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Those new blood pressure machines are a god send, i too suffer from "white coat hypertension", my machine takes 3 readings at 30second intervals then sends the average to an app on my smart phone. My GP does not even take my BP any more i just show him the phone and he can see daily/ weekly/ monthly results and he is quite happy with that.

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Mine was diagnosed with high blood pressure not long after we moved here - in fact I think it was the PR medical that brought it up, I wish he would actually take his medications EVERY day not just sporadically, I try not to nag but it does worry me.

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Sometimes I wonder if there's something in the air in Canada.:(

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We wonder too, there are products he uses at work that were banned in the UK YEARS ago. All the stuff that's pumped into the air is a worry too.

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Sounds like drug addiction. :blink:

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Especially with MS, Canada has the highest incident rate at 290 cases per 100,000 people.

The US is lower at 110-140 cases per 100,000 above the 37th parallel, and 57-78 cases per 100,000 below the 37th parallel.


I find I get more bacterial lung infections in Canada vs when I lived in the US, but could be the fact I am older here vs there so not as young and healthy...




I find I get dizzy often when standing up, vision goes for a second or 2 and I have to hold a wall or something to balance. Doctors can't find no medical problem and doing a search seems somewhat common, but apparently those who experience such symptoms when standing are higher risk of heart failure later in life, but I figure my heart is going to kill me, killed just about every male in the family thus far.

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My balance was off. I had to get it investigated as one seeks not to lose balance when perched on a speeding horse.

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Canada annoys me with how much things cost.

I did some math and our rent in 2018 is 305% higher vs 5 years ago.

Income is higher but only 24% higher.

No woner qol is so poor. So frustrating.

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Germaine Greer has been in the news a lot lately. Does anyone remember the Gerry Anderson puppet series Terrahawks?

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...re-homeowners/

Globe and Mail opinion piece. A couple of key points from it.

"Today, it takes a person in Vancouver, between the ages of 24-34, 27 years to save for a 20-per-cent down payment on a home. Forty years ago, it took five years. Kids aren’t earning as much, when adjusted for inflation, as the boomers."


"“We have an aging population, one that wants and needs more medical care, asking a younger generation to pay more for health care than they did,” Mr. Kershaw told me. “Meantime, house values are disproportionately helping an aging population, while that group is leaving larger bills to their kids’ generation. Is that the legacy they want to leave?”

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The Boomers weren't called the 'Me Generation' for nothing.

That said, there are a bunch of things pushing high house prices in Vancouver, not just selfish Boomers. You've got artificially low interest rates, insane levels of lending, limited supply of land in the areas where people want to live, some of the only half-decent year-round weather in Canada, and masses of foreign money, much of which isn't even taxed.

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Yep, yep and yep.

I read that sales volumes had fallen, so presumably prices should soften a bit too.