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blender · 10-27-2023, 07:01 PM

I lived in Canmore from 2000-03. It changed a lot even during that short time, but it was a tiny fraction of what it is now.

I was working construction of course and we were building a lavish custom home for a wealthy software entrepreneur from Philadelphia. He was building a vacation home for him and his wife as a surprise. If it turned out she didn't like it, no big deal. The place was a million bucks just to build, which would be 2-3m now, easy. I asked him about the cost and if it was any kind of a consideration and he told me he searched every mountain town on the east slope of the rockies from Nevada north and Canmore was the cheapest by far.

It's all relative, and I suspect that same factor may hold true today. There will always be folks with that kind of disposable income--at least until everything falls apart and we're all ####ed--and places like Canmore will get developed. It's quite unfortunate for the people who can't afford to keep up with the costs that invariably are driven up, but inequality is an inherent reality of our society. It is literally built in, so what can really be done?

10-27-2023, 07:01 PM	#216
blender First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Kamloops Exp:	I lived in Canmore from 2000-03. It changed a lot even during that short time, but it was a tiny fraction of what it is now. I was working construction of course and we were building a lavish custom home for a wealthy software entrepreneur from Philadelphia. He was building a vacation home for him and his wife as a surprise. If it turned out she didn't like it, no big deal. The place was a million bucks just to build, which would be 2-3m now, easy. I asked him about the cost and if it was any kind of a consideration and he told me he searched every mountain town on the east slope of the rockies from Nevada north and Canmore was the cheapest by far. It's all relative, and I suspect that same factor may hold true today. There will always be folks with that kind of disposable income--at least until everything falls apart and we're all ####ed--and places like Canmore will get developed. It's quite unfortunate for the people who can't afford to keep up with the costs that invariably are driven up, but inequality is an inherent reality of our society. It is literally built in, so what can really be done? Last edited by blender; 10-27-2023 at 07:05 PM.