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Pointing out how foreign nationals are buying up houses in the Greater Vancouver Area and feeding our local housing bubble is "slightly racist"? Edit: Nevermin

Pointing out how foreign nationals are buying up houses in the Greater Vancouver Area and feeding our local housing bubble is "slightly racist"? Edit: Nevermind, your post seems to have completely changed. I suppose you're just afraid this will translate into Xenophobia against [presumably] people like you.

beachstartup 11y ago
i was in the middle of editing my comment when you replied. how is this any different than rich white dot com yuppies pushing lifelong latino or black residents out of San Francisco? am i supposed to feel sad for them, or sad for the white people getting pushed out of vancouver by rich asian people? the answer is i don't really feel sad for either group. i'm sure it's sad if you're the one being pushed, but hey, apparently it happens to everyone.
- danieltillett 11y ago
  I actually do feel sad for all groups being pushed out of their home, but as you rightly point out this is part of life. What is different about Vancouver is people are being pushed out of their homes and nobody is moving in. Seems a great waste of a beautiful location.
  - jarek 11y ago
    > Seems a great waste of a beautiful location. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One might inquire what the First Nations think about white man's towers of glass and Vancouver Specials in what used to be beautiful temperate rainforest...
    - danieltillett 11y ago
      Vancouver for all its development is still a beautiful place.
      - jarek 11y ago
        Yeah but it's hard to say it wasn't a waste of a beautiful location plopping down crap like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jp... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotia_Tower_Vancouver_2015.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotia_Tower_Vancouver_20... and hectares of Specials in the 1970s ... and I actually like good brutalism, modernism, and international style, can't imagine what people who don't like them at all must think

beachstartup 11y ago

i was in the middle of editing my comment when you replied. how is this any different than rich white dot com yuppies pushing lifelong latino or black residents out of San Francisco? am i supposed to feel sad for them, or sad for the white people getting pushed out of vancouver by rich asian people? the answer is i don't really feel sad for either group. i'm sure it's sad if you're the one being pushed, but hey, apparently it happens to everyone.

danieltillett 11y ago
I actually do feel sad for all groups being pushed out of their home, but as you rightly point out this is part of life. What is different about Vancouver is people are being pushed out of their homes and nobody is moving in. Seems a great waste of a beautiful location.
- jarek 11y ago
  > Seems a great waste of a beautiful location. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One might inquire what the First Nations think about white man's towers of glass and Vancouver Specials in what used to be beautiful temperate rainforest...
  - danieltillett 11y ago
    Vancouver for all its development is still a beautiful place.
    - jarek 11y ago
      Yeah but it's hard to say it wasn't a waste of a beautiful location plopping down crap like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jp... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotia_Tower_Vancouver_2015.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotia_Tower_Vancouver_20... and hectares of Specials in the 1970s ... and I actually like good brutalism, modernism, and international style, can't imagine what people who don't like them at all must think