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Originally Posted by Fuzz
It's also extremely hard for those who have grown up in Canmore to stay in the community after. I know, no sympathy, but you do lose something when most young people could never afford to buy a home and stay. I've known many who have tried and failed. Some moved to Cochrane and commute to work in Canmore. I know several who build the homes in Canmore they can't afford to buy. But at least their are thousands of condos that sit empty 90% of the time.
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So what, though?
I have friends who grew up in Edgemont pseudo-mansions that live in little bungalows as adults because they can't afford to live where they grew up.
My dad had better houses than my house.
My cousin grew up in a wealthy home and spent summers and holidays at his family's insane cabin and vacationed in Hawaii annually throughout his upbringing. Lives in a two bedroom house now and his biggest vacation in the last 20 years has been a camping trip to Vancouver Island. He drives a delivery van.
My wife's family is from France. Her dad and aunt grew up in Antibes, France. Checked out real estate there lately? Her aunt lives in a suburb of Paris now and could never dream in a bazillion years of affording a place in Antibes. Loves her memories of her childhood there, but resentment she is now priced out doesn't enter into her mind.
Do you think people have a birthright to Canmore? If so, why does that just start in the 80s and 90s? Why not before then...you know, when the First Nations called it home?
You don't think Calgarians have ever been "pushed out" of their homes in the name of progress? Deerfoot, Crowchild, Stoney, every subdivision...everywhere had people living where newer development now stands. There's no other way.
Why - just because somebody had the good fortune of being born in Canmore - do they get to stay (in your mind) before somebody new gets to love in?
What if I was a long haul trucker and only spent weekends at home in Calgary? Should I be denegrated for my place being empty 90% of the time? What about snowbirds? Calgary house empty half the year; Arizona house empty half the year. Do you have a moral issue with that?
Should there be more housing in Canmore for all the displaced Canmorites? Fkn complain to full-time residents. They are the ones who vote down housing expansion. There is a housing crunch and increased prices because the residents (I'm not allowed to vote since I'm a part-timer) constantly vote, and bitch/complain against new builds.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. Canmore people are the MAGA screechers of Alberta chanting 'build a wall.' It's the same mindset. They're just missing the red hats. FYGM instead of MAGA, though. They're selfish, self centered, exclusionary and completely ignorant to how every other facet of our system of freely being allowed to buy anything we want in this country works. We're allowed to buy a place in Canmore. Canmore people need to respect their neighbours - and part time neighbours - as fellow Albertans, Canadians and humans, frankly. The vitriol is out of line and immature.
Who wouldn't want a vacation property in Canmore? If you love the mountains, love skiing and love biking around and then catching an awesome meal at a wicked restaurant then there's nowhere better in our parts.
Sadly, it's too expensive for everyone to get to enjoy, but thems the breaks, I'm afraid. Canmore need to wrap their heads around this like everyone everywhere else does when this exact same thing happens elsewhere.
Go price out a cabin in Whistler in 1992 and then price it out now. Wonder if it has gone up.
Take any random condo in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, etc and do the exact same thing. Let me know if you see a pattern that mimics Canmore's real estate issues.
It's also rich you are an out-of-town transplant into Calgary and a contributor to our increased prices and congestion and user of infrastructure versus before you came, yet I'd bet my left nut no Calgarian has ever tried to make you feel like an outsider or somebody who doesn't belong because you weren't born here.
I really hope Canmore people are able to reflect on their build-a-wall / dey take 'er jaabs mentality at some point. It's ludicrous and it's rude.
I don't know. I'd also day the ugliest parts of Canmore are caused by the destruction the pricks who lived in Canmore in the 1900s caused. Destroyed ecology. Abandoned mine shafts. Undermined and unstable mountains sides. Toxins literally piped and dumped into the Bow River for Calgarians to the drink. Blown up mountains. These people were the worst thing to ever happen to that valley and all for the almighty dollar.
And it was all stolen land, to boot, lol.
Canmore people are victims, but only in their own heads. They have elevated their needs, gripes and desires above everyone else's.
Best revenge is doing whatever we can to fk them over, though. Just bought a fridge. Avoided Canmore stores and went to HK e Depot in Calgary. I will not support these pricks that loath us. For every sneer I get from a Canmore jerk, I plot an asymetrical revenge to pluck a dollar out of their community and out it somewhere else. Right down to grocery shopping in Calgary to make sure I'm contributing as little to the Canmore economy as possible. Took me a couple years with my place there to get to that point...we started off being so excited to be apart of the community, but holy cow are these people #######s to us.
I have several Calgary friends with places there. Everyone has gone through the exact same trajectory. It's another funny thing about the locals. They constantly shoot themselves in the foot. I love it.
