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Good question. As I said in the response to a comment on my initial, we thought it was the peak when we bought. That may seem crazy now but people have been saying Vancouver was at a peak since the mid 2000s. So it was conceivable that it could have gone down. We knew it was a possibility.

It is hard to say though. You don't really know someone until you go through hardship together. My sense from knowing my friends would be yes we would be friends but I just can't say. We did go through some things in that time on personal fronts but it wasn't financial. Financial things can be different than others.

Our main focus was having a place of our own. We had the five year plan but as I said, I liked living where we were and with our friends. If it turned into a ten year plan or more, that would have been fine with me.

I think if we all kept our jobs, etc, things would be fine. If someone couldn't pay their side of the mortgage or something, that would have been more detrimental. Or if we had some sort of fight and were mid-renovation and had to try to finish the renovation not getting along or try to sell a half renovated house. Those things would have been pretty detrimental.