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In Europe the same meal would be costing you almost $20 so still a bargain.
Europe is a big place - please be more specific with your sweeping, generalized statements . In no way are costs similar across countries. (i.e. Greece/Portugal/Hungary is nowhere near expensive as Norway/Denmark/Switzerland and are indeed cheaper than Canada)
brentwood still do not have a T&T supermarket (or Foody World or h-mart)!!
so its still not comparable to marine & cambie in terms of convenience. investors, buyers, young first timers and Renters they all look for this.
ppl living at marine gateway can just go downstairs and buy fresh made sushi, drinks, or hot pot ingredients and finish shopping. go upstairs and have hot pot in under 20 minutes.
brentwood still do not have a T&T supermarket (or Foody World or h-mart)!!
so its still not comparable to marine & cambie in terms of convenience. investors, buyers, young first timers and Renters they all look for this.
ppl living at marine gateway can just go downstairs and buy fresh made sushi, drinks, or hot pot ingredients and finish shopping. go upstairs and have hot pot in under 20 minutes.
station square can do this. Brentwood can't!!!
I'm not going to lie. I've never purchased from T&T, and have never heard of the other two places you listed. I've also only ever gone for Hot pot in Korea. lol Maybe i'm the minority these days.
For starters europe isn't so fond of GMO's and non organic garbage you eat in north america. Which is why there are so many more fat asses this side of the pond.
North America has some of the lowest food standards compared to places like europe and even asia.
For starters europe isn't so fond of GMO's and non organic garbage you eat in north america. Which is why there are so many more fat asses this side of the pond.
North America has some of the lowest food standards compared to places like europe and even asia.
No they don't. A lot of the food in Europe is grown or produced in Europe.
Of course, there are times in the year where they need to import as does North America.
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Side note I don't know if you guys unintentionally stumbled upon to the use of the big mac as a means of comparing Purchasing power, and parity.
But the big mac index is actually used quite often when discussing economies and it's actually a really decent way of comparing different currencies and economic factors. It's really informal, but because mcdonalds operates in like 120 countries, and the big mac is served the same way in all of those countries, it becomes a really good means to compare the cost of labor, land, and ingredients.
Since I like this youtube channel, here's a good video:
Sorry for going off topic everyone, you may now continue grossly exaggerating the costs of goods and services in Europe to justify the outrageous current cost of living in Vancouver.
Steering the conversation back some old school RE discussion -- is anyone familiar with the area around Rocky Point Park in Port Moody? Say, from around Moody Street up to Ioco? We're considering an apartment / townhouse in that area, and I'm wondering what the pricing trends and prospects are like. Would it be smarter to go into the market soon? or wait a few months / year?
Obviously, the Evergreen Line is gonna start up soon, and I suspect that will be both a plus and a minus.
brought nothing a but a fucking salad for lunch while working through a report
browse RS, scroll mid page and the first thing i see is a fucking big mac
fuck my life.
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Brentwood was one of the first places to bring all this density in one spot to Burnaby. There isn't much other allure than the skytrain, shopping mall, and the hope that it'll be great.
Metrotown was almost at the same point, but they are abit more spread out, with TheMet towers on the East. The towers going up along Beresford (Central Blvd) on the South, and Station Square in the NorthWest.
If you guys start digging around, Concord (IIRC) wants to place 3-4 towers on TheBay & Sears outside parking lots on the North side of Metrotown. If that goes through, I'm not really going to a shopping mall period anymore.
Brentwoods traffic will be 100% fucked once that development is complete. As no expanded road infrastructure is planned, just more traffic lights.
Kingsway infront of Metrotown is already fucked, and will only get worse if that development by Concord happens.
Lougheed & North Rd are terrible already, and with that development, not much can be done for ways of expansion. Another mall to get fucked.
Yet I'd still rather live in New West/Burnaby than Vancouver.
They're planning more traffic lights along Lougheed/Willingdon? Are you fucking serious?! It's already atrocious how long the wait is between lights here on lougheed in this area already..Christ I need to leave Brentwood
Steering the conversation back some old school RE discussion -- is anyone familiar with the area around Rocky Point Park in Port Moody? Say, from around Moody Street up to Ioco? We're considering an apartment / townhouse in that area, and I'm wondering what the pricing trends and prospects are like. Would it be smarter to go into the market soon? or wait a few months / year?
Obviously, the Evergreen Line is gonna start up soon, and I suspect that will be both a plus and a minus.
Port Moody has already seen quite a bit of price increases over the last year. Prices for condos are now very close to what you would pay at Brentwood.
While there are a few newer low-rise buildings along St. John's, most of the dense residential is by Ioco in the Suterbrook and Klahanie developments. Suterbrook was built by Onni, while Khahanie was a Polygon development. Suterbrook has more of an urban, Yaletown feel while Klahanie is less dense. 2-bedroom condos are now in the 550k range, but they are typically 1000 square feet or more. There are rowhomes in Klahanie that are now in the 700K range.
Newport Village is an older development that has a number of low rises and high rises. The prices are similar what you would pay in Suterbrook or Klahanie. Some buildings were built by Bosa.
If you're looking at townhouses, there are several east of Ioco in the Coronation Park area. That neighbourhood is set for rezoning, so buying a unit there may not be too bad from an investment perspective.
The old heritage homes south of St. John's are going to be all re-zoned for multi-family over the next decade. Some of them have been moved for new rowhomes. These rowhomes arent cheap - they're in the 750K range.
Port Moody city council has taken a much more cautious approach to rezoning around the Skytrain, but my sense is that once the line gets going, rezonings will only accelerate. Murray St, which is right by Rocky Point is designated as an industrial zone, but the city has asked for a change in designation to multi purpose which would allow restaurants, retail, and possible residential in he future.
If you're asking yourself why you would want to live in Port Moody when Coquitlam is 5-10% cheaper, here are some reasons:
- closer to Vancouver
- it's more affluent
- higher gentrification in the form of breweries, bakeries, and restaurants
My view is that New West and Port Moody are the cities where yuppies will go to if they outgrow Vancouver or want to upsize. For this reason, I am quite bullish on these 2 cities.
Here's another thing to consider for anyone looking to buy along the Evergreen Line: TransLink will only be running 2-car trains along the entire Millennium Line until at least 2018. Considering the crowds during rush hour since the readjustment of the Skytrain lines, my prediction is that once the Evergreen Line is open, it will be full from day one until more trains arrive.
If you're a downtown commuter from the Tri-Cities, you might want to keep paying that West Coast Express premium.
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. In no way are costs similar across countries. (i.e. Greece/Portugal/Hungary is nowhere near expensive as Norway/Denmark/Switzerland and are indeed cheaper than Canada)
