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Originally Posted by Hondaracer

How about stop complaining about how you can't afford a home and either rent or work a little harder in your life.
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This, it really frustrates me when I constantly hear people complaining about not being able to afford living in Vancouver or that there is no money to be made in Vancouver.

Seems way too many people in Vancouver have the mentality that they just want stuff handed to them and they don't have to work hard, well guess what, if you have an Arts degree or no solid education or vocational training, of course there is no money to be made, stop complaining about being able to afford something and that there is no money to be made, look in the mirror, you only have yourself to blame in most cases. Go out there and improve and better yourself and situation.

I can tell you this from 1st hand experience, if you have the right drive or education/training or know how, there is so much money to be made in Vancouver. I'm constantly having trouble filling high waged/salaried positions in film production due to lack of qualified locals and those wanting to work the hours. One of my best friends has been having trouble the last year filling positions for his company in a large post production VFX house that opened in Vancouver last year. I have other associates and friends who are futures and equities brokers clearing solid 5 figures monthly because they're constantly out there working hard and a buddy who just started his own Investor Relations/Marketing firm a year and half ago who is now making money hand over fist.

Yes, its not easy for the average person, but nothing is stopping that average person from looking themselves in the mirror and deciding to work harder and to get the right training/educational background. In the right fields, there is a lot of money to be made in Vancouver.

Originally Posted by 4444

I had this exact conversation with a very high earning professional of late - she prefers Alberta weather on the whole because she says she can barely make it through the perma-grey in the winter

On that note http://www.news1130.com/2013/01/09/a...n/?cid=dlvr.it

Alberta has most comfortable climate, not BC; Enviro Cdn
The experts say we should cross The Rockies for nice weather


VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – We are used to the superlatives here in Vancouver, with the West Coast topping so many global “best of” lists. But there is one list we don’t top, not even among the provinces, and it has to do with climate.

Environment Canada says Albertans are the luckiest people in Canada when it comes to the weather. Sure it’s cold and snowy (and it’s Alberta) but the sheer amount of sunshine beats BC by a mile. We are third on the list, trailing Saskatchewan.

BC produces a lot of rain but maybe government climatologists have been smoking our second most prolific product because, as everyone that lives on the West Coast knows, you don’t have to shovel rain in the winter.

Ian “Cowboy” Campbell at 660News in Calgary, a sister station of News1130, shovels something else when we asked him about his province’s strange ranking.

“I don’t know what you mean about strange,” he laughs. “We have a lot of a sunshine, it’s certainly our claim to fame and it’s something Vancouver can’t really brag about. I’m surprised you guys don’t need boats to get from place to place like you see in Venice.”

Campbell says Calgary does have a spectacular weather phenomenon to counterbalance the extreme cold.

“You forget the seven best letters in the English dictionary; C-H-I-N-O-O-K,” he chuckles. “It warms us up and we still get to play in the mountains. You guys rain so much I’m surprised you even ranked number three.”

His advice for surviving an Alberta winter? “Wear lots of long-johns and maybe enjoy a few adult soda pops here and there. That’s the best part of being a Canadian no matter where you are, I would say.”

Environment Canada looked at factors like sunshine, precipitation, humidity and temperature and ranked Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC the top three provinces. Quebec was ranked the least comfortable climate in Canada behind Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador.