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Mr Ferret 75

Mr Ferret 75

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JenniferS said:
The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.
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I feel your pain. Pretty much the same here. Average house price is north of £500 k and rental is very high.
 
donaldtoo

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JenniferS said:
The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.
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Oh friggin’ my…!!!
Our old house payment never even went nearly over 1K/month before we paid it off, even with crazily rising property values/taxes, and that was for 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and 1,625 sq. ft.
Things have really gotten outta’ hand, especially in Austin, although we’re now well outside of that nuthouse.
Before we moved my MIL in with us, we were paying $1,295/month for her to live in a 1-bedroom, 1-bath apartment.
Carolyn and I lived in that same complex before, and directly after we got married, and paid $325/month for a 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartment.
Granted, that was quite a few years ago, but good grief…!!!
 
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FutureCEO

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JenniferS said:
The cost of housing is prohibitive in Canada. Yeah, yeah, it’s expensive everywhere, but it’s stupid expensive up here. Rent too, by extension.

An entry level townhouse outside the GTA is more than $600K. A million or more inside the GTA.

Way up here in (almost) no man’s land, we are paying $2460 monthly for a <700 sq ft 2bed/1 bath apartment.

It’s not so much “failure to launch”, but more “if you didn’t buy before the COVID boom, you may never be able to afford to buy”.

This generation is resigned to being renters for the rest of their lives. Canada’s banks have very stringent lending criteria, exacerbated by the gov’t mandated “lending stress test”.
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The other day my dad was talking.

He's like I never really made more than $60K a year (as a police officer too!), bought a house and had 3 kids. My mom didn't work for a long time either. And the interest rate at the time was 12%.

Like it must be nice. (except for the interest rate)
 
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donaldtoo

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FutureCEO said:
The other day my dad was talking.

He's like I never really made more than $60K a year (as a police officer too!), bought a house and had 3 kids. My mom didn't work for a long time either. And the interest rate at the time was 12%.

Like it must be nice. (except for the interest rate)
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It’s crazy.
I’m pretty sure my Pop never made over about 50K/year base salary (not incl. benefits), working for IBM for 27 years. He retired 30 years ago.
The only job our Mom had, outside of the house, was working in the lunch room at the middle school across the street, in northwest Austin, once my 12-year-younger sis started going there. She actually still collects a small pension check from that job every month. They raised 4 of us on 1 salary, and I don’t remember us ever really wanting for anything.

My folks bought our second home in No Cal for 27K in 1971, and sold it for 57K when we moved back to Texas in 1976. They paid 57K for the much larger home here in Texas that they still live in.
Craziest thing is, that No Cal home they sold for 57K is now estimated at a value of $1.43 million…!!!!! :eek:🤪:hilarious:
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Recently it was stated by many that they hadn't seen the Mary Poppins Returns movie. Most say is that there never will be another Mary Poppins movie worth watching. I found this song on You Tube and thought that many might like to hear it. This is the song that I said was at least as good as "Feed the Birds" was in the original. This song is sung when Mary Poppins is putting the next generation Banks Children to bed and she sees that they are all missing their mother who had passed away a few months earlier. It is a beautiful song and very meaningful. Enjoy!

 
rshell68

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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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A bunch on the list below is pretty standard fare, but I’m pretty sure there’s a bit there that others have never had…I marked everything I’ve had in red…looks like I’m pretty Texan 🤠😅, but, based on the list, I bet some of y’all out there are a bit “Texan”, as well…!!!!! :hilarious: ;)

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Tiggerish

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I'm from NY, not Oklahoma. But I used to travel to Dallas a few times a year for work.

Couple questions:
1. What's the difference between 6 and 34?
2. Do you have to actually like all the things you've eaten? I've tasted Dr. Pepper, but I don't like it. (I hope we can still be friends)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Tiggerish said:
I'm from NY, not Oklahoma. But I used to travel to Dallas a few times a year for work.

Couple questions:
1. What's the difference between 6 and 34?
2. Do you have to actually like all the things you've eaten? I've tasted Dr. Pepper, but I don't like it. (I hope we can still be friends)
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Yea, I, myself, kinda’ wondered why just “ribs” was included.
Texas ribs are usually distinguished by prepping them with a dry rub of salt, pepper, and other spices, as desired, before slow smoking them.
Either way, I’ve had ribs many different ways, including Texas ribs, more times than I could ever remember…!!! ;)
As far as DP goes, I haven’t had one in years, as I really don’t drink soft drinks anymore (mostly just beer and water ;)), but I used to drink them from time to time back in the day, and liked them.
I had an Aunt (unfortunately, recently deceased) that used to drink nothing but DP.
Also, far as having to like everything on the list, I don’t think that applies…I’m pretty sure you just have to have, at least, tried it…!!! :)
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
donaldtoo said:
A bunch on the list below is pretty standard fare, but I’m pretty sure there’s a bit there that others have never had…I marked everything I’ve had in red…looks like I’m pretty Texan 🤠😅, but, based on the list, I bet some of y’all out there are a bit “Texan”, as well…!!!!! :hilarious: ;)

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I got 27. Talk about just squeaking through to being a True Texan!
 

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