As someone who's trying to move back to Canada, I'm also reading that a lot of the places owned by these investors are basically useless boxes that no local would live in. So even if they got freed up, there'd be very little demand for them.
A castle in my city burned down maybe a few years ago. To me, it was just a tourist spot but my friends who live in another parts of the country were asking me if I was alright and showed me support by donating for its reconstruction efforts (even though I never donated a penny).
So, I was pretty surprised how I got a more sentimental than I thought I ever would when I saw the images of the castle burning and seeing the rubble in-person.
What I'm trying to say is, I would imagine people who have real emotional and spiritual connection to a landmark would take something like the girl's comments quite personally. The French guy's reaction might be a bit overkill, but the girl is definitely being insensitive. Even if she genuinely found it pleasing, she should have just kept it to herself or maybe phrased it better.
Why do they keep measuring the number of people returning from the US? My dummy brain thinks the number of people going to the US would indicate the number of Canadians visiting the shit hole. Is it because we only track people coming in?
But... why? It's only a pause and the US consumers are still paying more for no good reason. The situation just went from worst to less horrible and people are buying??
As much as I love many Nintendo games, their business practices are so anti-consumer. The Switch is definitely the last of their console I buy for the foreseeable future.
It's so expensive in the States... I live in Okinawa, Japan, so if I wanted to go to Disneyland, I'd have to fly to Tokyo and stay (not at the resort, somewhere in the city) for two few nights to make the most of the day in TDL. Even then, if I were to go today with my wife and two kids, it would probably only cost me 2-3k USD, total.
Do they actually think minor inconveniences like visa length are what's stopping us from visiting? Fuck, that shit hole country really is full of idiots.
It's also crazy because the reason why Americans win so many medals is because an American decided to make a bunch of swimming events which rich white Americans have an advantage in because many minorities in the US — including blacks — don't live in communities with access to pools, let alone in their homes.
What the fuck is this guy talking about?