Tavarin

Everyone I know who has been bit by a dog it was either a pitbull, pit mix, or chihuahua. And I'm not exactly worried about the severity of a chihuahua bite.

So you don't have a house to live in? Shame.

They mentioned that in paragraph 2.

You think everyone else who is stuck renting and desperately wants a house isn't working their asses off?

And no, you're not fucked, you still have a place to live with your family, and you clearly can afford it regardless of if the sale price eventually drops. And it doesn't matter if it drops because once you sell it whatever place you move to will also have dropped in price.

Stop trying to fuck others with this fuck you I got mine attitude. I will be ecstatic if my condo halves in value, because it means my friends may actually be able to afford a place to live themselves, and it doesn't hurt me.

You'll still have a home, and presumably still be able to afford the payments. Fuck the loss, and let other people get a chance to actually have a place to live.

I know my single story isn’t coming down like a tower,

No, but good chance it collapses anyway. I know 100% my building isn't going to fall due to an earthquake ever.

And those towers in parts of Japan and LA have faced severe earthquakes without collapse.

but like the Twin Towers proved

Several entire floors were destroyed and set ablaze simultaneously, blocking off the stairwells and ensuring an incredibly large part of the building was on fire at the start. Not in any way comparable to a standard fire starting in a condo tower.

like the residential tower in the UK that went up like a candle

Sure, and in any sane country that's entirely illegal to do. There are zero buildings with flammable cladding in my city. And having seen apartments on fire in other buildings, and that fire failing to ever spread to another unit, I can indeed confirm that most buildings do not have fire spread between units.

Internationally, I don’t stay above the fourth floor

Utterly ridiculous of you, that is a completely irrational phobia. If tall buildings were as dangerous as you think they are we'd have millions of people dying in them annually, but we don't. Even considering some of the shoddier builds in China, apartment fatalities are rarer than people dying in their own houses.

was that it could spread before symptoms presented strongly, and that there was strong asymptomatic transmission

And yet in a positive pressure building it did not spread, even with confirmed cases in some units it never spread to any neighboring units. We would have been very aware if someone had been symptomatically spreading it in the building as we would have had cases spike, but that did not happen. So no, even a very transmissible airborne virus will not spread between units in a well designed tower.

Nope, not a nightmare at all.

The hallways are pressurized so one infected person can spread the latest virus to every apartment on the floor,

The opposite actually, since the one infected persons virus stays contained in their unit. We had virtually no spread of Covid in the building during lockdowns, with infected people's illness staying contained to their unit.

and if there’s a fire, you get to see just how short the ladders are at the local fire department.

The fire department doesn't need ladders to get up the building, the all concrete construction prevents fires from easily spreading unit to unit. We've never had a fire spread from one unit to another in the 13 years I've lived here.

in any kind of earthquake the entire building was going to be a death trap

Also false, tall towers can easily be built to be Earthquake proof, just look at Japan, or LA.

Seems you don't really know anything about the actual construction of tall towers or what it's like to live in them, and are just going by false convictions.

We're not more depressed now, we're just more open about it and seeking help. Sure out grandparents had a rough go of it, but so did their parents, and their paretns parents, and on and on throughout history.

Before World War 2, you had the Great Depression. Before that World War 1 and the Spanish Flu. Before that you had colonialism, slavery, and horrific working conditions. Before that you had the black death. Before that you had less than a 50% chance of reaching adulthood.

People were definitely more depressed in the past, they were just shamed into having a stiff upper lip and not talking about it.

Sure, so then why are mental health issues appearing to get worse, despite the fact that people were so depressed they beat their kids all the time in the past?

Simple, we're just better at diagnosing and treating it now, and people are more comfortable admitting to it now.

We're not worse mental health wise, we're a hell of a lot better than in the past. People are just more willing to talk about it now, and not try to have a stiff upper lip like with past generations.

People were far more abusive to their kids in the past, so that doesn't really explain why depression is getting worse now.

I live in a 51 story condo tower and it's great. Thick concrete walls, can't hear a thing. High above the street, so not much street noise gets up to my unit. The hallways are pressured higher than the units, so smells don't get out.

It's great; I never want to live in a house, and deal with all the shit that comes with that.

Canadian condos are like that, generally individually owned and there's a condo board made up of residents that deals with management of the building. I don't know of many buildings that are mostly owned by corporations in Toronto.