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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Willoughby isn't exactly the best example of a multi family situation lol but I get it
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lol, it used to be such a nice place to live.
Our first house was at 209 and 73 ave, and it was awesome. I would get home from my 50 minute commute to Maple Ridge, and walk to my backyard forest.
*quickly checks photobucket for an old pic
Does anyone remember the winter of 07?
The house still stands, but.... and I hate to say it. But, there were a number of properties on the road bought by foreign investors. New houses were built, and they are vacant. It's a fuking shame.
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
Oh don't get me wrong, I frequently lament how much more "crowded" this city feels and the general lack of community. That being said, I appreciate the cultural offerings this place has to offer far exceeds what we had 10, even 5 years ago. Although I don't have a memory stretching as far back as yours  I still miss the days of Vancouver in the late 90s and early 2000s as a nice time to grow up and be optimistic before shit hit the fan.
I also just don't feel it's fair to blame "The AyeZians!!#$!!" for all the high density. Canadians have always had more of an affinity towards high-density living than Americans do. Look at the West-End. Most of the high-rise stock are from the 50s and 60s- unheard of for North American cities our size back then. I doubt Asians were buying up those places when they were first built. |
Oh the 90's were such a glorious time to grow up.
I honestly believe that we were the last generation with the opportunity to live a lifestyle made famous by the boomers coming back from the war.
Vancouver used to be ugly towards immigrants back in the day. I still remember by "irish" maternal grandfather, and my Italian paternal grandfather getting into fights. They hated each other, one because he was an immigrant, the other because he was an alcoholic Canadian citizen who didn't like immigrants.
And therein lies the history. Back in the early 1900's folks hated the Irish. Fast forward a generation and folks hated Indian immigrants. Then there were the Germans and Italians taking everyone's jobs during and after WW2. Fast forward again and you have the Persian exodus. The japanese in the late 80's and early 90's to the folks from Hong Kong in the late 90's. Now it's the Chinese.
I think we as a society can't stop growth, so we need to find a scapegoat to help us deal with it.
Still, a lot of the current market issues, which are completely unprecedented come from China.
100,000 millionaires wield a lot of power in a country with 33 million people.
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“What you have is a huge pool of very wealthy people who want to hedge against uncertainty back home,” says Thomas Davidoff, a real estate economist at the University of British Columbia (UBC). “Combine anxious money – a lot of it – with a beautiful gateway city that has limited space to build, low property taxes, lax regulation on capital flows, and wealth-friendly immigration programmes, and you get a market like this one,” – a market where an ordinary house with a waterfront view can sell for $15m while people earning local wages struggle to buy or rent a home.
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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...itish-columbia
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp
I think the main issue is that moving out of beyond Vancouver/Burnaby/New West it sucks to travel around. There aren't enough highways to move traffic, in some areas there are literally like one highway in and out so if it snow or any road closure you are fuck. Add to the fact that our public transit system sucks.
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oh man, you hit so many nails on the head.
If you want to get into some property without selling your future, you could look at Chilliwack. But do you want to deal with this garbage on the daily?
Thanks to thumper for posting this in the snow thread.
Some places are in dire need of gentrification.