What are you sick of doing?

[corporatejay]

Managing my waste output. I feel like it's a constant battle with the recycling/garbage bins for the volume of waste my house outputs. It's typically not that bad, but with the pandemic, we acquire most of our goods online so it's just boxes and boxes and boxes, and now with Xmas it's particularly bad.

When does the city come out with the unlimited garbage if you buy the tags program?

Edit: Holy ####, that's time is now!!!!

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by peter12

We've been looking for another place in Vancouver this year and $800k is our baseline for something decent. It's so depressing to just peek at the Calgary market and see what $800k gets you.

We’ve been looking for another place around 800 as well. It’s depressing that I can’t find anything in downtown Calgary with a lack of snow, bay or harbour view, and a large beach down the street.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

We’ve been looking for another place around 800 as well. It’s depressing that I can’t find anything in downtown Calgary with a lack of snow, bay or harbour view, and a large beach down the street.

Fair play.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by peter12

Also Vancouver has pitifully low crime rates compared to virtually any other rural small town in British Columbia.

Rural Canada is dangerous. Urban Canada is almost ridiculously safe.

Density and safety can certainly go together. A lot of the safest cities in the world are also dense cities.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Ducay

I'm sick of: being confined to the house with my kids.

I love them, but not 24/7 for seemingly weeks on end without activities/outings/school/childcare to break up the monotony.

I can relate to you on that one for sure. Not looking forward to having two younger kids at home doing online schooling plus the two week stack of work that's going to hit me from being off the past couple weeks this coming week.

As soon as my wife get's home from work I'm either heading outside to walk the dog or shovel snow. Anything to get out on my own for a few minutes.

I'm thankful to still be employed, and be able to pay for my stupidly over borrowed house. But at times I feel imprisoned because there is always unfinished work that I feel like I should be doing, plus the idea that I should be doing more for my kids during the day when they're home and I'm trying to work. End result is that I'm pretty exhausted right now as I find I don't have any escape from either of these.

[Shin Pad]

Originally Posted by peter12

Also Vancouver has pitifully low crime rates compared to virtually any other rural small town in British Columbia.

Rural Canada is dangerous. Urban Canada is almost ridiculously safe.

I disagree. I feel totally safe in my rural area - a lot safer than I would in a city.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

I don't know that this is a reasonable assumption, or that Vancouver is the best comparison. A port city where drugs flow into the country and the homeless hold out through the winters doesn't make for an apples to apples comparison with Calgary.

Fair enough. The Vancouver to Burnaby comparison another poster made above seems like a bit more apples to apples given they are in the same metro area. And in that case the less dense place also spends much less per capita.

All I'm saying is that there doesn't appear to be any evidence policing costs are cheaper in dense locations. For all the people saying I'm wrong there seems to not be a lot of demonstrable evidence getting presented.

Edited to add: i don't have an ideological position on this issue, and switching the tax system to be based on land area instead of assessed value would be a huge benefit to me personally. But GGG said he thought a variety of service costs were at least partially driven by density, and I don't think there is a correlation there.

[afc wimbledon]

safety is not just a criminal issue though, you can feel and might be safer from crime in the middle of nowhere but your chances of getting lousy healthcare and so not being diagnosed with cancer quickly enough or dying in a car crash due to slower response time from Emergency Services and mediocre rural ER's are massively higher

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Fair enough. The Vancouver to Burnaby comparison another poster made above seems like a bit more apples to apples given they are in the same metro area. And in that case the less dense place also spends much less per capita.

All I'm saying is that there doesn't appear to be any evidence policing costs are cheaper in dense locations. For all the people saying I'm wrong there seems to not be a lot of demonstrable evidence getting presented.

To be fair, you don't really have evidence showing you're right either.

Maybe you are right. Maybe you're wrong. I don't know. It's an interesting question, but it's not like anyone has presented a clear answer here yet.

What's the reason for the focus on policing anyways?

[Fuzz]

I'm sick of voting for flawed human politicians. Give me some advanced algorithms to replace all those money sucking embarrassment clowns and I'll take my chances with becoming a rounding error. Gotta be better than this.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Shin Pad

I disagree. I feel totally safe in my rural area - a lot safer than I would in a city.

You may feel safer but statistically you’re not.

You’re probably far, far more likely to experience, for example, a home invasion or robbery than a city dweller.

[djsFlames]

Different strokes for different folks.

[Shin Pad]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

safety is not just a criminal issue though, you can feel and might be safer from crime in the middle of nowhere but your chances of getting lousy healthcare and so not being diagnosed with cancer quickly enough or dying in a car crash due to slower response time from Emergency Services and mediocre rural ER's are massively higher

Fair enough. I'm not that far out that I don't get decent health care. As far as ER response times - my son is a paramedic and lives just down the road from me, so it's a bit of comfort for me on that front. Yes, you can die in a car accident - I have to drive 14 km to the nearest town to get groceries, etc., so it is a risk. But then again, I sometimes go 2 weeks without leaving my property, so I don't drive much.

Anyway, there are advantages and disadvantages to both rural and city/town living. When I was referring to safety, I was referring to crime. As you pointed out, safety involves more issues than just crime.

[Shin Pad]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

You may feel safer but statistically you’re not.

You’re probably far, far more likely to experience, for example, a home invasion or robbery than a city dweller.

Yeah it can happen, but I have never had anything stolen when I lived in a rural area. As far as home invasions, you'd have to be on crack to try it in a rural area - country folks are all armed to the teeth

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Shin Pad

Yeah it can happen, but I have never had anything stolen when I lived in a rural area. As far as home invasions, you'd have to be on crack to try it in a rural area - country folks are all armed to the teeth

That's the whole point of invading country folks houses, guns are worth an absolute fortune on the black market

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Shin Pad

Yeah it can happen, but I have never had anything stolen when I lived in a rural area. As far as home invasions, you'd have to be on crack to try it in a rural area - country folks are all armed to the teeth

Here now, we're not gun-loving savages like our neighbors to the south.

We protect our land like civilized people. With crossbows, bear traps, and hidden corpse pits.

[Shin Pad]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

That's the whole point of invading country folks houses, guns are worth an absolute fortune on the black market

Sure it can happen. But out where I am, it's highly unlikely.

[CaptainCrunch]

Converting Oxygen to CO2

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Shin Pad

Sure it can happen. But out where I am, it's highly unlikely.

it's even more unlikely in the typical city, perceptions of safety do not correlate with actual safety.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Shin Pad

Sure it can happen. But out where I am, it's highly unlikely.

It’s more likely to happen in the winter because your moat is frozen over.