I'd generally agree, but unfortunately, we work in very specialized fields. The options in Canada for this work are Toronto or Vancouver. Otherwise its the USA and visas are a pain. We did that for a few years and while cheaper, that's a big fucking nope now.
This is the one thing that needs addressing. Seeing someone's post 15x over two pages just makes me want to stop using Lemmy. Consolidation of crossposts would be huge please!
The average house price in the 80s was 3x the typical family's annual income. Yes, 21% was high but had much smaller principals comapred to the 5%+ we have now when homes are at least 7x the typical family income.
Even worse in CCOL (Crazy Cost of Living) areas like Toronto or Vancouver. Vancouver needs a family income of over 225k to qualify for a mortgage on the average house price. This average house is not a dream home, you're lucky if it's 1200 SQ feet and in a safe neighborhood. Or within a 75 minute drive to work. Don't even get me started on trying to buy a car today either.
I think what we need to do is not compare how fucked it was then, I don't disagree that it was.
However it's clearly fucked now and nobody's doing anything to unfuck it.
An asteroid in the outer solar system. If we vote hard enough to have it win in our broken FPTP system. it'll alter course and end this horrible timeline.
New to fediverse, so bear with me if this is dumb to the rest of y'all.
How does this work? I'm seeing this post all across my feed using (Sync) because it's been created across many instances. Is this a feature of the federated model or is this someone making a feature request and spamming it across instances for views. Any way to identify and dedupe posts across instances?
I'm in the 35-59 year old bracket and desperately want home prices to drop. I've done everything our parent's generation said to do to succeed and the goalposts move faster than I can make money.
When two adults making low six figures can't qualify for an average home, something is deeply deeply broken in this country.
The shitty part is there's no one in government who gives half a shit about it to actually do something.
'oh look, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions'
I feel for people, but this is exactly what the government legislated. We can't demand they pay a tax if they want to do business and then get mad when they decide to not do that business here.
New Vancouverite here, previously from Montreal. The answer is that it's fucked. 1bdrm hitting 3k a month and 2bdrm is about 3800. I can't imagine how service works are surviving. Min wage is 16.75/hr but living wages are mathed out to about 25/hr and even that would be hard.
Salaries seem to be generally lower since it's beautiful and has mild winters. I'm not sure how long we'll stay if things don't get better soon. Sadly local politics are NIMBY friendly and not doing anything useful. In fact they just reduced the vacant home tax...because people weren't reporting it on their taxes voluntarily.
It's too bad because we found dream jobs in specialized fields here, the only other real option is Toronto (ugh, no) or the US (hard no).
Or pack the court with judges aligned to their interests to overturn 40 year old precedent.