Maaaaaaan, I watch these YouTube videos with dudes that have a house, and a garage 3x the size of the house, and a bunch of cars in the garage

At first I'm like, fuck I want to be that wealthy

Then I realize half of these guys live in mid/small towns in USA, and can probably buy all of that for under 500k

Im jealous of guys that have a garage and a bunch of cars to work on and mess around with, then again, I don't want to live in the booooonies

you have to understand that even in the "boonies" in the states, you are often within a short drive to a large city. You have a country which is smaller than the size of canada, and has a population 10 times ours. There isn't a whole lot of "boonies" left in the USA.

Age is a factor too, I wouldn’t have wanted to live in the booooonies 15 years ago either when I was about your age…. But now I don’t think I’d mind so much if it was USA boonies like meme said haha you can easily do that in a suburb of a huge city there.

Thing is, those 4000 sq ft houses with pools, 3 car garages etc.

There isn’t a place in Canada you could build those homes for the purchase price.

All these renovation shows in California etc. it’s basically Mexican slave labour doing the work

there's ton of these boonies in the states.
Just drive down oregon coast, all those little towns are boonies. Same if you go east past Seattle, there's ton of these little one horse towns all the way to Spokane. they might have a bigger population, but like japan, all the population is concentrated in the big cities and rural areas are becoming depopulated due to the lack of opportunities. 500-600k usd you can buy in any one of these little towns and own a mansion.

"GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALS"
"WAIT FINISH MY HOUSE FIRST AND I WANT SOME HUEVOS RANCHEROS"
I've seen some of the coolest MCM houses in the midwest for like 200k, designed by iconic architects and such. There's tempting elements of it, but what are you gonna do. Sit at home all day in Nebraska?

I was just in Wisconsin for a week. Nice enough place, I was right between two major cities (15 min to one, 30 to the other) and a third smaller one but where I was all you see is a clump of houses and fields so it feels like the boonies. The climate is pretty similar to here but maybe a smidge colder for part of the winter. Everyone I met was chill and friendly, but I'm white and so was pretty much everyone else so ymmv there.

A quick look in that area and $472k USD ($638k CAD) gets you a 4 bed, 2.5 bath 2,900 sqft house built in 1990 with a 3 car garage on a 0.65 acre lot that you could easily slap a shop and pool on.

But there's fuck all to do there. Talking to some people basically you can hunt and fish a bit and that's it. It's flat as a pancake and the roads are all dead straight.

^ That's why Hellcats and Teslas are so popular.

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Heh used to work for a US company based out of a Milwaukee suburb. Senior Execs would have virtual town halls where they'd introduce themselves. They'd always attend calls from their massive "studies" from houses on acerages. when it came to show and tell it was always pictures of them on hunting trips posing with rifles and ATVs.

Us lowly worker peasants in our tiny shoebox condos cannot relate.

a friend of mine just moved to atlanta. her apartment is bigger than my stinking house. its 1800sqft, while my old piece of shit bungalow is only 1300sqft.

her's is only a 1 bedroom too. god bless 'merica and their excess.

The company I currently work for is based in a Milwaukee suburb. There's bound to be a few but it'd be funny if it was the same one.

Does your company currently have an NBA stadium's naming rights?


Most 'muricans don't give a crap about scarcity or preserving the natural environment. Oh wanna live somewhere warm? How about we terraform a swamp the size of a state so you can have a waterfront house? This is the country that pioneered living in a desert they could teach the Saudi's a thing or two. Wanna live in a suburb but it's too crowded for your tastes? Well we've got plenty of Exurbs you can live in - this kinda shit just does not fly in Canada.

We won't have an election for a few years now, polls mean nothing right now.

I'm certain PeePee will have enough years here to put his proverbial foot in his mouth and fuck up any chances of winning a general election.

Has JT ever indicated if he'll run for another term?

Peepee is avoiding putting his foot in his mouth the only way he can avoid it. Refusing to talk to anyone about anything since he really has no ideas, no platform, no plan other than “trudeaus fault” for everything the entire planet is facing.

