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COVID and the housing market
- Thread starter mimico_polak
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LOL Thanks!...I think!Can confirm he’s good at smashing a
Would hire.
That reminds me. Some smartass on here is gonna start asking for the 2022 schedule soon. I SEE YOU @sburns
Mad Mike
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I agree. When I worked for the bank I saw what I believed was financial fraud and money laundering every day. I could write a book on the different schemes and scams people use to cheat gov't and others out of money.
As a banker, I was prohibited from 'snitching' as that would violate the privacy of the bank's customers. I could report suspicious transactions to the bank and did regularly. I never saw anything come of it.
sburns
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whoa what did I get dragged into....
BTW I keep seeing these ads for a Brazilian Burger place somewhere around Toronto...
You are making good money. When you look at net worth increase per day of work, teachers are rocking even if the number on the T4 doesn't look crazy big compared to some other professions. The vast majority of the jobs making 200-300 will be working a lot more hours per year (and have a lot less income and job stability). Once you pass a threshold that allows you to live securely, happiness matters more than the number.
Your doing just fine . Great pension, what looks like a fair amount of vacation, retire at 55-56? 'Almost' impossible to get fired, and get to meet single dads
Attended a council meeting recently in a City in southern Ontario. Developer wants to build three-storey stacked towns (18 units). Neighbour calls in and asks for two-storey and is worried about the additional traffic on an arterial road. Same thing happens with every proposed development. If anyone ever wants transit to work, density needs to go way up along arterial roads.
I'm in transit development / construction and we get the same thing all the time. 'Why don't we have more subways / LRTs / more developed network!?'
It's a simple answer....we do not have the population density to support it. Our cities are meant to allow cars to travel. European cities were built way before cars, and as such are not as spread out. We don't have that issue.
You will never meet the Asian / European density numbers in Canada because there's simply not enough people to support the infrastructure expenditure. 'If you build it they will come'...sure...in 50-100 years.
Also, our transit plans change with each gov't change. Many projects would be built faster if there was a separate, unattached, body that decides on the transit planning moving forward...with zero impact / input from political forces. Some countries do this well...some do not. We can't separate them, so we have what we have.
To make big bucks on hourly you make the money on your workers. 600 office cleaners and you make $0.50 on each makes you $300 an hour = $600,000 a year. Your job is to SELL your service.
you stereotyping
Yup...hence the NIMBYism...people don't want affordable / cheaper housing in their neighbourhood because of all the negative stereotypes (right or wrong).
I'm all down for a homeless shelter...just don't put it on my street / area.
I've read/heard from a few people that since a new homeless shelter arrived in the Yonge / Eglinton area the entire area has gone downhill super fast. Whether that's true or not I'm not sure, but it's plausible. Fights, drugs, muggings, etc. More 'vagrants'.
Everyone wants to help the less fortunate...just so long as it doesn't affect them negatively.
If you have 600 employees and make .50 on each , and make 600K a year , enjoy your one yr in business and dont plan an anniversary party.
I tease, I get what your saying and thats how it works , but your math is too light.
I pay a bartender $17.00 an hour at my club , tips are 100% theirs. If you rent my club I ding you $25 an hr for my bartender.
Every stereotype has come from some experience / small grain of truth. Sure you can't paint everyone with the same brush...but sometimes the reality is that bringing in certain type of housing...brings in a certain type of person.
Rent out an apartment for $500....the poorer people will run in droves to it, and the more affluent will be like 'wtf...I don't want to live in a $500/month apartment...must be a dump / garbage area'.
Yes , I was typing a bit tongue in cheek , but you hit a bit of reality, nobody wants the bus stop in front of their house, glass box, ciggy butts and coffee cups. Or even the teen crisis home , you dont want that next door because you know there will be stuff go down. Nobody wants that next door if avoidable.
A high school friend has a halfway house that opened down her street. "Halfway" would be a very optimistic term. She has had to teach her kids to stay far away from the needles on her lawn (and tell an adult) and they have had people OD in their driveway. It's ugly. She supports them having a safe space but they are unwilling or unable to keep drug use confined to the property.
We always joke that the richer the neighbourhood, the less sidewalks they have. Our street doesn't have a sidewalk! LoL Are we doing this right?
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