So, real estate investments are more important to people than affordable housing for common folk?
People need to downsize their expectations, this is the future.
The govt is devaluing our dollar. The Chinese are just taking advantage of it.This thread has everything to do with affordable housing for the common folk. Those $million houses in Vancouver should be within reach for the working stiff. The Orientals are devaluing our dollar!
The govt is devaluing our dollar. The Chinese are just taking advantage of it.
This thread has everything to do with affordable housing for the common folk. Those $million houses in Vancouver should be within reach for the working stiff. The Orientals are devaluing our dollar!
The price is what the market will bear. If you can't afford a house don't buy one and don't begrudge those who are able to afford it.
Some will argue the Unions are devaluing our dollar. (Glad to see you survived the evening, Nick, I was getting a little worried about you)
The price is what the market will bear. If you can't afford a house don't buy one and don't begrudge those who are able to afford it.
Let's see if I survive the day...LOL
Then why aren't the prices falling if 85% want to leave? Poppype-nis.I'm going to pull a flossy....
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/06/...eave-metro-vancouver-over-housing-costs-poll/
No, the market can't bear this.
85% of 'miserable' families ready to leave Metro Vancouver over housing costs: poll
I'm all for affordable housing but what is one's definition of that. I hear all these kids complaining about affordability but they want the 30th floor condo overlooking Stanley park or a modest 5000 sq ft on Westwood plateau. My first house was 50 years old with 2 br & 1 bath and 850 sq ft. It needed a ton of work so I didn't have a weekend or a holiday or spending money for a couple of years but it was mine and it was home. The younger generations need to come to terms that they aren't going to buy their parents house in Kitsalano and instead look for that fixer-upper in Aldergrove or old condo in the Burnaby backwaters and commute like most of us did 30 years ago.
You have to go to Chilliwack now and there are no fixer uppers left. They all got fixed up or torn down.
That might be a 'phrase' that does apply to something that has needed fixing for a long time but nobody knows how to do it.What's wrong with this picture? Does it need the "Trump Fix"?