I didn't realize PP races a Honda?

:troll:

But unfortunately such has always been politics, though it has gotten worse in the last decade.

You denounce the other party for doing something, but when it's your turn in office you do exactly the same thing. Rinse and repeat.

Not that I'm aware of, it's currently only a 100ish person company.

Ah okay definitely not the same company then

Yah, all I want is a 4 car garage to tinker around in. Anything like that around here is the old ass legacy homes in Shaunessy or West Van.

I've been looking to get out of here for the better part of 10 years now and if it werent' for my elderly parents, I probably would've moved far away already. It's the damn weather... 2 months of sun and 10 months of overcast/rain with maybe a week of snow. It's just depressing here most of the year.

Chances are, when my parents pass, I'm probably heading to Hawaii. I already spend 2-3 months in the winter there. Trying out the various islands. I like Oahu but too many tourists so likely the big island of Hawaii. This may sound familiar to Vancourites but you can go skiing in the morning and the beach in the afternoon... lol... but like an actual beach where the water is warm and the sand is fine, not the crushed rocks that we call sand here.

The one downside... cars will rust there :(

Hawaii car culture kind of sucks imo, you are stuck on a little island, there's not a lot of places to drive, and shipping is worse than Canada. And yes the aforementioned rust.

First off it isn't two months of sun, weather is pretty favorable in van from like mid-may all the way to end of september on average. Just look at this year, it was awesome into october, and we had what almost 4 months without hardly any rain?

And the rest of the year save for a couple cold snaps a snow storms (which can be fun if you are just prepared unlike the average idiot), the weather is pretty mild. Weather in vancouver is mild compared to anywhere else in the country. I work up in the yukon, it snows here actually 8 months out of the year, it is currently -15, and by saturday it will be a cold snap and -45. This is a dog shit place to live if you ask me.

Yeah of course if you are going to compare vancouver to hawaii or the bahamas, its going to not seem favorable. If all you want is sun go south, something tells me your depressing outlook will just follow you when you can't go outside because it is 45 degrees and your skin will melt.

I don't think Hawaii ever gets to 45 degrees since they're oceanic islands not an inland desert. But to each their own. I think Hawaii is a fantastic vacation destination but living there is probably another thing all together. Coupled with the fact it's crazy expensive now and the locals there are getting less and less receptive to outsiders coming to their islands and wrecking their idyllic home.

There's a reason most Canadians snowbird/retire to Arizona or Florida. Cheap cheap cheap sun. And no one cares if you build more subdivisions in the desert or swamp.

I've visited a guy with a house on Steveston Hwy, and he has an old stable (!!!) in his yard. There were 6 or 8 stalls in total, with a wide corridor in the middle, and there is more than enough room to pull cars into each stall. In fact, that's exactly what he did, although I think he only had 1 car in there at the time. And that's in addition to his garage too. It didn't seem like he was doing any farming at all, so it probably wasn't zoned as farmland somehow.

And then of course, there are the farm houses, like stuff along No. 6, south of Westminster Hwy.

I got triggered by PeePee today.

Was getting ready to hit the gym and had the news in the background, PeePee was giving a speech in the house, his usual crap, decrying Trudeau and inflation. He said one line that stuck out to me though.

He was saying "Mothers are having to mix their babies milk with water because they can't afford to pay for milk in this country due to Trudeau's inflation" (something along those lines).

What is this the 1930's? :lol

Where the fuck does this guy get these silly canned lines? More so, who even falls for that crap?

It just struck me as so unscrupulous to even try to utter such a fake "gotcha" like that. Who the hell is having to resort to mixing their milk with water to afford feeding their children in this country?

Classically, he offers no solution to his bullshit story either, are the Cons planning to give away free milk to the public if he's elected? :lol

I hate fucking politics.

That doesn't even make sense. Babies either get breastmilk from their mom or formula, you don't give them milk. You can get premixed formula that's ready to go but iirc it costs more than the powder so anyone hurting for money is going to be buying powder. Which you then mix with water because that's how it works.

PP detached from reality and making up nonsense as usual.