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Originally Posted by scryer
Leave Trump in the American forums where he belongs, please.
For the record I don't think that this topic is taboo. The average developer's effect on the community is definitely something that should be at least be discussed. And I can see why, as you don't have to look any further than Metrotown to watch developers push people out of their homes so that they can sell condos to Asia.
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We can talk about being anti immigration but in the end numbers don't lie. Our population grows at around 1% even with us being as open to immigrants as we are. We rely on immigrants for people because otherwise our country would die. We need youth to pay taxes to afford to pay for our aging population and increasing social security/welfare burdens. We can complain about immigrants but in the end we need more! Not less. Or we need to push people to have more kids. Probably shouldn't have chased down that polygamy guy with 24 wives and 145 kids, he was helping us quite a bit. A few more like him and we can shutdown immigration! (Not supporting child marriage here, but honestly a cult that has 5 kids for each woman really does benefit us a lot long as the kids are well taken care of).
Also the interior is dying and honestly immigrants pushing locals out of Vancouver into the interior helps. The high price of living in the city also helps restrict people from moving from the interior to here.
Canada honestly needs 2-3x our population. So less anti immigration and more having kids. Maybe if our population growth didn't rely on immigration we can start talking about closing the borders.
And its not like they get big burley people to force people out of their homes. They offer them money, lots of money. And those people say yipee! take the money and move somewhere else for cheaper while pocketing the difference. Rather than push people out of their homes, its a win win situation. In the end we rely on developers to create our rental, below market rental, social, and other types of housing so we can't exactly burn our bridges. They are law abiding citizens/companies who are following our rules and regulations.
At least the homeless non taxpayers still have new homes in the best parts of Vancouver? Aka modular housing.