#4071587 - 01/30/15 05:45 AM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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Not surprised about Toronto. Its a beautiful city. Very clean, friendly and nice.
I am surprised New York even made the list at all. Its expensive, dirty and people are not friendly. I know, that because I lived in it my whole life and Im trying to get out of it.
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#4071595 - 01/30/15 07:05 AM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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#4071622 - 01/30/15 10:31 AM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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It wasn't due to people coming here to Vancouver. It was due to our government's idiotic policy of allowing unrestricted foreign access to the real estate market. Now we've got Chinese money flooding in to buy housing because the Chinese see buying land here as a safe investment as they can get their savings away from the Chinese government and into a tangible asset in a place that still has the Rule of Law. End result? Ridiculously over-priced housing market with absentee landlords so we have high rises in Yaletown that have zero percent occupancy on paper but 75% of the units are empty. Parts of Kerrisdale and Kits that used to have a vibrant, welcoming vibe to them where neighbourhood block parties on summer weekends were the norm are now practically ghost towns as the old character homes are bulldozed in favour of lot filler mega-houses that sit empty. Crime's up out in the eastern part of Metro Van in places like Surrey and PoCo as the working classes find that they're spending more and more of their income on housing, taxes, and transports but the governments don't care. The province is thrilled to have foreign money coming in. The municipalities in MV love the property taxes they get to charge on the inflated land valuations and, in areas like Kerrisdale, they don't have to provide as many services due to the large number of empty dwellings.
They really should put in a rule requiring owners to be residents at least 6 months plus a day each year or require them to open their property up for rental. Never happen though.
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#4071668 - 01/30/15 02:18 PM
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.
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#4071669 - 01/30/15 02:21 PM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.
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#4071673 - 01/30/15 02:30 PM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched. And New York. Man if those are some of the world's best cities then they're all basically Gotham hell holes.
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#4071683 - 01/30/15 02:48 PM
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Toronto doesn't have the nickname of Fogtown for no reason, and it not because of a certain football game.
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#4071704 - 01/30/15 03:23 PM
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Yeah, really. And what about Scarecrow's brain?
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#4071712 - 01/30/15 03:46 PM
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched. exactly, that was my first thoughts... I wouldn't live in any of those cities.
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#4071722 - 01/30/15 03:59 PM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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Yeah it looks like the study just focused on the biggest cities for each country and compared them.
Still Toronto and Montreal are two great cities I've never been to but hope to visit sometime, heard nothing but good things about them from people who've been there (other than the Rob Ford circus).
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#4071740 - 01/30/15 04:20 PM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched. Three US Liberal #%&*$# holes that aren't fit to live in...two of the three I wouldn't visit after dark without Kevlar.
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#4071787 - 01/30/15 05:59 PM
Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched. Three US Liberal #%&*$# holes that aren't fit to live in...two of the three I wouldn't visit after dark without Kevlar. You're going to get the thread moved...
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