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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ya, I get you don't give a ####, that's been made abundantly clear. The town is already yours. Congrats, you made it what you want. Go enjoy it and tell everyone else to #### off, because you get to you use it the way you want, and if anyone tries to tell you different you will happily tell them they are wrong. It's like the ultimate FYGM. Arrogance extraordinaire. It's tough to care anymore, having seen all that made it a wonderful place to grow up turned into a place for weekenders to treat locals like ####. But that's the way the world goes. The world is ####. You care not for the loses your gains mean.
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You have it 100% backwards. You are projecting.
You think the town is
yours. You don't want other people.
You are telling people to #### off because you want it the way you want it.
I, on the other hand, want it to expand so people who want to live there can. I'm also supportive of completely banning all Air BnBs. That should lower the cost of real estate as more inventory is opened up. The value of my place will go down - that's fine. I don't like that it is exclusionary and too many people are priced out. I'm content with taking a personal financial hit if it means more people get to enjoy what I enjoy. There is literally zero FYGM in my attitude. It's all on the Canmore side. My attitude is let's build more to accommodate those who want to live there. I want people to be able to enjoy. I have no right to exclude others (nor do born and raised Canmorites, as though that gives them more right to the area than anybody else).
Annnnd it's locals who treat "weekenders" like ####. See, even that's a belittling name. It's Canmore people's FYGM's version of calling us illegals. You literally have a derogatory name for other people to slot them beneath you, just like MAGAs do to Mexicans.
Everything you said about the people who have vacation homes there is a projection of the Canmoreite attitude. I'm shocked you can't see it. It's glaringly obvious.
How - on god's green earth - is it a reasonable expectation to think Canmore could somehow freeze in time around 1996 and not change? The gall to think you should be able to wall up a town in
my province in
my country to prevent
my family from enjoying what you already have. #### that.
Do you think the people in Invermere should be able to treat vacation-home owners there with any less kindness or respect than people who live there full time? Is this just a value of yours that people with a second property don't deserve to be members of a community in the way they choose to participate? Do full-time residents get to dictate what a community means to them and impose that view - which, of course, is impossible for somebody who doesn't live there full time to accommodate? Or should people be allowed to interact with their home(s) however they like (within the bounds of rules/respect/laws)?
Has it escaped your notice that Canmore would just basically implode without Calgary money? What is the industry there? Tourism. You want Canmore to be dumpy staff residences and hotels? Sounds like a great place. Or, is it better for a bunch of people to be air dropping in millions of dollars to that community while not using the services they're paying for? You think elevation place is there without Calgary money? That hospital? The beautiful infrastructure?
Canmore people - if they like the town - should thank those of us who came along and were like, 'hey Einsteins...maybe stop dumping coal tailings into the river, let's stop blowing up the sides of mountains and cut out the asinine mining before we have another Frank Slide on our hands.'
And also, if you want Canmore to go back to its roots, I'm in. Let's find the people who profiteered off decimating the environment there (likely through their decedents now), scoop that money back and raze the town and get it back to pristine in anticipation of handing it back to the first nations. Surely you wouldn't think the clock starts at 1978 or whatever date works well for your friends and family. If we're doing this, let's get it back to its original owners in its original condition.
I'm so sick of the hypocrites in Canmore that I would write off my expensive condo and take a 100% loss just to see Canmore people have to put their money where their mouth is. It's no more yours than it is mine and no more mine than it is yours. If anybody is going to get birthright dibs on this place, it's our indigenous communities. I swear on my mom's grave if you can convince Canmore residents to get behind that - which is consistent with what they're saying about newcomers ruining the place unless they're all hypocrites and truly do have a FYGM attitude - I will sign over my deed and help tear it to the ground. Either you accept this place is evolving and changing like every other place on planet earth or you believe people shouldn't be allowed to come and be complicit in its evolution. If we're going with plan B, though, we're taking it all the way back to nature...not just to magical 1997 that benefits you and your buddies. That would be preposterous.