It’s like the show on TV “I’m 26, I am a cook in a fast food restaurant, my wife is 25 and a part time soap maker at home, we are looking for a house in Parkdale Toronto, our budget is 1.5 million” WTF?

I left Montréal, cannot afford a decent house there, now in suburbia. I have no clue how people in Toronto or worst, Vancouver, can manage to buy condo/house at 1 or 2 millions$ ?!?

I’ll be dead in 2078 when it will be announced for the 134th time, at the cost of 860 billions$

I’ll tell you then

I understand it could make sense for 4G/5G telecom as transmit towers can be saturated etc if people download terabytes and terabytes every day. But for at home cable? having a cap makes no sense really…

I think it happened in time before, but when you have a lot of young people doing nothing like this, you better control them to avoid a general backlash/revolution. Being China, enrolling them in their army and invading a country/going to war, will keep them busy. It’s unfortunate, but it’s CCP.

Canadian? then https://forums.redflagdeals.com/costco-hisense-2022-2023-2024-4k-43-100-tv-model-sale-clearance-298-2629232/

With your budget, take the 75U78N at Costco, 2yr warranty + you can extend to 6yr for 150$ I think.

Hisense especially the 78N (and 88N) have absolutely beautiful stunning picture, maybe one of the best for the buck, check the review https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/hisense/u7n-u7-u75n it handles DolbyVision, HDR, 144Hz, etc

It does not use a shitty OS like roku nor ads like Samsung. You may need to have it plugged on internet for 1st boot and FW update, but after this you can obviously disconnect it, plug your HDMI device and that’s it, it will act as a dumb monitor.

Problem is mostly housing. When people earn 2000$/month and rent is 2000$/month, there’s a problem. In great Montreal, pre-covid, you had 1bd appartment for 500$ sometimes less, now it’s 1200+$

I don’t know what will happen with this, and the hundreds of thousands new people coming each and every years need housing too, and schools, and healthcare. Of course millionnaires politicians don’t give a shit.

IIRC years ago Tim Hortons stop buying the coffee beans that was good, to buy cheap disgusting ones. And McDonalds then started to buy the good one, so the McDo coffee is what was the good old Tim ones.

I prefer McDo cofffee than Tim. I rarely go to Tim, maybe once a year.

Imagine in Canada, where real news media like TV, newspaper, etc, cannot be used by Meta (FB, IG, etc). So in a Canadian facebook feed, you only have conspiracy and right-wing false info, that’s it. For the people who took their info from FB, they are flooded by fake/alarming news.

In the last 10 years maybe, yes, lots of new condo towers downtown! Unfortunately Montréal now has a lot of homeless people, drugs, gunshots, dirty places, etc :-(

Same in Montréal, maybe thousands of brand new condo, small, and too expensive.

you shout in COBOL ;-)

I learnt COBOL (I’m old) it’s a very easy language, you basically talk, for instance to do c=a*b you write:

MULTIPLY A TO B GIVING C

and everything is tabbed, but in a good editor like emacs, it’s done automatically pretty well.

It’s about everywhere, also in USA, when a newly elected official having a net worth of nothing significant, earn, let’s say, 200k per year, but after 5 years has a net worth of 10 millions ?!?

In Canada it’s tap to pay for ~8 years now, never saw a QR code to pay. However when I go in USA, every stores is tap to pay, except one, there’s one store in USA where there is no tap, it’s Walmart, inconcevable.

I know, Maxi is part of Loblaws as I wrote, but unfortunately it is the cheapest grocery in QC, but I go more and more at SuperC now.

Loblaws branded stores disappeared from QC years ago. In Québec, Métro is pretty expensive, like IGA or Provigo. The cheapest groceries are Maxi (yeah, it’s Loblaws group) and SuperC (Metro group). But for me, all fruits/vegetable comes from local greengrocers, who also sell various ham/cold cuts and lot of cheese, sometimes for 50% of the price of groceries, and it’s fresh cut. Else for some bulks there’s bulk barn, and Costco, or sometimes even Amazon, a family box size cereal is $10.99 at IGA and the same one is $5.49 on Amazon.

