The morning news is quite depressing today simply because two days from now is the end of the month and it's mortgage payment time and rental payment, etc., etc. So many millions of people are living on a day to day living allowance and you can only budget to the point wherein you don't really need to starve yourself but it's a common sense that "it's the roof over you head first and foremost" in dealing with the situation. So many people in main Vancouver are raising their eyebrows every time the news on TV is about how high the price of houses, condominiums, and even run-down century old houses are worth millions of dollars. How could that be? The would be owners wont be staying in those old dilapidated houses or building, they will demolish them anyway and build new ones. So it only shows that the value of land has not diminished and it's the land or lot that's worth millions of dollars. They could build a tall building maybe at least 10 to 20 storry house on a vacant lot and turn that building into office spaces or rental condos and the value will eventually go up like as if it's a rocket-sky high because it's located in a prime location adjacent to mega malls, shopping arcades, walking distance to all sorts of accessible amenities such as hospitals, cinemas, health clinic, parks and museums. It would be nice to live or reside in one of those skyscrapers or condos but living in style in such pricey apartments could be very costly! You should be a millionaire or at least have an occupation that guarantees earnings of $10,000 (or higher) per month, because the rent could be costly as in $5,000/month based on how large the space area allocated for the occupants.
Living in Vancouver is really costly, no doubt about it. It's like showing you that people who live in that main city are so freaking rich and if you live in rural areas then don't bother the value of urban city simply there's a lot of difference and a lot to be compared of in terms of access to luxuries and amenities. Point is, do the city has enough employment offerings for people there? Or some of them are just pretending to be rich? That there's really not much opportunity there that to mock newcomers is to raise its overvalued properties. Ridiculous as it may seem that the news also revealed disgusting issues of many homeless people, traffic, pollution, health issues and crimes are some of those many reasons that thwart people away from residing in the main city.
People are overworked in Canada, there are many workers who are working two to three jobs just to make ends meet. Why? There are workers who are employed for 4 hours/day and another worker is called for the next 4 hours shift that to sustain an ordinary living, a worker will find another work somewhere else that sometimes an ordinary employee is working in 3 different sources of income. How's that possible? Let me tell you an example: A nurse working on 4 hour shift/day in the hospital, then works for 4 hours shift as a nurse in a home for the aged then a nurse-caregiver at night for 4 hours for a disabled person (home care). A man worked in the oil rig for 6 hours and then works as a bartender for 4 hours in the nearby club adjacent to his house. Or a woman who works as a night club singer at night then works as a waitress in the morning. A man works as a car sales man at daytime and works in the office as an accountant during the peak season of income tax return. Or a singer works at night on entertainment business and then operates on her cupcake business (bakery) at daytime. A man sells aluminum pots and pans at daytime and works as a part time stunt man for a movie film. You just hope that man will become the leading actor instead of just an extra or stunt man.
Life in Canada and the U.S. is the same. Everyone works to earn wages. And if you are not paid for the kind of work you are doing especially when you are a strategist then you are being ripped-off and cheated!
