Thursday, January 31, 2008
Pay more to live in the same shithole!
Why has the cost of housing gone up so much in this city? The price of houses has doubled in the past few years but no other signs of prosperity otherwise. … no new stores, no BMWs clogging the streets, no new companies investing here. Just more expensive homes, suburban sprawl on the outskirts of the city, and more Walmarts. Not what I’d call REAL signs of wealth. People are just as poor here as ever so someone please tell me: where is the money driving up the price of real estate coming from? Are all the farmers selling their combines on Ebay and moving into town to be closer to Walmart? And better yet, why hasn’t the government done anything about rent controls? What a bloody joke! The land of socialism and they can’t even pass a tenancy act that protects people from getting evicted from $250 a month rent increases….
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I can explain that. An old guy in Vancouver sent his kids up here with a few million dollars to buy all listen residential properties in Saskatoon. All were flipped the day after closing for twice the price. Most were never even looked at just turned over asap. Instant boom! They left as quickly as they came to find other shelters for serious capitol gains. The city loved it. Made property taxes look more reasonable and gave public works an excuse to triple the number of useless supervisors. Cool eh?
2022 and this post is still relevant.
Except now there are 2 Costco and an Olive Garden, yay. The city is striving. The lighthouse, a homeless shelter the size of a business centre right downtown, is becoming too small to welcome the misery of the city. A new homeless shelter is opening north of the city. With 20% of the population in the province living in poverty, it is not surprising. Three organizations in the city recently had a crisis meeting to try finding a strategy to save downtown Saskatoon (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/downtown-at-the-tipping-point-saskatoon-1.6277793). Misery and Desolation are the two best ways to define the city, and the province as a whole. I could also talk about the gang wars that keep the cops too busy to come help when a house is getting broken into, the insane high amount of stabbing (it's almost a form of greeting at this point), or the crumbling hospitals. The city is also becoming a new haven for white nationalists. It is no surprise Maxime Bernier spent the 2021 election night in Saskatoon. On a larger scale, the province is also doing very poorly on the human scale. First nations are being outcasted or completely ignored. I know this is a national wide problem, but the phenomenon is largely amplified in the Prairies. Did I mentioned the regular outbreaks of tuberculosis up North (https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/time-to-invest-in-ending-tuberculosis-in-sask-doctors-say/ar-AAVrKNU)? A deadly disease that had been eliminated in all developed countries is still very much present in Saskatchewan. This province is the third world country of Canada.
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