misery at Vancouver housing cost?
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misery at Vancouver housing cost?
www.vancitybuzz.com
Interesting article on 150,000 families thinking of moving out of metro Vancouver due to the misery of housing costs....
Interesting article on 150,000 families thinking of moving out of metro Vancouver due to the misery of housing costs....
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Of those polled, 95% have a commute of 45+minutes, so they don't live in Vancouver anyway. So how would they move away if they don't live here?
http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uplo...ousing_ARI.pdf
http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uplo...ousing_ARI.pdf
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Do we have any BE members living in those blocks in the photo?
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Of those polled, 95% have a commute of 45+minutes, so they don't live in Vancouver anyway. So how would they move away if they don't live here?
http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uplo...ousing_ARI.pdf
http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uplo...ousing_ARI.pdf
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Seems a fairly pointless survey to me. The "Happy" segment tend to be retired / pre-retired (financially secure) individuals; whereas the "Miserable" segment are young,starting out, and struggling financially. Does it really require 49 pages for Angus Reid to explain all that. Perhaps it's just the segment names that are so uninspired.
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
A couple of years ago I was offered a job transfer to Vancouver. The company paid for me and my family to visit for a few days to look around and talk to some realtors and so on. One of the questions we asked was about school places and the consistent answer was that, if we could afford to live in any of the nice areas downtown (we couldn't without taking a big hit on space) then school places were no problem because every one of the schools had falling rolls. I don't know whether the number of people living down town is falling, but it's clear that the number of younger people there is in rapid decline.
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
I can drive downtown in 40-45 minutes and commute an hour. It is depressing.
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Of those polled, 95% have a commute of 45+minutes, so they don't live in Vancouver anyway. So how would they move away if they don't live here?
http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uplo...ousing_ARI.pdf
http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uplo...ousing_ARI.pdf
Well I can understand why people who bought at 100k and now have properties worth 2m are happy *jealous*
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Metro Vancouver comes out to Aldergrove. The survey is going to be skewed comparing families in Point Grey, West Van, Poco and ALdergrove. I'd be pissed off too if I had to live in Aldergrove.
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/Pages/default.aspx
Going east ends at Maple Ridge and Aldergrove, you also have smaller places like Bowen Island, and Lions Bay which are part of Metro Van.
Seems a fairly pointless survey to me. The "Happy" segment tend to be retired / pre-retired (financially secure) individuals; whereas the "Miserable" segment are young,starting out, and struggling financially. Does it really require 49 pages for Angus Reid to explain all that. Perhaps it's just the segment names that are so uninspired.
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
What don't you like in Aldergrove? Too small, too slow? Seemed ok in a small town kind of way to me, and far away from those oppressive mountains.