misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Aug 14th 2015, 1:34 pm
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Aug 14th 2015, 2:19 pm
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Aug 14th 2015, 8:46 pm
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Yes, but we can't make it work without my wife's disability which requires us to be in BC. We look around BC but not many places that are affordable and offer jobs, seems to be one or the other.
Cheap living but no jobs, jobs but high cost of living.
I don't have the earning power to double my income which is what we would need to do to move elsewhere and lose disability.
Looking to move to Vancouver was simply to have the ability to access some needed mental health treatment not available where we are, but to access it in Vancouver you have to live in the City of Vancouver.
We were going to go to a private treatment place, but financially it wasn't doable since it was going to be 600-700 per month for 6 months, and we couldn't come up with the funds needed, we tried though.
If you don't have a medication treatable mental health condition, it is extremely difficult to access the treatment you need via the public health system, they lack the time and resources to deal with it.
Cheap living but no jobs, jobs but high cost of living.
I don't have the earning power to double my income which is what we would need to do to move elsewhere and lose disability.
Looking to move to Vancouver was simply to have the ability to access some needed mental health treatment not available where we are, but to access it in Vancouver you have to live in the City of Vancouver.
We were going to go to a private treatment place, but financially it wasn't doable since it was going to be 600-700 per month for 6 months, and we couldn't come up with the funds needed, we tried though.
If you don't have a medication treatable mental health condition, it is extremely difficult to access the treatment you need via the public health system, they lack the time and resources to deal with it.
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Aug 14th 2015, 9:45 pm
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Aug 15th 2015, 12:53 am
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Yes, but we can't make it work without my wife's disability which requires us to be in BC. We look around BC but not many places that are affordable and offer jobs, seems to be one or the other.
Cheap living but no jobs, jobs but high cost of living.
I don't have the earning power to double my income which is what we would need to do to move elsewhere and lose disability.
Looking to move to Vancouver was simply to have the ability to access some needed mental health treatment not available where we are, but to access it in Vancouver you have to live in the City of Vancouver.
We were going to go to a private treatment place, but financially it wasn't doable since it was going to be 600-700 per month for 6 months, and we couldn't come up with the funds needed, we tried though.
If you don't have a medication treatable mental health condition, it is extremely difficult to access the treatment you need via the public health system, they lack the time and resources to deal with it.
Cheap living but no jobs, jobs but high cost of living.
I don't have the earning power to double my income which is what we would need to do to move elsewhere and lose disability.
Looking to move to Vancouver was simply to have the ability to access some needed mental health treatment not available where we are, but to access it in Vancouver you have to live in the City of Vancouver.
We were going to go to a private treatment place, but financially it wasn't doable since it was going to be 600-700 per month for 6 months, and we couldn't come up with the funds needed, we tried though.
If you don't have a medication treatable mental health condition, it is extremely difficult to access the treatment you need via the public health system, they lack the time and resources to deal with it.
Aug 15th 2015, 8:14 am
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
I looked online trying to find pet friendly rentals there on various websites, and doesn't appear to be much there rental wise that will accept pets. I've never been there, but very little coming up rental wise, and the few that did, are not in Cranbrook or the same rent we pay now...lol
Aug 15th 2015, 3:57 pm
#173
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Minimum wage should get you further out that way from what i can see. It has an "International Airport". The Scenery is stunning. Although if you can't find a rental that's suitable for you...
Aug 16th 2015, 3:41 am
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Here is some more fuel for the fire
Foreign buyers snatch Vancouver land with no immediate plan to develop - The Globe and Mail
Foreign buyers snatch Vancouver land with no immediate plan to develop - The Globe and Mail
Aug 16th 2015, 9:57 am
#175
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Here is some more fuel for the fire
Foreign buyers snatch Vancouver land with no immediate plan to develop - The Globe and Mail
Foreign buyers snatch Vancouver land with no immediate plan to develop - The Globe and Mail
Aug 16th 2015, 9:51 pm
#176
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Parts of the Cambie corridor are starting to look like a ghetto with all the empty boarded up houses, some have signs saying condos coming soon, but the city really should require the developers to do something, it's really becoming a eye sore in some parts of the city with all the empty houses.
Aug 17th 2015, 6:58 pm
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Parts of the Cambie corridor are starting to look like a ghetto with all the empty boarded up houses, some have signs saying condos coming soon, but the city really should require the developers to do something, it's really becoming a eye sore in some parts of the city with all the empty houses.
Aug 19th 2015, 2:41 pm
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Aug 19th 2015, 4:50 pm
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
Sort of. SFO and NYC are kind of tech bubbly right now compared to the rest of the country it seems.
Aug 19th 2015, 10:35 pm
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Re: misery at Vancouver housing cost?
But a fair amount of people native to San Diego feel the same, hard to like LA when San Diego is where you grew up.
San Diego has it's urban sprawl, but thankfully can never really reach LA size due to geography and a couple large military bases. But if Camp Pendleton ever closes, well Orange County and San Diego County would probably just become one big mass, right now there is a no mans land between the 2 counties because of the Marine base.
Never really thought of LA as being a tech place, were they a big tech place or are they? (I know aerospace used to be a decent size there, and San Diego even, but not sure there are much if any aerospace left in either.)
I like San Francisco though, if I had a 6 figure income, it would be towards the top of my ideal city list to live.