The disease known as modern life

[ladyluck]

No it isn't. It is an independent world study group who does the survey. In facy this year we were ranked #3 in the world and it was on cnn.com
Get your facts staright and if you don't like it, housing is very affordable in Winnipeg..................Enjoy!

Housing isn't affordable here. How about you get your facts straight.
Our minimum wage is along the lines of I don't know $8.30 an hour. Compared to out west, that pennies.
Our housing market is through the roof. I dare you to come here and find a house, if you can. They are sold within days of being on the market at an unrealistic price.
Your plain little simple 2 bedroom will go for over $200 grand.
But Then if you want to live in the North end with all the drug dealer's, SW, shootings every other day. You might be able to pick up a house for $140 grand. That's probably with a few windows that need replacing and the whole house needs fumigation.

 

[turquine]

Vancouver's a "shithole"?!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
*DEEP BREATH*
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

If you really believe that I suggest you give your head a good shake and look around! I've lived in over a dozen major cities in my life, from New York to Hong Kong to London to Toronto...you have NO IDEA how good you have it here!

Yeah, Vancouver is expensive, but it's NOTHING compared to San Francisco or Los Angeles. "But it costs a million plus to get into a house in Vancouver!" BOO HOO oh CRY ME A RIVER. In San Fran you'd be lucky to find a dog box for that!

Grass is always greener I guess. In many ways, Vancouver is an urbanite's dream.

 

[Ima]

mmmmm I'd say tongue please but you'd better be prepared to come to my place and finish what you started... and don't forget your wallet LOL

No wallet? then a nice peck would be awesome


xoxo
Nina

Every man has a wallet... But the size of the wallet varies...

 

[visiting]

mmmmm I'd say tongue please but you'd better be prepared to come to my place and finish what you started... and don't forget your wallet LOL

No wallet? then a nice peck would be awesome


xoxo
Nina

Pick Pocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AA_Train]

Vancouver's a "shithole"?!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
*DEEP BREATH*
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

If you really believe that I suggest you give your head a good shake and look around! I've lived in over a dozen major cities in my life, from New York to Hong Kong to London to Toronto...you have NO IDEA how good you have it here!

Yeah, Vancouver is expensive, but it's NOTHING compared to San Francisco or Los Angeles. "But it costs a million plus to get into a house in Vancouver!" BOO HOO oh CRY ME A RIVER. In San Fran you'd be lucky to find a dog box for that!

Grass is always greener I guess. In many ways, Vancouver is an urbanite's dream.

Yes, Vancouver is a good place to live but it used to be a great place to live. And if Vancouver is the gold standard or a gold standard for major cities in this world, then that must mean standards of living are falling in the world. Sure maybe before we were a little spoiled but if Vancouver was say a 9.5/10 15 years ago and today its a 7 and the rest of the world is a five or less, while it's still better than average, it's quality has declined. Let's get things back to the way they used to be or at least somewhere near it so resident Vancouverites can prosper instead of just getting by.

 

[ladyluck]

lol...200k gets you a matchbox here....compare that same 200k codo there to one here downtown. It's very easy to do....I accept your appology
Anyone making $8.30 an hour can't buy a house anywhere...so not quite sure what that has to do with anything?

I don't see where I apologized, .
Our minimum wage is pennies to what you guys make out west.
When I applied for my mortgage. I was given up to $85,000 to buy a house, this was 10 yrs ago. I was averaging around $60,000 a year.
So you tell me if you work for minimum wage here, after taxes and deductions. That would probably give you oh lets just say $250 a week. Yup you bet, I know the bank would be treating me extra special, I'm sure we'd even be on first name basis.
No sorry they would be, Your income for the year is to low at this point in time. Come back and see us when the housing market has made a huge drop.
What it has to do with is you telling someone to move here, cause our housing is cheap here.
I have a friend whom bought a house for $29,000, Then when our real estate rocketed. She turned around and sold it for 3 times that amount. Basic tiny 2 bedroom, maybe a whopping 600 sq feet. I'm sure now that house is in the $200,000 dollar range.

