[beachstartup]

capitalism sure does feel great when you're winning. but when someone shows up with more money, all of a sudden it starts feeling very unfair.

and nothing will be done about it because the powerful locals who make the laws are the ones getting rich (richer, really) selling all of the real estate to the foreigners.

and all of the anger will be misdirected at the chinese, allowing the process to continue indefinitely.

[Fluid_Mechanics]

Pointing out how foreign nationals are buying up houses in the Greater Vancouver Area and feeding our local housing bubble is "slightly racist"?

Edit: Nevermind, your post seems to have completely changed. I suppose you're just afraid this will translate into Xenophobia against [presumably] people like you.

[beachstartup]

i was in the middle of editing my comment when you replied.

how is this any different than rich white dot com yuppies pushing lifelong latino or black residents out of San Francisco? am i supposed to feel sad for them, or sad for the white people getting pushed out of vancouver by rich asian people?

the answer is i don't really feel sad for either group. i'm sure it's sad if you're the one being pushed, but hey, apparently it happens to everyone.

[danieltillett]

I actually do feel sad for all groups being pushed out of their home, but as you rightly point out this is part of life. What is different about Vancouver is people are being pushed out of their homes and nobody is moving in. Seems a great waste of a beautiful location.

[jarek]

> Seems a great waste of a beautiful location.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One might inquire what the First Nations think about white man's towers of glass and Vancouver Specials in what used to be beautiful temperate rainforest...

[danieltillett]

Vancouver for all its development is still a beautiful place.

[jarek]

Yeah but it's hard to say it wasn't a waste of a beautiful location plopping down crap like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jp... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotia_Tower_Vancouver_20... and hectares of Specials in the 1970s ... and I actually like good brutalism, modernism, and international style, can't imagine what people who don't like them at all must think