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Originally Posted by logan5
The cost of living in New West is actually a bit lower than in Calgary (that's including rent), so the move to Calgary is completely unnecessary. Despite what her perceptions are of Calgary, it doesn't have nearly the same urban lifestyle or amenities. She'll be back, sans the sob story though...
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New Westminster is about 45 minutes transit to downtown unless your thinking of going from station to station which statistically is a pretty big exception to the norm. In fact its at least that far to most major job centers. Sure you might have a job closer, maybe your partner will as well, but not everyone can fall in that category (literally because there are not enough jobs close to New Westminster, yet alone good jobs). Also keep in mind that is 45 minutes by transit, crowded transit, with transfers. If it was 45 minutes on a train, no transfers beyond some short walking on either end, with wifi and a seat fine, a bit long, but you can make productive use of your commute time instead of just losing it and at most listening to music for 90 minutes every day. And the crowding, it will get much much worse. That is one thing people don't do, they don't extrapolate the trends, population growth, future infrastructure improvements and so and so forth.
At the end of the day New Westminster is a far flung suburb where most people with decent jobs have a 30-45 min one way commute, and a commute that will get only worse.
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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster
Pinion there is no doubt Vancouver is in the midst of an affordability crisis, largely not of its own doing, but it's there. I don't blame anyone for leaving, I personally have lived in a few places around the world and would encourage it to anyone as it greatly broadens your horizons and gives a tremendous amount of perspective. My only regret is that I didn't live in more places before I came home. What I do blame people for is the winging and moaning without doing jack all about it. Barrages of articles complaining about the housing price, but no one supporting groups like Abundant Housing or getting in front of their local council to push for more rental stock etc... Instead it's F Crusty Clark its all her fault, or let's stop immigration and see what happens. I don't own in this city and as a younger person myself it's quite daunting, but I fight for what I perceive as a solution, rather than just bitching from my keyboard. I'm at every development open house I can be advocating for more units and more family friendly units, I've written council numerous times to voice my support for increased density across the board. If more people had taken a proactive approach rather than ranting from their keyboard to no one then maybe this situation wouldn't be so bad. But I guess moving to Calgary is easier.
And further to be completely honest the "Vancouver isn't what I used to know" nonsense is just so provincial and insular. Not only are cities constantly changing entities, so the entire notion is absurd, but even more so Vancouver is still very much Vancouver. Ya there are more supercars and luxury shops, but you can still find funky shops on main, yoga everywhere and a laid-back vibe that if you visit anywhere outside of the PNW becomes quite obvious. I still love it here, even if Vancouver is having some serious growing pains. If you don't that's too bad, and I truly hope you find somewhere that you do love, but be warned it will probably change as the years progress as well.
And the person in the article complaining that Shaughnessy feels hollow? Gimme a break, that neighbourhood has never had an ounce of character. What a joke. Good riddance to a completely out of touch person.
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I left but it was easy for me as I had roots elsewhere. But I did do something, I see that the quickest solution is lowering immigration rates through all streams, that should be the first move. Then when you have breathing room you can begin to look at everything else. First slow down the leak before looking for a bigger pale. I joined the conservative party of Canada because they had some candidates that proposed to lower the quotas to 2015 levels (which is a nearly 30% reduction from today). I voted NDP because they are the ones that can expedite the inevitable fall in the regions quality of life, and as a result maybe get people motivated to start looking at the real problems and real solutions. I did enough. And I moved because I am not about to wait for decades for things to maybe start changing because once I looked at what will happen over the next 10 to 20 years I realized I would be better off betting everything I have on black, on the roulette table. In Vegas. Then to stay in Vancouver.
My tactics might sound harsh, they might even piss you off. But I think long and hard about what I do. Also I respect your opinion, you want to be invested in this city, your life here is not so bad, and you want its image to be positive. Fair enough. Positive thinking is great. It can also get you in trouble when you don't jump ship soon enough and end up losing too much time. Time you can't ever get back.
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