Angry UBC condo owners protest new Hospice

[FlamesAddiction]

Somebody should remind them that there is a whole continent called Asia where Asian superstitions and cultural norms are welcome.

[VladtheImpaler]

My wife, she is scared of men with chocolate face, there won't be any around here?

[Muta]

John Wayne sums it up nicely:

"Dying ain't much of a living, boy."

Very true, John. Who knew you'd have great real estate advice for those Gen Y'ers only decades later.

[mykalberta]

Does a Hospice have to be rezoned to be built or can it be built on normally zoned Residential and or Commercial property? If it needs to be rezoned then they have every right to be upset. If zoning was already in place then tough luck, when I was purchasing my condo once of the things the relator told me to check is the zoning around the condo for things like possible new drop in locations, ROWs etc.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Crazy Bacon Legs

Hmmm... I live just around the corner from there. Methinks I will be contacting the Board of Governors to ask them to build the hospice twice as large. We need more Yang around here. The Yin is starting to stink up the place.

In all seriousness though, I will be contacting the BoG and letting them know not to listen to these morons, however. I can't think of a nasty enough word to describe these selfish... people. Try to stop a place from being built where people can live out their last few days in relative comfort because you're scared of ghosts? I'm ashamed to be a member of the same species.

Stand outside their protest with a sign that says "I hope the ghosts haunt your over priced condos".

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by Burninator

A co-worker was telling me that friends of hers who had recently purchases a brand new home would not let her other friends in for 4-6 months because they had a relative recently die.

I don't know about 4-6 months, but it's the cultural norm for me to not let anyone in my house for at least a month after someone in their family died. Similarly, I am not supposed to go to anyone's house for that same amount of time if someone in my family died. I'm not particularly superstitious, but it keeps my parents happy, so I abide by it.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

If this is an established neighbourhood, the odds are good that someone has died in a nearby building at some point in the past already. Point that fact out to them and tell them to SELL SELL SELL at low prices just to get out of that cursed area!

Crazy thing is they live close to the hospital, GHOSTS AND SPIRITS GALORE!

[CaptainCrunch]

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Considering the fellow I articled for was offered ~$25K (I believe - maybe more) for his phone number, which ended in 8888, I take Chinese superstitions at face value.

I know it sounds weird to some of the people here, but business people in HK literally pay millions of dollars to people to check the Feng Sui in their buildings, so yes we Chino's take superstitions pretty seriously.

With that said though, like one poster mentioned, if this was already planned for and the residents were aware of it, then tough luck to you guys. If not, then I guess I don't see any difference between these people protesting this and NIMBYs here protesting about not having a detox clinic near their house. NIMBYs still annoy the heck out of me though.

[Thor]

Detox clinic is like a Hospice?

[troutman]

http://www.skepdic.com/fengshui.html

Feng shui has become a kind of architectural acupuncture: wizards and magi insert themselves into buildings or landscapes and use their metaphysical sensors to detect the flow of good and bad "energy." These masters for hire declare where bathrooms should go, which way doorways should face, where mirrors should hang, which room needs green plants and which one needs red flowers, which direction the head of the bed should face, etc. They decide these things on the basis of their feel for the flow of chi, electromagnetic fields, or whatever other form of energy the client will worry about.

[Crazy Bacon Legs]

Originally Posted by Thor

Detox clinic is like a Hospice?

Yeah, I can't tell you the number of times that elderly cancer patients have accosted me on the street to beg for change. And they're always having rowdy parties that keep me awake all night. I hope the fine folks looking to block the hospice succeed for the good of the community!

I tell you, I can't get the bad Chi off of me any time I go near one of those hospices. No matter how hard I scrub, it just won't come off.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Thor

Detox clinic is like a Hospice?

All those terminal patients breaking into cars and shaking people down for cash.

[CaptainCrunch]

Well they have nothing to lose.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by troutman

http://www.skepdic.com/fengshui.html

Feng shui has become a kind of architectural acupuncture: wizards and magi insert themselves into buildings or landscapes and use their metaphysical sensors to detect the flow of good and bad "energy." These masters for hire declare where bathrooms should go, which way doorways should face, where mirrors should hang, which room needs green plants and which one needs red flowers, which direction the head of the bed should face, etc. They decide these things on the basis of their feel for the flow of chi, electromagnetic fields, or whatever other form of energy the client will worry about.

Not saying it isn't a way for scam artists to make money, but really, there's no difference between believing in Feng Shui and believing in God. Both are doubtful to exist (IMO), yet both are believed to exist by many people.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by Thor

Detox clinic is like a Hospice?

The optics are obviously different, but the right to the protest is the same. In the end, both don't want it in their backyards for selfish reasons.

[Tinordi]

Aren't there building regulations to equip hospices with ecto containment units? What's the problem?

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by Jing

Or maybe they legitimately think this way? Chinese people can be very superstitious.

Go back to China then...

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Aren't there building regulations to equip hospices with ecto containment units? What's the problem?

There was until Gregory Peck got his way.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

Go back to China then...

Apparently this might have nothing to do with Chinese "custom" after all:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/A...115/story.html

It may just be property values after all. To tell you the truth I would be very surprised if the Chinese government was the type of government who would move hospice type buildings away from residential populations. I would almost guarantee that in China these buildings are right smack dab in the middle of heavily populated areas.