Originally posted by Focus:

Buying a house, in America is officially a pipe dream only a few can achieve.

Rent is getting out of control.

So, when millions of people become homeless...What then?

Stop paying, and influence everyone to stop. Everyone pays taxes and utilities together in a hivemind frenzy, how about you stop paying

We have a thing called democracy but everyone traded it in for a red hat.

Originally posted by Beltneck:

*Laughs in Canadian rent*

$1.3 million for a 120 square foot condo, $2200/month for a rat infested 1 bedroom, wages are about 30-40% lower, groceries and telecom are almost double.

If you can't succeed in the United States, thats just natural selection. Especially with all the jobs that just opened up from kicking the illegals out.

All those minimum wage jobs?

My wife and I are saving for a home as we speak. We'll have around 100k when it's all said and done and we'll have a few choices.

Unlike Canada, a sudden, unplanned medical expense can ruin savings. Must be nice.

https://youtu.be/kcsNbQRU5TI?si=W0PSHZxYH3nSckBP

They earned being homeless.

People get angry when some of us post anything other than brain rot. People get angry when some of us say that people can't be online 24/7 and not have a job.

That's their fault.

So when they are on the streets with their cardboard signs and those sad eyes and the dirt all over them, many of us will gladly blow right by them on our way to somewhere nice.

You only get what you give.

It seems like every country is in some crisis.
Realtors always try to scam from you as much money as possible. It's everywhere like that, even here.

Originally posted by Focus:

My wife and I are saving for a home as we speak. We'll have around 100k when it's all said and done and we'll have a few choices.

Unlike Canada, a sudden, unplanned medical expense can ruin savings. Must be nice.

Why leave Canada if that's how you feel?

Originally posted by Wild Child:

Originally posted by Focus:

My wife and I are saving for a home as we speak. We'll have around 100k when it's all said and done and we'll have a few choices.

Unlike Canada, a sudden, unplanned medical expense can ruin savings. Must be nice.

Why leave Canada if that's how you feel?

"Must be nice" implies (I thought) that we don't live there and our savings could be ruined at any time.

I was lucky to have bought my house a while before prices went nuts I bought a 5 bedroom house for 165K... it was f**ing expensive then, but is now worth 650K

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Originally posted by robilar5500:

All those minimum wage jobs?

Minimum wage is essentially higher in the US. Because cost of living is less than half that of Canada's.

Again, if you can't succeed - you're not trying.

Originally posted by Focus:

My wife and I are saving for a home as we speak. We'll have around 100k when it's all said and done and we'll have a few choices.

Unlike Canada, a sudden, unplanned medical expense can ruin savings. Must be nice.

Yeah, where you have a 7 year wait for procedures that can bet done in 3 months literally anywhere else in the world; and 30+ hour ER wait times that leave more and more people dying every day.

It depends a lot on the type of procedure, urgency, province, and hospital capacity, but here are some recent benchmarks / averages in Canada:

Across 12 medical specialties, physicians reported a median wait time of ~ 30 weeks from GP referral to treatment in 2024.
Fraser Institute


For specialist referrals in general, the national median is about 78 days (≈ 11 weeks).
PMC

For priority procedures (like joint replacement, cataract surgery, cancer surgery), median waits vary — many are measured in weeks to months depending on the procedure.


Emergency department visits: about half of non-urgent cases are resolved in < 2.6 hours; 90% are done within ~ 7.6 hours.

You're either lying or being fed false information.

Anecdotal evidence does not supersede the vast quantities of data. There's exceptions in anything. Averages.

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Originally posted by Focus:

Anecdotal evidence does not supersede the vast quantities of data. There's exceptions in anything. Averages.

Stats Canada doesn't include data from native reservations either. So that makes all the numbers look better, for everything from crime rates, life expectancy, employment, and social spending.

I wouldn't trust their 'vast quantities' of data when they exclude hundreds of counties, and tens of thousands of people, from their tally.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory has nabbed another. There may be flaws but I doubt they're as severe as is claimed by you.

Originally posted by Kobs:

I was lucky to have bought my house a while before prices went nuts I bought a 5 bedroom house for 165K... it was f**ing expensive then, but is now worth 650K

Well done!

Originally posted by Apollo702:

They earned being homeless.

People get angry when some of us post anything other than brain rot. People get angry when some of us say that people can't be online 24/7 and not have a job.

That's their fault.

So when they are on the streets with their cardboard signs and those sad eyes and the dirt all over them, many of us will gladly blow right by them on our way to somewhere nice.

You only get what you give.

The just world fallacy of exploitative capitalism.

The belief that money equals virtue and poverty is a moral failing of character.

The real immorality is allowing people to suffer in a world with enough resources for everyone.