Re: Harley riding President? Tommy Thompson

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:38:37 GMT, me@xxxxxxxx (DougD) wrote:

In article <udtd23ll70mf1lqrs4fh3k1pp9fjfao0a6@xxxxxxx>, bobmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Well, it's not like the Island is all that inexpensive either.
It's been 19 years since I was last in Vancouver. Nice place to visit
etc.

Well, I can safely say that in those 19 years, the prices of ALL Vancouver
area housing has at least tripled, even for the most run down buildings.
The island is a little better, however we're in a huge residential
boom right now, they can't even come close to hiring enough contractors,
trades, to build what's on the board's for the next two years. And these are
for >$450k homes, condo's, etc. There are some huge mansions going up,
and we're even getting some of Vancouvers high end overflow where even
folks like Ophra have figured out that the $10mil she spent in vancouver
will get her 4 times more property and larger accomodations, so she's
building here now, although the woods and islands here are littered with
all sorts of folks. Miss P Anderson is building a >$4 million private wharf
and home to go with it just up the road in Ladysmith, so I'm sure at some
point we'll catch up with the mainland for pricing soon.

Ride it out and sell high before you move back to the middle.

We're having a similar problem here.
9 out of 10 houses sell for above list and new houses are getting
backed up more and more while, at the same time, they are running out
of development land.

I'm hoping my kids will find work in other cities so I can convince my
wife to move elsewhere. I've been in Winnipeg for 40 years. I like the
place but it's time for a change.

Yeah, I can imagine. Both my parents are from there, and I still have
some family in the area. One is a doc at the trauma center there and
he's just worn out from a big increase in violence related injuries
they're getting, and he's looking elsewhere, maybe B.C. as we could
always use more MD's.

Not sure there is more violence, just fewer docs to cover it.
The Grace looks like it might have to close its emergency room due to
staffing problems.
I went to Seven Oaks when I tore my biceps tendon a few months ago and
they had a minimum 6 hour wait to be seen. It looked more like 12 to
me based on how long some had already been sitting there. The Grace
was almost as bad.
Those are the quieter suburban hospitals. Forget Health Sciences.
I ended up going to the Misericordia which has been converted to an
urgent care facility instead of emergent. Only took 2 hours there.

I'm thinking BC interior, southern Ontario (but not near TO.) or down
east (QC, NB, NS)
I had a line on a house on acreage in NB for $125,000 with 700 feet of
ocean frontage but my wife wouldn't bite.

Sounds like a great deal, if I didn't have to be somewhere for work
purposes, I'd jump at something like that. It's going to get nuts
around here when the winter olympics are here, I may find myself
bailing out after that's over, I wouldn't mind setting up back in MN
again at some point. This is a great place though if you're riding,
just miles and miles of nice twisties in the mountains, etc. And if
you don't mind scuffing it up a bit, some 30,000 miles of abandoned
logging roads yet to be travelled on by the public, some complete
with camphouses that have been turned over to the park system,
so free accomadations can be had as well. The Okanagon area
seems to be booming a bit too for housing, but I've never been
there other than driving through..
Oh well, so much country, so few citizens..

D.

I would really like to experience living in a few places before I cash
out.
BC interior, Niagara Penninsula, Eastern Townships/Gaspe, Atlantic
Canada (including Nova Scotia Island <g>)
Then maybe France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Holland - who knows?

Parts of the Okanagan are really booming but there are bits away from
the main areas that are still okay.

You're right though. Canada is a huge, sparsely populated country and
we should try to take in as much as we can.
--
Bob Mann

It may be that your sole purpose in life
is to serve as a warning to others.
.

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