nueonetwo
joined 2 years ago
Where I live on Vancouver Island (not Vic) rent has increased about 2 to 3 times in ten years. Housing prices, from what I've seen on bc assessment, is on par. Something assessed at 250k in 2013 is now assessed at 600 to 700k.
Looking at rentals this morning, 2br are anywhere from 1500 to as high as 3100.
Develop the rail corridor and build the hell out of the adjacent land. We don't need more roads and bypasses on the island we need viable alternate forms of transportation.
BC it's now considered the "gold standard" for regulating short term rentals.
My partner gets 20 mg gummie from the black market that work amazing for her for sleep. 100 gummie for $100. Can't get gummie for that price, or with that dosage from the gov't, so she'll never buy from them.
I understand the issues with edibles and kids, but the gov't isn't going to win this so they may as well figure out how to move forward if they want to make an actual dent in the black market.
Please don't give Hollywood anymore ideas
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She does have an iud so I could before, but her Dr put her on medication for her rheumatoid arthritis last year that causes birth defects so at the moment we gotta double up. Even if that wasn't the case, still couldn't afford to have a kid right now.
Yup that too.
My partner got food poisoning a few years ago and kicked her food intolerances up a level where even trace amounts now wreck her so we've had to go to the dairy free route which is expensive and very limiting. Her doctor recently told her to try cutting gluten so now I have to relearn how to shop and cook to accommodate that which adds more to the bill. She's essentially a gluten free vegan who eats meat.
Without writing out my whole life story: student loans, unexpected vehicle issues (public transit isn't an option where I live), out of pocket medical costs not covered by benefits or gov't, long commutes with expensive gas and no feasible alternatives and few job opportunities closer to home in my field. Can't afford to move due to high rents so I'm stuck driving.
There's more but I'm hungry and wanna eat dinner and don't feel like going into it. We save everything that isn't essential and barely go out for fun, anything extra goes towards a down payment but the way things are going right not it doesn't look like we'll be able to buy for years unless we can put away like 2k a month.
Here they are (with full details to follow at the end of this article): Rob Flack, Ontario’s associate minister of housing; France-Élaine Duranceau, Quebec’s housing minister; Nathan Neudorf, Alberta’s minister of affordability and utilities; Gene Makowsky, Saskatchewan’s minister of social services; John Lohr, Nova Scotia’s minister of municipal affairs and housing; Rob Lantz, Prince Edward Island’s minister of housing, land and communities.
The housing ministers for British Columbia and New Brunswick do not have any reported investments in real estate.
Dumb fuck nimbys and even dumber fucking council. What absolute losers.