It's a mess that most southern BC residents were well aware of. The Liberals deserve the lions share of the blame but the feds and cities weren't much help either. One wonders whether it was due to monumental incompetence or politicians unwilling to do anything that might affect their own property values. Probably both with the possibility of some plain old corruption thrown in.
Our oldest grandson is in second year engineering at UBC and has been offered a CO-OP job in Edmonton which it looks like he will take. I think him getting out of the lower mainland and seeing what the rest of the country has to offer might be the best thing that could happen to him. We moved back to BC long before the housing market went nuts but Edmonton was very good to us when we lived there during the seventies.
Now our new Premier has decided to start a war with Alberta and the rest of Canada. BC politics. Is BC the Quebec of the West?
I agree that kids should spread their wings a bit before deciding where to settle. I lived in several places in BC, but always wanted to live in the Lower Mainland; I was lucky enough to get into a reasonably priced place in the suburbs before the prices skyrocketed and so am relatively well positioned, despite a lower-than-middle-class income level.
It's unclear to me why we're blaming Horgan for a war; Notley decided to go after our wine industry, which hurts her province as much as it hurts ours. I don't have an issue with a pipeline personally, as long as there is stringent quality control and an enforced obligation that the company pay for clean up of any spills, but if Horgan/Weaver were elected on a Green platform, it's what the people of BC chose, eh? We're allowed to do that. Was Notley elected to hinder trade between the provinces?
And, perhaps Albertans are unaware of the serious ill-effects of the oil industry, and the way in which oil companies have decimated the landscape and then decamped-even prior to the oil industry slump-leaving clean up and remediation to the taxpayer. It is certainly an aspect that I have rarely seen publicized. Another low profile side-effect is that people who live near tar sands are physically ill; I only orginally heard about it because a friend is a mortgage broker and was trying to sell the house of a woman who was dying due to her exposure; not surprisingly, the house was hard to sell.
Perhaps Notley is simply virtue-signalling?