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Originally Posted by Gridlock
I'll also tell you that rent is not that far behind.
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Stats say otherwise. Rent is always going to be higher out here, like housing, yet rents haven't suffered the same run up like house prices have. Plus if you've been renting a long time you're locked in at inflationary increases in rent.
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I have been watching closely, and I can tell you from my research that BC has not been fairing well in the statistics department. Cost of living is high, earnings are low. We are hitting the top of the wrong lists and the bottom of more wrong lists. We have gone from a have to a have not. Awesome.
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BC has never faired well in the stats department. Housing has always been relatively high, and incomes relatively low.
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Originally Posted by Gridlock
No matter where you look at the micro level, its meaningless as on the macro level, people are hurting, and they shouldn't be.
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You are correct, they shouldn't be. I shouldn't be seeing people lined up to buy over priced coffee or condos. Yet they do, so they hurt themselves.
Once you stop hunting for excuses you'll understand.
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We DO have a beautiful province and we DO have a lot going for us, but we DON'T get to enjoy it as we did.
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Climbing the Chief is free. Rollerblading Stanley Park is free. Walking Granville Island is free. Cycling False Creek is free. Snow shoeing Mount Seymour is free. Kayaking in Deep Cove is free. Shall I go on?
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Originally Posted by Gridlock
Maybe its time for some new thinking. Maybe its time for a little trickle up economics. Maybe its just as fair as trickle down economics and not a cash grab for the lazy as people seem so content to say ever since occupy the globe started.
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I asked this before of others: do you shop at Whole Foods or Walmart? If you believe in trickle up economics, then you should believe in paying your fellow citizens a fair wage.
I bet you do not shop at Whole Foods.
I do not shop at Whole Foods, yet I'm not arguing your point.