Canada is growing fast population up 5%

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 03:13

hmmm talk to Devil about Kelowna he seems to be a big fan.

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 03:16

Yeah you should travel sometime, its fun.

Can't wait to take that drive to the west coast this summer for school.

Lil Me · Mar 13 07 03:23

List of Good places to live:
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Devil · Mar 13 07 06:27

Sportsdude wrote:
hmmm talk to Devil about Kelowna he seems to be a big fan.
Actually, you may have that confused with the North Okanagan. More of the quiet parts. North of Vernon, etc. Kelowna is nice to visit mind you.

Aww, purelife, I thought you liked Vancouver? I know I loved it a lot more after I moved to the US and came back. Too bad it is so friggin' expensive. Mind you, it is getting $$ in all the cities these days it seems though. I guess I left for a better job, and a better home.

I would move back to BC, but I doubt Vancouver.

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 06:42

Yup its expensive everywhere on the west coast. Its where people want to live. Cheapest in Canada is probably Winterpeg, if you can survive the winters.

Devil · Mar 13 07 06:47

Yeah, I doubt Winnipeg would be great on the 'ol snowboarding scene too? I heard you need a rifle to kill mosquitoes, not a swatter.

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 06:49

yeah all those lakes, bugs galore.

Devil · Mar 13 07 06:52

I will say this though. Manitoba has the potential to be a superpower province with an abundance of fresh water like that in the future.

Water is the most important resource on Earth...besides pizza that is.

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 07:01

true.

purelife · Mar 13 07 08:00

[div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Aww, purelife, I thought you liked Vancouver? I know I loved it a lot more after I moved to the US and came back. Too bad it is so friggin' expensive. Mind you, it is getting $$ in all the cities these days it seems though. I guess I left for a better job, and a better home.[/div] [span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]I would move back to BC, but I doubt Vancouver.[/span]
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Not really. I am making my life bearable in Vancouver while I'm still living here. The only reason why I haven't up and go to another place is that our family is here. If I was offered a better job, in say, Kelowna or Penticton, that paid me 20 grand more than what I'm making, YES, I would take it in a heart beat. I'm getting tired of the city life. The people here are freaking RUDE (not all, just some). It's damn cliquey. It's tough to make NEW friends and keep them. I've made friends but so many of them come and go. Nobody has the time to keep in touch. I could only do so much. Uh, I hope that I don't sound depressed or like I'm whining. I have no choice at the moment but to live it as much as I can since I'm in Vancouver. Did I mention that it's DAMN EXPENSIVE and nearly impossible to buy a home??!!!!

/end of rant

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 08:05

Its the same everywhere pl, my friend can't find a place to live without moving into the dangerous part of the city. And this is in the middle of the country. The bubble has burst here so to speak though, people can't sell their homes anymore.

But I understand.

purelife · Mar 13 07 08:10

Uh, I don't believe that it's the same everywhere. Housing prices are considerably lower in certain areas and it's a lot cheaper than Vancouver.

Sportsdude · Mar 13 07 08:20

not necessarily. To get a one bedroom apartment here its 400-600 dollars a month. You'd be lucky to find that though.

4 bedroom homes no basement start at 250k. (that's my house) back when my parents bought it they got it for 75k.

But west coast is always more expensive then everywhere else because its where people want to live.

But the housing market here has slowed, construction crews have stopped building homes, my friends neighbour was trying to sell her house at 300k but nobody is buying so they dropped it to 250k.

I've looked at Vancouver homes and its the cheaper homes that seem to be the more expensive then they should be. I looked up my home in the Vancouver ads and it came out the same price range as what my family and my grandmother (she owns half of the house) got it for.

Devil · Mar 13 07 08:47

I know what you mean purelife. I fluked out. I was able to sell my tiny condo and when I moved, bought a nice house here. Thing was, Calgary was affordable up to late 2005. Now it is more expensive to buy a home here than TO!? I got lucky and beat the craziness.

You want to know what is really sad? There is over 20 million dollars in building permits expected for 2007, not ONE rental unit is expected.

Rich are getting scary rich, and the poor..shafyed!

I think the Okanagan is pretty pricey too these days?

Lil Me · Mar 13 07 08:48

I wanna move to Dog River, SK. Anyone with me?