Crack Shack or Mansion? (Vancouver Edition)

Started by Malthus, April 14, 2012, 02:18:42 PM

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Malthus

April 14, 2012, 02:18:42 PM
A game to celebrate the overheated Canadian real estate market ... two years ago. Still just as bad if not worse today (Toronto is similarly crazy).

http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Habbaku

#1
April 14, 2012, 03:03:51 PM
 :(
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Legbiter

#2
April 14, 2012, 03:06:46 PM
Wait, so if it can withstand rain it's automatically worth a mil in Vancouver?

Got 4 out of 16 correct, so a monkey would be better at this than me.
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Neil

#3
April 14, 2012, 03:11:49 PM
The reason that you'd be bad at this is that, unlike a monkey, you'd attempt to use reason.  Vancouverites are incapable of reason, and so their doings are difficult to decipher for rational beings.
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#4
April 14, 2012, 03:24:35 PM
10/16  :cool:

Some insane prices there. Londonesque in their insanity, though some of the dumps appeared to have a large lot.

Zoupa

#5
April 14, 2012, 03:33:35 PM
 :lol:

That was fun. I was looking to relocate to Vancouver (maybe) last year.

They wanted half a mil for a shitty, small condo not even downtown. So that, the FREAKING INCESSANT RAIN, and the fact relocation-girl was probably not right in the head made me stay put.  :)

alfred russel

#6
April 14, 2012, 03:45:32 PM
In British Columbia there are crack houses, meth houses, heroin houses, and marijuana plantations. Every type of abode fits into one of these categories, thus identifying the crack houses is more challenging.
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Tonitrus

#7
April 14, 2012, 04:49:11 PM
This thread is spoiling the view of Canada as paradise on Earth.  :(

Malthus

#8
April 14, 2012, 05:35:28 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on April 14, 2012, 04:49:11 PM
This thread is spoiling the view of Canada as paradise on Earth.  :(

Somebody held that view?

Try february in Toronto ...  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

HVC

#9
April 14, 2012, 08:09:00 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 14, 2012, 05:35:28 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on April 14, 2012, 04:49:11 PM
This thread is spoiling the view of Canada as paradise on Earth.  :(

Somebody held that view?

Try february in Toronto ...  ;)
How about summer? Gotta love that raw  Sewage smell around front street :P
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Razgovory

#10
April 14, 2012, 08:23:37 PM
Hey I was born by in crack house?  It was later bought by a hospital and used to store medical waste.  Then it got torn down.  Now the neighborhood has an epidemic of bald children.
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katmai

#11
April 14, 2012, 10:47:36 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on April 14, 2012, 03:33:35 PM
So that, the FREAKING INCESSANT RAIN,

:huh:

QuoteVancouver averages 166 days per year with measurable precipitation, and 289 days with measurable sunshine
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Eddie Teach

#12
April 14, 2012, 11:19:09 PM
Rain every other day is a lot more than most people are used to.
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crazy canuck

#13
April 15, 2012, 09:54:57 AM
The worst part of living in Vancouver is indeed the rain - when it does rain. On the other 289 days it is paradise on earth.

The worst parts of living in most other cities are things which are not so infrequent.

Malthus

#14
April 15, 2012, 09:57:37 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 15, 2012, 09:54:57 AM
The worst part of living in Vancouver is indeed the rain - when it does rain.

Well that, and the real estate market.  :D

But yeah, part of why the market is so crazy is because Vancouver is widely seen as a good place to live ... here's hoping that the endless articles about how we are in an unsustainable bubble about to crash and burn prove as inaccurate this year as they have proven the last decade or so.  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius
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