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Originally Posted by Fading Isle
I guess I wasn't clear. We certainly couldn't afford a two bedroom centrally either. Too bad for us I guess. Never going to live in the type of neighbourhood we'd like to live in because we were late to the housing party.
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There are many centrally located two bedrooms for less than $400,000 in Ottawa. It's totally fine you want a different lifestyle. My point is the way we design our suburbs is what allows this. In European cities you end up anyway in 900 sq ft house with no yard. Dense enough to allow public transport. There are historic villages in Switzerland that have houses with main streets and trains into central Zurich but this was historic infrastructure and they are much much richer than us allowing such subsidies. I can't think if anywhere without a legacy trains being used that lets you have your suburban dream and good transit. The math just doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by Acajack
Not sure what you think Darouze is arguing, but no one in Ottawa politics thinks French is a prerequisite for being an elected public official these days.
It is a nice-to-have, under a best-case scenario only.
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Some roles it certainly is. Mayor of Ottawa seems like it should be close.
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