 

[turquine]

Let's get things back to the way they used to be or at least somewhere near it so resident Vancouverites can prosper instead of just getting by.

Ain't gonna happen. For the first time in history, there are more people living in urban centres than rural areas. The migration of rural to urban will only continue over time. Vancouver is expensive because there is nowhere else to build but up. This is the reality of living in a gorgeous space that is bracketed by ocean on one side and mountains on the other.

Vancouverites can prosper just fine, but you'll have to do it in Chilliwack or Hope or Penticton. Unless you're one of the ones that are willing to pay a landlord $2000 a month rent for a 400 sq ft apartment in Yaletown because you're "entitled" to live where it's hip.

 

[goingolfing]

the part that confuses me about Winnipeg guy's rant, (about the $8.30 an hour being pennies compared to out west), is that minimum wage out here is $8.00 an hour (unless you're first job/entry level, then it's $6.00).

 

[MustardMan]

This is so true. Vancouver is a pleasent city to look at and thats it! The quality of life here is great if you can afford it.

Ding..ding..ding! We have a winner. That's it in a nutshell. The best city in the world thing is propaganda as the person before you said from the Tourism and Real Estate people. It's far from best city for the average working person. If your rich and just visit your Downtown Condo a few weeks a year in the summer it is great.

I think the Winter Olympics will help to erase a lot of the misconseptions. It's gonna be in Feb/March which are like the highest rainfall periods in Vancouver. Mark my words, the media will start calling Vanoc 2010 the Rain Olympics.

 

[MustardMan]

I wonder how Vancouver would look and feel like if the hugh Asian influence wasnt here? How much less would housing be and all you white guys that love to poon on the yellow ladies where would you go now? Come on its gave and take just everything in life.

Give us your young poon trying to get legit papers, take your money out of your expensive houses and leave. That's give and take.

Seriously, I don't have a problem with immigration but there is something seriously wrong when you can drive around Vancouver at night and see all the condo towers and expensive homes dark all over the place even though they are owned by somebody somewhere. These are not Canadians that own most of these places and they don't live here full time.

Go to Seattle and there is life everywhere. People living and working there. Vancouver just is not like that at all. Downtown used to be kind of cool but now it doesn't fell the same. Only place that feels about the same is E Hastings and well, it's the same shithole. Now maybe THAT place could use a few high end condo's to clean up the place even if most of the owners won't live there full time. I think developers should be required to put in something upscale around E Hastings if they want to do something upscale somewhere else.

Give and take.

 

[AA_Train]

Ain't gonna happen. For the first time in history, there are more people living in urban centres than rural areas. The migration of rural to urban will only continue over time. Vancouver is expensive because there is nowhere else to build but up. This is the reality of living in a gorgeous space that is bracketed by ocean on one side and mountains on the other.

Vancouverites can prosper just fine, but you'll have to do it in Chilliwack or Hope or Penticton. Unless you're one of the ones that are willing to pay a landlord $2000 a month rent for a 400 sq ft apartment in Yaletown because you're "entitled" to live where it's hip.

The point of this thread is to try to inspire some change and think about what we've lost and find ways to get it back and/or make it better than it is now or was before. So we should all just sell our souls to Satan because it's more convinient that way? We should let our rights, freedom and quality of life be co-opted by the all mighty dollar? No thank you.

 

[turquine]

The point of this thread is to try to inspire some change and think about what we've lost and find ways to get it back and/or make it better than it is now or was before. So we should all just sell our souls to Satan because it's more convinient that way? We should let our rights, freedom and quality of life be co-opted by the all mighty dollar? No thank you.

I didn't say that at all. What I did say was that the change you seek is unlikely to happen, no matter how fine your intentions. Hey, if you can find a way, more power to you, seriously. I'll even metaphorically throw confetti.

Bitching about what Vancouver is today and mooning over how it "used to be" isn't even mildly inspiring, but that's just me. YMMV.