Boycot Loblaws, I went to Maxi, they have way better prices!

/s

They are building thousands of condo at 1M$ and have a pikachu face when they realize it’s hard to sell?

I have bought hundreds of stuff on AE, it’s ok, especially for stuff that are less than $10 that local sellers sell for like $40 for the exact same thing. I got some items in less than a week in Caanda.

It is funny because in something like 30 years, it will be children that will provide financially to their 80-90yo parents

In my part of QC, the only “Loblaws” around me is a Maxi, it’s pretty cheap certainly one of the most affordable groceries here. But I can go to a nearby SuperC just to boycott Galen.

Wearing a visible religious symbol while working for the public sector

This has nothing to do with conservatism, it’s about secularism, go to Turkey you’ll see the same thing, France too, it does not come from conservatives.

yeah, it’s a feature required by CCP

It’s a well known trick in QC to not buy a car from Ontario from sketchy dealers, as those scummy dealers will back the odometer, and there is no way to know it.

Not a lot you can do, install multiple tracking system like Tag, then one of your own (aliexpress has cheap GPS tracer, you need to put a sim card in it with a 10$ SMS plan or something), an apple tag, a kill switch well hidden, and a club steering wheel lock, you can also put a OBD2 secured cap to annoy thieves a few minutes more.

But if your car is a truck or RAV4 or Tacoma or Tahoe etc, it will be stolen, if you are lucky they will find it before it goes in Montreal port and you will get it back, then after 3 or 4 times your insurer will drop you, or thieves will successfully steal it.

Police/Government do about nothing, a car is stolen every 5 minutes.

I saw some middle class people crying because for their retreat they are selling their plex 1 million and will only have 972’000$ because of the new tax and their retreat is fucked up and their world is crumbling…

Absolutely, it’s almost impossible to buy a house. How can people have a 6k/month mortgage is beyond me

Yeah, what is middle-class really now? Even if in a couple you own 100k, it’s not much nowadays especially in Vancouver/Toronto , with houses at 1M…

100k is the new 50k of before. In Québec, teachers or nurses own 100k+, policemen/firefighters too, half of municipal employees are at 100k+, provincial/federal employees 100k+, etc

And violence, drugs, firearms, car thieves, garbage, etc. Poor Canada :-(

“first-time homebuyers” ?!? Z/Alpha will never be able to buy something, when you earn 2000$/month and rent is 2000$/month, you cannot even live.

Superb, really!

Absolutely, I started computers in 1981, for me 1K is 1024 bytes and will always be. 1000 bytes is a scam

Yep, I’m an immigrant, I have nothing against them of course, but Canada cannot sustain 500k-1m new immigrants per year, it’s insane

Instead of buying 4L (they are in 3 bags) of milk for $7, you will need to buy 2x 2L tetrapak at $5 each.

It’s just for money that they are ending bags.

I absolutely hate it for medias like music or movies. Back in the time, you had your CD and DVD/BD in physical format. Now there’s music you about cannot buy to own. Same for old movies, you cannot find them physically, only rent them on youtube for instance.

Situation is horrible in Montréal and elsewhere in the province. There is something like 13’000 airbnb in Montreal, most of them illegal, and a lot of people are struggling to find a place to rent, price double/triple for some of them. When you had an appt at $685, are evicted, and the equiv appt is now for rent at $1600, what are you going to do?

Well, when you buy a house in a floodable area, you are taking a risk, I understand some companies don’t want to touch that…

win win :)

When I say to my friends/colleagues that I never used a uber/lyft or airbnb/vrbo or ubereats/doordash/whatever, they look at me as if I was an alien…

I just take taxi, go to hotels (using the owner site, never a 3rd party), and do groceries and cook at home.

Am I so out of touch or young people are wrong? :)