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Originally Posted by Manic!
What are you going to do if you get sick? I'm guessing you are still a Canadian citizen. Are you collecting cerb?
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Canadian citizen for life! Even when I get American citizenship, I won't be giving up Canadian citizenship.
And no, I'm not collecting CERB. That would be wrong on quite a few different levels. People are going to need to eat going forward and I'm not going to put my own ladle in the soup.
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Originally Posted by mikemhg
Well said, and I agree. The NIMBY stuff is Vancouver is what I personally can't stand.
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There is a lot of that up in the north. Connecticut comes to mind. They won't tackle serious social issues and instead push people needing mental health treatment or the homeless into different cities.
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Originally Posted by mikemhg
Our Federal government, and primarily the BC Liberals have sold out our country and province to the real estate industry, and foreign ownership, much to the detriment of Canadians. It's a foul situation in Vancouver, one not based on any true logic. The rampant speculation and money laundering along with systemic corruption by our elected officials is whats put us here. It's very odd to see local Vancouverites so subdued, neutered in our ability to address the problem (ultimately it's far too late at this point).
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Even though it began long before Christy Clark, she was openly complicit in this shit IMO. I feel it began with Mike Harcourt in the 90s.
People go crazy when I tell them about property rates back home. I show them that old website
https://www.crackshackormansion.com/ and then pull up a few property listings to show them that prices have only gone up.
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Originally Posted by mikemhg
What do you do for work down there, if you don't mind me asking?
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I work in biomed. Fixing implantable devices like pacemakers and the such. In school now to make a career change though, something in finance. It'll probably be a leap to Big Oil
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Originally Posted by birddog3k
The government can and will jail you for failing to pay taxes.
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And child support, and taking your kids to a school out of your district, and voting outside of your district, and whatever the hell they want.