The Disillusioned – “I tell all the young co-op students that come and work at my office to leave this city if they want to make something of their life.”

Posted on 11 June 2011 | 8 Comments

Anonymous at vancouvercondo.info June 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am– “Vancouver sucks, i tell all the young co- op students that come and work at my office to leave this city if they want to make something of their life. Unless you’re a civil servant, a union slob, or in sales… Vancouver has nothing to offer. After listening to me they all agree… Most have moved.”

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8 responses to “The Disillusioned – “I tell all the young co-op students that come and work at my office to leave this city if they want to make something of their life.””

Fred | 11 June 2011 at 7:39 am | Reply

you dont make it, it does not mean everyone else either.
Ralph Kramden | 11 June 2011 at 9:19 am | Reply

The new office is up and running and we love Halifax. Sold all our RE at top dollar – closed our business and moved east. Great job applicants and our above line costs are more sane.
RE on South Shore is still expensive – so we are renting a home in HFX and love it.
We will never come back to the sinkhole of YVR and while I am at it – check the US Bond market – holy cow – think the US will keep printing and kill the Stock Market.
Going to be very rocky – oh, and no one gives a darn about the Canucks. So refreshing.
BC – good luck and best to you all – sad to leave? No – relieved we won’t see the mess that has arrived – that will destroy so many folks.
Leverage is great on the way up – and will eat you for lunch as it is moving now.
- Michael | 11 June 2011 at 5:57 pm | Reply
  
  I am curious to see how those who are currently gloating over their fortune and belittling everybody who isn’t “on the train” will act once the fortunes are reversed.
Big E | 11 June 2011 at 1:15 pm | Reply

wow, you sound like a great mentor. maybe you should tell them not to work with bitter deadbeats instead.
- Michael | 11 June 2011 at 5:56 pm | Reply
  
  Might be hard to fanthom for all the Vancouver cheerleaders, but the fact remains that at this point in time if you want to further your career Vancouver is worst place in Canada most likely.
  
  This is also what I am mulling. I do work remote, I could pick up today and move east and keep my job. For me it comes down to the question on what are priorities for me and right now the current one I can do here or in Toronto or Montreal without much of a difference.
  
  But once that’s done? I may just do the same not because I want to buy a house (I have no interest in buying anything in a city) but rather because your attitude is pretty common and it keeps pissing me off on a daily basis.
  
  And before you ask, yes, there is a part of me who can’t wait to see this house of card come crashing down just so that some people learn a bit of humility in this town.
Fred | 11 June 2011 at 3:46 pm | Reply

bye bye. dont break your back to shovel the snow in the next few months!
does the Canucks care if you give a darn, not a bit. soon you will be complaining that Halifax is unaffordable too.
- Aldus Huxtable | 12 June 2011 at 6:58 pm | Reply
  
  I’m pretty sure he’ll be able to afford a beautiful new snowblower factoring in his savings leaving Vancouver.
  - Derp Derp | 12 June 2011 at 7:56 pm |
    
    i love that people think van is the only hospitable place in the country. if enough people keep thinking that, one day it surely will be the least hospitable!
    
    lol.. incipient los angeles indeed