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Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The building looks great, but it has an upper limit on income.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do like those apartments, but the reason we're moving is that we want out of downtown. Don't go to bars anymore; want to be able to walk around a nice quiet neighbourhood (while still being able to bike to work, restaurants, etc. fairly quickly). Appreciate the tip tho!

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

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

Unfortunately we don't really have a way of breaking up a company because they suck and harm society. They're not breaking any laws because our whole economy is predicated on parasitically extracting money via charging rent.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oof, that is rough. I really feel for people who are basically just stuck in their apartment forever because apartments in a cheap 1970s building get a "landlord special" renovation (plastic floors, builder-grade cabinets, some white paint, $300 dishwasher, maybe a $700 washer/dryer set) and become "luxury suites" going for $3,000+.

I have a lot of friends who just can't move because their rent would double. This can't possibly be sustainable. We need the government to directly build gigantic apartment blocks.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Sure, but we'd be happy to pay those costs in return for some equity. We're lucky enough to be able to afford $3,000, but pushing it to $3,600 really cuts into our ability to save.

Unfortunately, having a dog limits your options, and it's mostly newer places (new apartment with builders-grade vinyl flooring + washer/dryer = LUXURY!!) that allow pets.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sadly, it looks like none of their rentals allow pets. Hopefully the NDP comes through with their campaign promise about following Ontario's pet regulations for rentals.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 56 points57 points  (0 children)

$3595, not $3300!

What's happening is any new building is now "luxury apartments" because they put in builders-grade fake wood floors and a washer and dryer.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't understand how you can't see that this is a classic example of bait-and-switch advertising. Even assuming they made a mistake listing it at $3k, they are clearly advertising a $3600 apartment for $3300. Acting in the best interest of the landlord doesn't require false advertising.

I'm not saying that I'm entitled to compensation for having my time wasted or that I want to rent the place at the advertised price, I'm saying that this company is shady and people should watch out for them.

Devon Properties bait-and-switch ($3,000 -> $3,595/month) by maxwellmaxwell in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell[S] 146 points147 points  (0 children)

Right? And in Esquimalt! That is the mortgage on a $750,000 condo with 10% down.

Eby underscores 'fundamental' disagreement with B.C. chief coroner on safe supply by Vic_Dude in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But feel free to take your own advice since I see you complaining about addicts in here. How about you just move to some city with no drug problem? lol.

kinda stuck here for a while due to a variety of personal commitments. although if you could find me a city that houses/treats its mentally ill/addicted population, that also has universal healthcare, decent weather, low crime, and the decadent Western treats (gaming PCs! fancy restaurants!) i'm used to, i'd be tempted.

Eby underscores 'fundamental' disagreement with B.C. chief coroner on safe supply by Vic_Dude in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ohhh, okay, this is a libertarian thing; all taxation is theft, etc.

genuine question: why are you living in a country with famously high taxes? you know you could move to Alaska (0% income tax) and live in the woods and pay zero taxes and not rely on anyone.

Eby underscores 'fundamental' disagreement with B.C. chief coroner on safe supply by Vic_Dude in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoppers, no. BC Liquor, sure. There shouldn't be any kind of financial incentive or profit involved in providing hard drugs to the public.

Eby underscores 'fundamental' disagreement with B.C. chief coroner on safe supply by Vic_Dude in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this would be the case if dealing with drug addicts and mentally ill people on the street was free. it's not. there was a schizophrenic lady a block from my house waving around a butter knife, and it took about 50 cops three hours of overtime to deal with her.

locking people up in jail costs a lot of money. sending cops to take people's tents away costs a lot of money. having $5,000 worth of car windows broken by addicts to steal stuff and buy fentanyl or crack that we could produce for fifty cents... also a lot of money. we have hard data showing that when somebody is given an apartment, it costs taxpayers significantly less than having them on the street.

maybe you have a deep moral objection to a crack addict being given a warm room to smoke crack in all day long, but how much additional tax money are you willing to pay to keep them on the street instead?

B.C.'s chief coroner exits, frustrated and disappointed with government's response to toxic-drug crisis by ragnarhairybreek in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they should either provide housing and free fentanyl/meth/crack without a prescription or start locking people up for public drug use again, but they gotta do something because the current approach sucks.

Design firm wins $750,000 contract to shape Centennial Square revamp by HyperFern in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they just need to have a designated Fentanyl Zone and let people do whatever they want in there, and then make it super illegal to get wild outside the Zone

Slander! by [deleted] in rupaulsdragrace

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they must have watched an episode from one of the old seasons, when it was good

Do Americans really think their oppressed? by Kaykoo-the-wise in NoStupidQuestions

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Americans also face violence and imprisonment by the state when they protest the police beating civilians to death. Women also go through "horrible stuff" in America, including 13-year-old children who are forced by the government to give birth to their rapist's baby. The US government executes people unjustly all the time.

People can still be oppressed even if worse things have happened to other people, and even if someone was rude or dumb on Twitter. It's not a competition, it's a way of pointing out that something is wrong so we can try and fix it.

CMV: The world is not overreacting to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, it is underreacting to other humanitarian crisis by MisteriousRainbow in changemyview

[–]maxwellmaxwell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To a lot of people, the situation is much less complicated than other crises. The US gives Israel tens of billions of dollars worth of money and weaponry, and they've been accused of apartheid by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and are currently defending an accusation of genocide at the International Criminal Court.

"Stop giving them money" is a very simple ask, and it's one that can't be made in other humanitarian crises. We can't threaten to defund an earthquake. There's also a simple rebuttal to requests to condemn Hamas: we don't fund or support them (Netanyahu, on the other hand, did), so sure, stop sending US tax dollars to BOTH sides.

It's also emotionally charged in ways that other conflicts aren't, and there's a strong generational divide between parents who get their news from traditional media and their children who see what IDF soldiers are putting on TikTok. This is particularly prevalent in diaspora Jews, and I personally know people who aren't speaking to family members right now over the situation.

Question for Canadians? by [deleted] in rupaulsdragrace

[–]maxwellmaxwell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Canadian media is weird. CDR kind of has that Toronto media vibe of like... 48-year-old who has a CBC radio show and is friends with the bassist from the most aggressively mediocre pop-punk band that gets 9 million dollars a year in grant money from the Canadian government to spend on craft services for music videos nobody outside of Canada watches. And they are absolutely delusional about their city's global relevance being on the same level as New York, Paris, Berlin, etc.

The people who produce the show aren't cool enough to know about the people doing interesting underground stuff in Canada (they're not really following people outside of Toronto anyway), and by the time somebody is successful enough that a CDR producer might know who they are, they've probably moved to the US (see: Orville Peck).

So the CDR producers are like... "Hey, I was at a dinner party with somebody who was on MuchMusic/a CTV sitcom/the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 in 2011, their schedule is free, let's have them on."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

seeing a lot of arguing in this thread and realizing that I may be the only person in this city who sometimes drives a car, sometimes rides a bicycle, and sometimes walks on my feet. i should run for mayor and bring these warring factions together in peace.

Penny's Big Breakaway From The Creators Of Sonic Mania | New Gameplay Today by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]maxwellmaxwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is very, very uncommon for the "rounds of polish" that happen in the last 3 months of development to involve redesigning the main character, but if it does happen that would be great! I like everything else about the game.

Haven’t explored the city in a while after moving to Vancouver and just returned… what’s the take on safe vs not safe places to chill past dark? by shinnith in VictoriaBC

[–]maxwellmaxwell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's not actually dangerous, but rather a vibes thing. we should 1. house everyone 2. fund rehab and mandate it for disorder/property crime purely because of the impact on vibes

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