The monkey thought it was all in good fun
Pop! goes the weasel
All I want is a place to live without giving some parasite landlord half of my paycheck every month
:deeper-sadness:
"Oh you want your own home?? Just pick up everything you own, leave your friends and family, swallow your politics and move to rural Alberta you entitled millenial" -every comment in articles about real estate
The sub that I took this from has an even better idea: just move to the US!
If it's /r/canadahousing, that sub has an absurd worship of the states, like it's a utopia.
Such potential for a space of agitation and class consciousness, and yet it's at least 50% "foreign investment" and salivating over America.
Ding ding ding! Someone here used the words "politically confused" and that has stuck with me.
This is what happens the gate closes on the young, salaried urban professionals and they tumble out of their high chairs into their first taste of the wrong end of material politics. It's all a big moral outrage and oh they'll fuck over Mr. Trudeau and his money printers big time when they hop the border to cash in on their proximity to the imperial core and its defense sector.
Yeah sure, I'll come too, with my <$20,000 a year income, and give up on ever having healthcare for the rest of my life. Goodbye mom and dad, I'm trying to score some points here.
what's Quebec doing? do they have like a sucdem city government?
edit: Quebec apparently has province wide rent-control & comparatively good tenants rights. i cannot find out how these were achieved though :vivian-shrug:
Having a separate language and a more insulated stand-alone culture and media helps to shelter the market a little. Montreal specifically has something of a left, lots of students and broke artsy fartsy anglophones, and a dedicated activist core. I wouldn't be surprised if that helps a little.
Quebec City is certainly more conservative but also smaller, more francophone, and maybe a bit more isolated from the rest of the housing market. Idk really, only been there once.
