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Dire for Merritt (evacuated), Princeton (under water), Hope (all highways closed or curtailed), Abbotsford (under water), Chilliwack (under water), Fernie (no h
by cf100clunk 5y ago
Dire for Merritt (evacuated), Princeton (under water), Hope (all highways closed or curtailed), Abbotsford (under water), Chilliwack (under water), Fernie (no highway access) and a host of other places on the mainland and on the Island that are vital transport, agricultural, forestry, tourism, and mining centres. You mentioned prices, so scale it up to international economics level.
- Dylan16807 5y agozaptheimpaler specifically said they were talking about the reporting on Vancouver, not elsewhere.
- klyrs 5y agoIf I had a nickel for every time folks have suggested moving out to the country as a solution to the housing crisis...
- cf100clunk 5y agoHe he, and if I had 4 million nickels I might be able to afford a small home in Metro Vancouver. [EDIT] see reply - should say 40 million but what the heck, I ruined the joke.
- ant6n 5y agoYou _might_ be able to afford a small home for 200K?? I thought Vancouver was much more expensive than that. Or do you mean only the down payment.
- arcticbull 5y agoDid someone suggest that?
- klyrs 5y agoIt comes up pretty frequently, in topics about remote work, housing crisis, homelessness, minimum wages, etc.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoOnto a floodplain...
- elihu 5y agoI think a reasonable variation on that strategy is for a bunch of people to "move out to the country" all at once, and in roughly the same place. I.e. bootstrap a new city. It'd take a high level of coordination to pull it off successfully though. Ideally they would move somewhere not in a flood plain and not subject to a substantially higher risk of natural disasters (or the not-entirely-natural disasters brought on by climate change). Part of the reason we have a shortage of housing in cities that people want to live in is that we have a shortage of cities that people want to live in. Otherwise, just moving to the country just means you're dependent on infrastructure in different ways. You might be able to grow your own food if you had to, which is an option city people don't really have. That's worth something.
- Kluny 5y agoAlso Cowichan (cut off by road and also on an island) and the Gulf Islands (many without power, probably for a long time).
- swader999 5y agoFernie is accessible both from the south and the east.