Saw a comparison today that a house on the US side of the border is listed at $190k. 17km away on the Canadian side a similar house is $670k.
We are squeezing out any possibility of entering the housing market unless you are insanely rich. Our politicians are doing exactly nothing about it.
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My parents are having a super hard time with theirs, top end market in Winnipeg has fallen out a bit, but also kind of makes sense. Nowhere near the $ here as where you are.
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clovis8
June 18, 2023, 10:30pm
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Parents trying to buy or sell?
It doesnât seem that complicated. Itâs just weird. Hit the ball, run back and forth, do it until you get out.
The problem might be that no one wants to live in Winnipeg.
clovis8
June 18, 2023, 10:58pm
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Winnipeg is super nice. Also location of one of my favourite films.
My Winnipeg is a 2007 Canadian film directed and written by Guy Maddin with dialogue by George Toles. Described by Maddin as a "docu-fantasia", that melds "personal history, civic tragedy, and mystical hypothesizing", the film is a surrealist mockumentary about Winnipeg, Maddin's home town. A New York Times article described the film's unconventional take on the documentary style by noting that it "skates along an icy edge between dreams and lucidity, fact and fiction, cinema and psychother My Wi...
clovis8:
Winnipeg is super nice
Let me feel your forehead
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clovis8
June 18, 2023, 11:02pm
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Iâm fine. Itâs a beautiful city.
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Its name means Muddy Water, and its average January high is 11 Freedom Units (negative 11 swishy units)
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clovis8
June 18, 2023, 11:07pm
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I will concede itâs a brutal place in winter.
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Which part of the border? Iâm thinking not BC/WA because both prices way way way too low
Also @clovis8 which province are you in, again? Alberta, or do you just visit there a lot for business/poker
clovis8
June 18, 2023, 11:10pm
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Yep, Calgary Alberta.
Iâve just been a number of times for various reasons.
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Think Iâll go out to Alberta
Weatherâs good there in the fall
I got some friends that I can go to workinâ for
Still I wish youâd change your mind
If I asked you one more time
But weâve been through that a hundred times or more
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clovis8
June 18, 2023, 11:16pm
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Been lucky enough to see him twice in concert. He is awesome.
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clovis8
June 18, 2023, 11:18pm
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Years ago my brother was head of food and beverage at the Hyatt here and one night his head server came to get an ok because âtwo sort of homeless looking guysâ ordered a very expensive bottle of booze.
My brother took a look and laughed his ass off.
It was Neil Young with Bruce Springsteen.
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Sell. Listed at 850, already bought a condo and want it to move so have cut substantially.
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clovis8
June 18, 2023, 11:24pm
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Lol I didnât even realize it was a cover till I just Googled it. I was thinking it was a Neil Young song. Lol me.
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