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Originally Posted by 4444
heed my warning, the Canadian economy is slowing down, there are loads of job losses across Canada
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The export of natural resources will be our saviour as long as people in the world continue to buy things. It's short-sighted in the long-term, but gotta strike while the iron is hot.
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Vancouver's economy is stagnant - if you have an opportunity to live in another country, do it while you're young and before you have kids. Vancouver is a great place to raise kids, no doubt about it (if you can afford to live here), but for career growth, it mings.
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It's been known for decades that Vancouver is a place where careers go to die. People have always sacrificed salary for quality of life.
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and for me, i've given this city a lot of my time, i've tried to make it work here, but opportunities in cities very similar to Vancouver (climate wise, and diverse in its people) are so much better that i can't help but feel that people are cutting off their nose in spite of their faces by staying here.
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Name some. San Franciso? Singapore? Melbourne? Buenos Aires? Santiago?
Mumbai?
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i'm looking forward to Canada being a leader again, i think our politicians have sold us short, and that we are about to go through a decade of stagnation that will be difficult to weather, all because our governments kicked the 2008 financial crisis can down the road.
i look forward to Canada being a strong economy again, but it will likely be at least a decade away, i just hope in that time we can get some decent politicians in place both provincially and federally, though i don't hold my breath for that here or anywhere in teh world.
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IMHO, we get the politicians we deserve. In general, people have become more insular over the last 20 years. I doubt that this trend is exclusive to Vancouver, Canada, or the developed world for that matter.
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