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Old 12-20-2023, 05:26 PM   #29251
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Dude it's like an hour to go to yvr from like east van. Let alone Coquitlam, Surrey, chiliwack. City traffic sucks ass especially with all the Ubers, delivery guys and buddy guys crashing into bridges
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Old 12-20-2023, 05:26 PM   #29252
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my only excuse is the lack of serious shopping for my wife and good Asian restaurants. I cant eat at the lingnan everyday

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Old 12-20-2023, 05:39 PM   #29253
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If I was 20, I’d seriously be looking at Alberta. The mainland, starting from scratch as a young person? Come on. This place isn’t that great. Lol.
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Old 12-20-2023, 05:47 PM   #29254
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With global warming, Calgary/AB will have mild winters or 'Vancouver like' in 5-10 yrs.
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watch all the RS ballers move to Calgary and thus driving up prices to vancouver levels

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I wouldn’t want to be in Calgary as a young person socially, it seems a better fit for aging people who don’t go out as much like to watch stuff in a home theatre or work on cars and hobbies and go out once in awhile… I know my friend seems to think raising his kid there was a million times better and he has a lot more friends in his neighbourhoods than he ever had here.
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Houses are already $100k more than they were this same time last year
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Old 12-20-2023, 06:04 PM   #29258
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time to go further east. Winterpeg it is, or is it mosquitopeg?

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Old 12-20-2023, 06:39 PM   #29259
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If not Penticton, then Portugal

Bit of a leap but ok

Could consider Airdrie but even Red Deer is about the same as Vancouver to Chilliwack (Distance wise) but that's assuming no traffic on Hwy 1 (good luck with that).

Anyway, I'm ok with living somewhere with savings potential so I can travel more. Vancouver could be subjectively seen as exciting compared to Calgary but I get pretty bored here too. Hardly a world class city like it boasts itself to be. Anyway, there's enough TFWs coming in to replace more than who's leaving anyway so it looks like everyone wins...except the infrastructure
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I heard if you live south of the highway, Chilliwack is a pretty good place.

The north seemed like a shithole with a bunch of homeless people when I was in the area for a wedding.
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Old 12-20-2023, 08:33 PM   #29261
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Walk 5 minutes and swim in the ocean?

I’m even a big outdoors person, fishing and hunting my whole life. But I’ve also become a soft city boy who needs the comfort of restaurants and concert venues within a stones throw.

Also being an hour + away from an international airport would be a no go for me at this point
Wouldn't make even Maple Ridge untenable for you then? A lot of beautiful European cities do not have an international airport either. We visited family in Aachen and they do not have an airport.
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What do you do in Van, that you can't do in Alberta? I actually get exited to fly to AB so I can get some golfing done. Cheaper green fees for better greens!
Actually do anything outside for 25% more of the year? I'm curious how many of you guys that are talking about moving to Alberta have been there for a couple weeks in the winter.

Although if enough of you move there maybe you can help sort out their looney tunes politics. At least if you're anything but white the far right nutjobs might not assume you agree with them and start ranting about the dumb shit they believe all the time. That gets old fast.
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Wouldn't make even Maple Ridge untenable for you then? A lot of beautiful European cities do not have an international airport either. We visited family in Aachen and they do not have an airport.
In reality, due to friends and family all being in the lower mainland if it was maple ridge or say Edmonton or Kelowna, I’d probably be forced to stay in maple ridge.

However, if it was chilliwack or X, I’d take penticton over chilliwack every time
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https://www.rew.ca/properties/535193...place-comox-bc

If I got tired of Vancouver's COL I'd split the diff in cost of living and head to the island instead of Alberta. I'd be mortgage free with a place like this and just rolling in cash.
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Yah that's not realistic for most of us, I can get a house in Delta for that price not frickin COMOX haha
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Have any of you had a buyers inspector try to require GFCIs in all the kitchen outlets? I don't know all of the electrical code but that doesn't sound right.
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YES! and fuck those god damn outlets.

the new place has those and they are pieces of shits. They even required them in all exterior outlets and bathrooms.

Everytime putting in a plug is like fighting against some plastic bullshit.

i think tis building code now. but if you have an older home, you can argue that it wasnt part of the building code when it was built so shove it up your ass.
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Yea it’s code.. my electrician tossed them all in on my kitchen counter outlets.

I think code might actually be that bedrooms need them as well now. As hobz said they get super fucking annoying when you have a cord with a ground on them because the shit has to go in perfect to engage the stupid protection part
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all this safety garbage is bullshit. Give some forks to toddlers and see how many survive. Its Darwinism at its finest.

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Is it the GFCI's or the tamper resistant requirement? I swapped all mine to TR ages ago and they were super sticky at first but they got better after some use.

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I thought kitchen outlets all had to have the split feeds (I'm derping on the word for it), how do they work with that?
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talking about GFCI, stupid amazon motion light is doing something stupid and keeps flipping the GFCI
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Have any of you had a buyers inspector try to require GFCIs in all the kitchen outlets? I don't know all of the electrical code but that doesn't sound right.
No, It's only code to have GFCI's protected receptacles installed within 1.5m of a kitchen sink. I say "GFCI protected receptacles" because one GFCI outlet can actually protect a downstream string of regular receptacles fed from that GFCI.

They could be getting confused with the USA National electrical code (NEC) just issued an amendment starting in 2023 that all kitchen plugs must be GFCI protected regardless of proximity to sink. Even then if this did apply to Canada though, unless you're doing new electrical work in the kitchen to those circuits, there's no mandatory requirement to update to the newest code. I'd tell them to pound sand.

The split receptacle thing went away when kitchen receptacles started to be wired with 20A circuits. You can do either-or now.

Bedrooms/living areas do not need GFCI, they need AFCI. it works differently, and even that is a relatively new code requirement (2002 i think). If your house is older, you're not under obligation to install them unless you do new work that affects those circuits.
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Is Calgary the better option than moving to Chilliwack?

I've never really been to Chilliwack, but people seem to like it out there, they say the lake is right there and it's quite beautiful and you get good bang for your buck out there. The major benefit is that it's less than two hours away from Van, so if you need to be in the city, it's relatively easy.

Apparently Calgary isn't that cheap anymore. it would be roughly the same price of Chilliwack?
I feel like once you have to resort to moving to Chilliwack, what's really the point in staying in this province any longer? I mean, unless you absolutely love The Wack, and have some foundations there.

If all your friends and family live in the Vancouver area, they'll never come visit you, so now you're isolated, and you're far enough from the city where it's a pain in the ass to drive in, especially with traffic.

At that point you might as well move to the island, or a new province entirely. I'd much rather explore another province as a living situation entirely than resort to living in somewhere like Chilliwack, or Abbotsford.
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