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Originally Posted by underscore

I'm not sure what's funnier, thinking Kelowna is peaceful and quiet, or thinking that it "seems like a growing city" while our real estate market is going almost as bonkers as yours is. The assessment on my crappy ass house went up 34% this year. It's now worth more than double what I paid for it in 2013.



It's been pretty fucked for a while, but it's unlikely to get better. In the summer there's 1-3 people a week coming through my neighbourhood checking for unlocked cars. I live in a flat area that's easy to access, but if you live in a rich neighbourhood you just get bored rich kids breaking into your shit instead. The heat isn't actually an issue but the wildfire smoke every other year makes you want to stay inside anyways (and when it's not local it blows in from Russia). The tourists are unbearable, fuck tons of the worst Albertans and their jacked up brodozers clogging up our horrifically poorly planned infrastructure. Our city council is a bunch of NIMBY dickheads who want to pretend they're in charge of a much larger city so they do stupid shit like take out parking to cram in a bunch of bike lanes nobody uses or put in the worlds most pointless HOV lane. Then they stick all the addict recovery facilities close together in the one part of town where families can almost afford to live, which is terrible for the families and the addicts but great for keeping them out of the "nice" parts of town.

Oh and those new apartments they're putting in are going to be terrible. At least the ones being crammed in around my house where they're adding a few thousand units within about a 5 block half radius will be, I haven't seen what they're doing to fuck up the other parts of town. There's going to be fewer parking spaces than units to begin with, and there's no street parking, and they're sticking them in places where the roads are already clogged. Oh and they're taller than they're supposed to be. There are bylaws limiting height but apparently that doesn't matter because the developers claim it's not profitable to build unless the place is more than twice the height it's supposed to be. aka someone is paying off someone else.

/rant

To be fair to Kelowna, it's all relative to what you're used to, and I look at this place with shit coloured glasses because it has changed a lot over the years and none of those changes have been improvements. Which has made me extra salty since I'm stuck here for a looooong time.

I don't live in Kelowna and I feel the same way. I started visiting yearly in 2014 and only stopped since covid started. Traffic has gotten worse, shits gotten more expensive, there are more tourists than ever. Just overall dealing with a lot of the same issues Vancouver is facing with weird decisions and lagging infrastructure.