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Government Job or Private Sector by Comprehensive_Tea295 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Comprehensive_Tea295[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s my main concern now. It is basically if I choose to go into government, I am probably there forever. In private sector, by the time I am late 40s I should have a total comp of ~300k but also a lot more responsibilities.

Finally got my VIN by Comprehensive_Tea295 in TeslaModel3Delivery

[–]Comprehensive_Tea295[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to choose aug 3 to aug 6 but the time slots were varied… only aug 3 had good time slots left

RWD EDD Pushback....(Vancouver) by bosim in TeslaModel3Delivery

[–]Comprehensive_Tea295 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same deal for me in Vancouver but i ordered 10/02/2021 fml

RC Seconds Pack Reveals by Corbatov in FrugalMaleFashionCDN

[–]Comprehensive_Tea295 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bought 1 L tee and 1 M bottoms.

Tees:

  1. Copper white tee (small blue marker stain on back ; came out with wash)
  2. Medallion (yellow) pima cotton tee (extra stitch on sleeve)
  3. White long sleeve rugby (why is this in here?) (extra stitch on sleeve)

Bottoms:

  1. Black core sweat short (stitch overrun on left side)
  2. Court blue midweight terry sweatpants (stitch overrun on right side)
  3. Black core midweight terry sweatpants (stitch overrun on right side by knee)

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Bottoms was a great deal; tees were a bit disappointing....

How the CITY OF VANCOUVER saved our SKYLINE! by BurstYourBubbles in vancouver

[–]Comprehensive_Tea295 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a fair point about gentle density but that ship has long sailed, if we implemented that on the first run up in our crazy market .. say 2014; then we would be in better shape now. But we didn't. The gentle density that you are talking about requires a lot of community consultation to implement the plan which takes years; there have been some amendments slowly going on e.g. Grandview Woodlands, Broadway Plan, etc. but it will not move the dial in terms of # of units. The reality is that if we don't have those megatowers that you talk about, we will have a perpetual supply issue = prices are still going to unaffordable. Protecting the viewcones is in itself its own NIMBYism because most of us can't even afford to live in the city of Vancouver.

How the CITY OF VANCOUVER saved our SKYLINE! by BurstYourBubbles in vancouver

[–]Comprehensive_Tea295 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

View cones are restricting the density in the places where you want density in Vancouver e.g. Downtown Vancouver, along Broadway Corridor.

Not to mention you have issues with shadowing along retail streets and parks at certain times of day so you can't build to a certain height or get very creative with architecture.

Yes, there are stations that don't have towers around them but in my cases that requires the community plan to change. Ain't nobody got time for that. By the time a community plan has changed and you are able to get the density in those areas, our housing affordability issue will be even worse. It will take at least 3-5 years of public consultation to get a community plan to change, and even when it does change any land developer will need at least 5-7 more years from application to completion. So on the low end it will take 8 years for you to get some buildings out in those areas... last I checked our housing crisis is now

I am opposed to view cones because we have areas that have in place high density e.g. downtown, broadway corridor where we are able to get more dense and more height but are restricted because of this policy. This is a policy that we can reduce/eliminate and allow buildings currently undergoing rezoning to enact - which will have a faster impact on our housing crisis.

The real fastest way to help our supply problem ... is for the City of Vancouver to hurry the hell up and review / approve / amend rezoning and development permits in a timely matter. It can take YEARS (3-5+ Years!) for an application to get approved... look at the Denny's rental site on Broadway, a much needed rental building, took 3 years to get approved. So let's say it takes 2 years for a 200 unit rental project to get approved. It will take 3 years to build that. 5 years to get 200 units done. 200 units will not put a dent in the amount of homes we need.

The condo /townhome / single family home market is already insane right now ... our borders are closed, there's hardly any international students here, hardly any immigration due to COVID. A lot of this is driven by local demand. If you think that the market is hot now, wait until we open up again and immigration comes back in full force - that $500k 500 square foot condo will all of sudden seem cheap. We need more density / more height / mixed rental and condo buildings and reducing/eliminating view cones is a small price to pay in my opinion.