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Originally Posted by YOWetal
The part where you don't travel until you're 30 and eat out twice a year. But you had rich parents. Mine didn't get a career till they were 35 as there weren't any.
A friends younger brother is a teacher friend and bought a central attached Toronto house on one income in 2017. Dude still has a Flipphone. Rented a room for $500 and paid off student loans in 18 months and saved $25k a year for 6 years after that to buy a house at 30ish (I think he had some big stock wins too but still)
If you think getting rid of the gatekeepers is going to help I'm glad you are supporting the Cons so us rich folks can save on our capital gains. (Though I am kind of pissed I triggered some before last June's deadline for nothing)
I mean we need a Conservative government and it's clear now Carney is going to be only a minor course correction so insufficient But I just find the generational arguments ridiculous.
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I don't think your friend's brother's 2017 scheme would still work, but even if it did, telling young voters they are expected to live miserable austere lives so the boomers can have theirs is not a great electoral strategy.
I am doubtful PP can get rid of the gatekeeprs, but certainly if he found a way to do that there would be a significant amount of housing available pretty quickly (Canada is one of the few places in the world where large cities are mostly single family homes).
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