high-rise-cost-new-york-housing quote:Last month, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government released new housing data, offering an eye into the most active construction market in the developed world. quote:In 2012, builders in Tokyo’s 23 innermost wards began construction on nearly 110,000 new houses and apartments. Put into context, the numbers are astounding. England has 53 million people spread over 50,000 square miles of territory — six times the population of Tokyo’s wards and orders of magnitude more land — but on housing, England barely kept up with the much smaller area. The entire country saw just 115,000 new housing starts in 2012. quote:Tokyo is the closest thing this planet has to a city that has completely surrendered itself to market forces. And its construction numbers show it. ...And there’s no economic problem in Japan that the government doesn’t think deregulation can’t ameliorate. Building regulations are constantly being loosened to spur economic growth. quote:However, even though construction in the capital has not been the economic panacea that politicians hoped... The laws of supply and demand have worked, and prices are relatively low — Japan’s two megacities (the Tokyo and Osaka regions) are more affordable than any in the English-speaking world (including Hong Kong and Singapore), with rents in Tokyo actually falling slightly over the past decade. Lobok fucked around with this message at 15:27 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 15:18
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They can just dismiss it as talking about the home's value, not the owners' profits. Edit: Though of course the second half-truth is that the increase in value is only realized upon actually selling the place.
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May 26, 2014 19:14
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Is the picture cut off? I'm seeing a lot of asterisks but no fine print.
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May 30, 2014 14:48
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FrozenVent posted:Personally I wouldn't mind having daily maid service, but I doubt that's included. Room service and concierge. And by concierge I don't mean the "concierge" of most condo buildings, which is just a dude watching the elevator cameras, but an actual hotel concierge who has both knowledge and influence when it comes to attractions and restaurants.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:23
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peter banana posted:that's funny because I see concierges as sort of a leftover from another era. They may have been useful before the Internet, but now they're just bought off by local restaurants. If I want to find a good sushi place in Toronto, I'd check BlogTo or "CityEquivelent" before I went out. If you're a millionaire you're probably not the type to pull out your phone to look through blogTO. And that's just part of what a concierge does for a hotel guest. Plus if you actually live there, between the concierges and property managers they do all kinds of bend-over-backwards favours for you. Try getting a rental apartment super to organize a birthday party for your poodle.
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Jun 2, 2014 21:07
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Toronto won't enact any kind of tax or cooling-off measure on home sales anytime soon. During the last and current administrations Toronto's long-term budgets were shifted more and more to rely on land transfer tax revenues. If those revenues ever go down, at all, there will be massive budget craters to fill. Ohhhh, that's Norman Bethune? Yeah I've seen him on the news quite a bit.
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China built a replica of the whole town of Halstatt, Austria. Cargo cult Old World European charm. The trailer doesn't go into it much, but this is the documentary I saw about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWKJ-Q2buE
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Oct 3, 2016 17:31
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Twerk from Home posted:Economists don't give a poo poo about political realities or what is feasible: They say that taxes discourage things so why discourage income? Then farther down they say to tax consumption. So we want to discourage people from buying goods or services and that will be better for the economy.
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Oct 3, 2016 18:13
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Femtosecond posted:A typical condo building is already 60%+ rental. People buy them as investments so that they can rent them out. Removing rent control would potentially make these investments more lucrative, which would likely result in increased demand for condos and in developers being extra incentivized to create condos vs rental. Condos also have the cap gains advantage and depending on your city, a municipal property tax advantage.
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Oct 3, 2016 21:11
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Risky Bisquick posted:Every condo has a municipal property tax advantage, it's called deferral until sold. I meant the whole building itself pays less in municipal property taxes each year. If you take two structures that are exactly the same and one is high-rise rental and one is high-rise condo the latter pays less each year.
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Oct 3, 2016 21:24
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Risky Bisquick posted:Don't discount the power of white privilege being projected nationally. Obama had to contend with racism and we all knew Hillary would contend with sexism instead. Funny in a way that she also having to contend with racism.
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Oct 6, 2016 18:59
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namaste faggots posted:jesus gently caress you guys just get a robo-advisor I tried but anytime I asked him what to invest in he said that I should definitely short human life and then he would laugh that metallic vocoder laugh of his.
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Oct 6, 2016 19:41
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Baronjutter posted:I really wish we still built proper row houses anymore. Just take an existing single family home block, divide all the lots in 2 or 3, and build a street wall of individually owned no loving strata involved row houses. You can take your increased density and shove it up your rear end you commie libtard.
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Oct 15, 2016 22:33
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Furnaceface posted:Class Mobility In Canada Has this ever been how class mobility worked? Trading up into more expensive houses? Seems like getting better jobs gives you upward class mobility.
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Oct 17, 2016 21:09
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MickeyFinn posted:This is the usual dumb poo poo where someone looks at the correlation between housing and positive life outcomes and thinks that housing begets the latter rather than comes from it. I suppose it could work if you profited enough from your previous home that you can use those profits to pay a large enough chunk of the principal on your next home to drive down your mortgage payments and effectively be making (keeping) significantly more income. But I'm assuming people don't do that and instead keep their payments in the same range and use the profits to get as expensive a home as they can. Or she's saying class mobility but really means moving into better neighbourhoods. Lobok fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Maneck posted:They also use less water than sink washing. It is also possible to purchase dishwashers which connect to a sink. They take up valuable counter space, but yeah. My friend had one in his last apartment because he had counter space to spare.
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Oct 18, 2016 19:31
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Come to Romania for the RE-Mania!
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Oct 18, 2016 20:33
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Lexicon posted:Why should anyone give a gently caress about whether or not an office/complex is used for "digital" businesses or not? It's either a viable business or it isn't (and knowing Vancouver, more likely the latter)... what possible advantage could be argued to result from having a bullshit, artificial, trendy restriction? Possibly they're anticipating push-back from the area's community when midrise office buildings or towers are proposed and city staff and politicians can say "no guys these buildings won't be full of just regular ol' office jobs, they'll be our super special competitive advantage coders who make Vancouver great!" That's somewhat of a non-cynical answer, when really it just seems like a straight-up handout to the landowners to be able to maximize development profits.
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Oct 19, 2016 16:56
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My office building is a fraction of the size and holds 500-600.
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Oct 21, 2016 19:00
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Mozi posted:33 percent of those aged 55 to 64 having under $1000 in retirement savings is a bit incredible. So what are the odds we'll be bailing out a poo poo-ton of seniors from poverty?
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Brannock posted:I'm kind of glad my parents are young enough that there's a good chance we figure out robot caretakers before they go decrepit. Oh, I'm fully invested. Invested too much into it, really. Emotionally, I mean.
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