OT: Vancouver People

[Hank Kingsley]

So you're saying the $4400 I just paid in property taxes here on Vancouver Island is a bargain?

Exactamundo.

Low taxes and no mortgage, doesn’t get any better than that.

 

[puckhead]

So you're saying the $4400 I just paid in property taxes here on Vancouver Island is a bargain?

Greater Vancouver has a population of about 2.4 Million people (2021), only behind Toronto and Montreal.
however, Vancouver itself has a population of 660,000 people.
that's about half the size of Calgary, and smaller than Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Mississauga. Soon to be passed by Brampton.

Vancouver is always trying to keep up with world class cities, and have an infrastructure for the entire lower mainland.
The population base simply cannot support it.

 

[puckhead]

For Vancouver, I would say they should increase the price of services however how do you do that when the services offered are already so shitty after cutbacks. All those CUPE wages are a killer. Did they already sub contract a portion of garbage/waste pickup?

yeah, GFL (I think) does the recycling now.
so you put your stuff out on a Friday (before 7am, they say!) and then maybe it will get picked up by Tuesday.
If not, then we get an email to bring it back in, and they'll try again next week.

I can't recall a time in the past 6 months or so where all three items were picked up on the day it was scheduled.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I'm paying as much property tax today in Coquitlam as I did for the last house I had outside Toronto despite this one being assessed as almost twice as much.

I also live at the base of a mountain at the top of a giant hill and anytime there's snow or ice the road is plowed and salted, have a lovely maintained park across the street and great trail network around me.

I'm good.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

yeah, GFL (I think) does the recycling now.
so you put your stuff out on a Friday (before 7am, they say!) and then maybe it will get picked up by Tuesday.
If not, then we get an email to bring it back in, and they'll try again next week.

I can't recall a time in the past 6 months or so where all three items were picked up on the day it was scheduled.

theres the rub for privatizing services ... you may cut public service union wages (and those union members might slash city councilors tires) but then end up with a contractor that cant deliver the service

 

[puckhead]

on top of interest rates on my mortgage cranking the fuck up well beyond where they need to go.
("but inflation is still strong" the government says - the biggest fucking part of that is housing expense increase... i.e. mortgage payments increasing due to the higher interest rates. Rent increasing on tenant turnover so landlords can afford their mortgages and taxes)

I was partly speaking out of my ass, but holy smokes, this was dead on

MSN

www.msn.com

More expensive mortgage costs are the single biggest factor influencing the inflation rate, the data agency said. If mortgage costs are stripped out of the numbers, Canada's headline inflation rate would have been 2.5 per cent.


target inflation is 2%. We are there, stop boosting the fucking rates.
and roll back the last one, for what it's worth




/vote for lowering puckhead's mortgage payments

 

[dash]

I was partly speaking out of my ass, but holy smokes, this was dead on

MSN

www.msn.com

More expensive mortgage costs are the single biggest factor influencing the inflation rate, the data agency said. If mortgage costs are stripped out of the numbers, Canada's headline inflation rate would have been 2.5 per cent.


target inflation is 2%. We are there, stop boosting the fucking rates.
and roll back the last one, for what it's worth




/vote for lowering puckhead's mortgage payments

Food as well (still seems to be very expensive especially for chicken and steak).

/I'm a proud Albertan living in BC, don't judge me.

 

[mattola]

Food as well (still seems to be very expensive especially for chicken and steak).

/I'm a proud Albertan living in BC, don't judge me.

Steak is beyond insane.

Chicken has been expensive for a long time but Steak has gone through the roof.

 

[mattola]

I was partly speaking out of my ass, but holy smokes, this was dead on

MSN

www.msn.com

More expensive mortgage costs are the single biggest factor influencing the inflation rate, the data agency said. If mortgage costs are stripped out of the numbers, Canada's headline inflation rate would have been 2.5 per cent.


target inflation is 2%. We are there, stop boosting the fucking rates.
and roll back the last one, for what it's worth




/vote for lowering puckhead's mortgage payments

are you on variable?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

These resulting car lease and finance rates are a kick in the junk too ... My wifes gonna end up with a Buick Envision the way I operate lol

 

[puckhead]

are you on variable?

no.
I have a Line of Credit portion that is tied to prime, but that's minor.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

a sturgeon in the ocean ... who knew

Diver comes face to face with sturgeon in ocean off Galiano Island

A man was diving in the ocean when he felt something 'bump' into him.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[jstewismybastardson]

hope the driver still has a head



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[mattola]

hope the driver still has a head



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they need a seriousness crackdown on these drivers man.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

How does a cop shoot someone in a fuckin hospital?

 

[puckhead]

How does a cop shoot someone in a fuckin hospital?

to borrow from a great film.... easy, you just don't lead 'em as much

 

[dash]

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Good reasons to stay home.

 

[dash]

 

[mattola]

Didn't they put a ferry into service Thursday until Tuesday??

I bet they give themselves big ol'.bonuses this year too