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polly7

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24. I don't understand, I have a huge family and many friends who live all across Canada.

Reply to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #22)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 10:23 PM

Sep 2015

Of course housing did go up, but not one that I know of has had to relocate or lost their home or not been able to rent or buy where they work because of it. They all have retained their 'meaningful' career prospects. You make a lot of broad-brush statements that I don't see much evidence of. Housing will never go back to what it was, but it's been declining steadily with the price of oil so low. Lots of homes near me being bought and sold for much less than they were two years ago. Rent has also come down. I don't think you can speak for many of us regarding how terrible we have it.

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What makes Canada's middle-class better off than the US middle-class? [View all] Stevepol Sep 2015 OP

yep randys1 Sep 2015 #1

Yep. I saw that back in 1998 when I hosted a campground in Cleita Sep 2015 #2

If you account for the cost of living indoors, they aren't. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #3

"Career opportunities are also severely limited outside the largest most expensive cities." Cleita Sep 2015 #4

The US has dozens of prosperous yet affordable second-tier cities. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #7

They are only prosperous for a certain class of professionals Cleita Sep 2015 #10

However did I forget the exclusive trustafarian enclaves of Fort Worth and Phoenix? Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #16

You can stand by anything you say. Cleita Sep 2015 #17

What's with all the crap, polly7 Sep 2015 #32

You are clearly reading something else entirely into this Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #34

As is the case here. nt. polly7 Sep 2015 #35

Except when it isn't. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #39

I have family members in finance. polly7 Sep 2015 #43

Really? Where did you read that? mhatrw Sep 2015 #6

I have worked in Canada for most of the last decade Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #9

It must not be so bad if you became a citizen. n/t Cleita Sep 2015 #11

lol Tsiyu Sep 2015 #13

There are a lot of things I like about Canada, Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #19

Me too. I do like Canada. I visit as often as I can. Cleita Sep 2015 #21

Do you know why petroleum is a thing? Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #27

Oh bullshit. polly7 Sep 2015 #30

Great. But where did you see the numbers that show the Canadian mhatrw Sep 2015 #20

I don't know if someone has done that Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #22

Oh, so that's the problem. Cleita Sep 2015 #23

hong kong and china Snow Leopard Sep 2015 #25

I don't understand, I have a huge family and many friends who live all across Canada. polly7 Sep 2015 #24

I didn't say terrible, Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #31

Much better career prospects, how??? polly7 Sep 2015 #33

I have no agenda Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #37

Lmfao. polly7 Sep 2015 #40

If you're happy and they're happy, that is just great. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #42

Everyone has options ........... polly7 Sep 2015 #44

You are definitely reading something else entirely into this Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #45

No, you said a lot more than that polly7 Sep 2015 #46

Then what was this? Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #47

What??? polly7 Sep 2015 #48

You are clearly having a conversation with someone else, Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #49

Nope ... polly7 Sep 2015 #50

Got it. Anek Dote told you. mhatrw Sep 2015 #26

Socialism? Who said anything about socialism? Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #28

Toronto is a coastal city. mhatrw Sep 2015 #36

That is sort of the whole problem Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #38

Pardon? polly7 Sep 2015 #14

Not true laundry_queen Sep 2015 #15

SOCIALISM! mhatrw Sep 2015 #5

The banksters were not allowed to write banking legislation in Canada. applegrove Sep 2015 #8

Their housing market went the opposite way as ours post 2008 Tsiyu Sep 2015 #12

So I made the mistake of reading the comments laundry_queen Sep 2015 #18

in Toronto I was stuck by how nobody on the street looked like a rat who was just feeling lucky to MisterP Sep 2015 #29

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