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You earn more in America, your cost of living is lower and you still have far more freedom and accountability of abusers than Canada has, the Creepy Ones involved in the lives of citizens from the cradle to the grave.
Now sucker Canadians with our far lower disposable income pay twice as much for the same box to live in.
Remember what I told you, do NOT become like Canada. We will be going the way of the Dodo Bird, I imagine U.S intelligence agencies have already arrived at this same conclusion and are operating accordingly.
fortune.com
Johnny Chen, 33, received a promotion and sizable salary bump in March, but it hasn't helped his six-month search for a single-family home in Vancouver, Canada. Chen, a director of equity sales and trading at an investment bank who falls into Canada's top income bracket, scrolls through online home listings every day. But the city's low volume of homes for sale means there's not much to see. A half-year into his hunt, he's yet to make an offer on a place. "I'm a bit trigger shy... it's hard to wrap my head around prices right now. Vancouver's real estate market is a bit crazy," Chen says.
Chen has hit open house after open house, but "there's just so much competition," particularly in his ideal price range of $2 million Canadian dollars or $1.6 million USD, Chen says. Even single-family houses on the market for $3 million CAD ($2.4 million) need "substantial renovation work," he says. "It's hard to know how much the home will actually cost with inflation in labor and building materials, plus slow turnaround times for building permits," he says. So for now, he lives in a townhome outside of the city center that he purchased pre-sale in 2017.
Now sucker Canadians with our far lower disposable income pay twice as much for the same box to live in.
Remember what I told you, do NOT become like Canada. We will be going the way of the Dodo Bird, I imagine U.S intelligence agencies have already arrived at this same conclusion and are operating accordingly.
The standard home in Canada now costs twice as much as in the U.S
The standard home in Canada now costs twice as much as in the U.S.
A plan to rein in the 'stunning' boom is a test for both housing markets.
Johnny Chen, 33, received a promotion and sizable salary bump in March, but it hasn't helped his six-month search for a single-family home in Vancouver, Canada. Chen, a director of equity sales and trading at an investment bank who falls into Canada's top income bracket, scrolls through online home listings every day. But the city's low volume of homes for sale means there's not much to see. A half-year into his hunt, he's yet to make an offer on a place. "I'm a bit trigger shy... it's hard to wrap my head around prices right now. Vancouver's real estate market is a bit crazy," Chen says.
Chen has hit open house after open house, but "there's just so much competition," particularly in his ideal price range of $2 million Canadian dollars or $1.6 million USD, Chen says. Even single-family houses on the market for $3 million CAD ($2.4 million) need "substantial renovation work," he says. "It's hard to know how much the home will actually cost with inflation in labor and building materials, plus slow turnaround times for building permits," he says. So for now, he lives in a townhome outside of the city center that he purchased pre-sale in 2017.
