“We dare not dream to buy a home in Vancouver. We feel shame to be poor and working poor.”

This brief yet poignant personal story about the feeling of being left behind by this RE bubble. From ‘Mom in Vancouver’ at greaterfool.ca on Nov 07, 2009 at 1.48 am -

“We dare not dream to buy a home in Vancouver, actually we can not afford anything with a yard for a kid to play in, in Surrey, or Maple Ridge, although I worked for several years as a full time programmer. We feel shame to be poor and working poor.”