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Some golden quotes here: How young Vancouver buyers are crashing the real estate party - The Globe and Mail

“There’s definitely sacrifices. I budgeted. I didn’t eat out. Some could say I missed some life experiences. But if you have that [home ownership] as your goal, anything is possible.”

The anti-multicartual?

“This was the first step of being an adult,” said Mr. Richards, 30, who said he and his 29-year-old wife chose Richmond because that’s where they grew up and where their parents still live.

They saved enough for most of the 20-per-cent down payment needed for their $300,000 townhouse – “a real fixer-upper, 43 years old, near Garden City and Williams” – and got over the hump with the help of Ms. O’Donnell’s father. (That saved them extra costs that get tacked onto a mortgage with a less-than-20-per-cent down payment.)

Apparently being an adult means borrowing money from parents to own a shithole, er, 'fixer-upper'.

And lastly:

Some young homeowners have become slightly evangelical about the need for others to realize it’s possible if they stop being so clueless about money.
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“They don’t know anyone who owns, they don’t understand money, they just don’t think it’s possible. I keep telling them: “It’s a conspiracy to keep you as renters. Then you can pay someone else’s mortgage.’”