Crack Shack or Mansion? (Vancouver Edition)

[Malthus]

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/

[Habbaku]

 

[Legbiter]

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.

[Neil]

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.

[Richard Hakluyt]

10/16 

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

[Zoupa]

 

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]

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.

[Tonitrus]

This thread is spoiling the view of Canada as paradise on Earth. 

[Malthus]

This thread is spoiling the view of Canada as paradise on Earth. 

Somebody held that view?

Try february in Toronto ... 

[HVC]

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

[Razgovory]

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.

[katmai]

So that, the FREAKING INCESSANT RAIN,

Vancouver averages 166 days per year with measurable precipitation, and 289 days with measurable sunshine

[Eddie Teach]

Rain every other day is a lot more than most people are used to.

[crazy canuck]

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]

The worst part of living in Vancouver is indeed the rain - when it does rain.

Well that, and the real estate market. 

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.