Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Velderan]

I'm actually so tilted. I want go in to this building and say just level with me, who the hell pays this rate.

A lot of tech workers who are able to work remotely started moving to smaller towns where overall cost of living is cheaper, so that $1900 probably looks like a deal if you're coming from a larger city where rent can be higher. I'm not sure which province you're in, but I imagine $1900 is cheap compared to renting an apartment in Toronto. A 3 and 1/2 second Google search told me a studio apartment can cost $1800 to rent in the Toronto area.

 

[Scribe]

A lot of tech workers who are able to work remotely started moving to smaller towns where overall cost of living is cheaper, so that $1900 probably looks like a deal if you're coming from a larger city where rent can be higher. I'm not sure which province you're in, but I imagine $1900 is cheap compared to renting an apartment in Toronto. A 3 and 1/2 second Google search told me a studio apartment can cost $1800 to rent in the Toronto area.

I'm in BC, and yeah remote work did a number on the local economics.

Signed, a pre covid remote worker lol

 

[Velderan]

I'm in BC, and yeah remote work did a number on the local economics.

Signed, a pre covid remote worker lol

Yeah, Vancouver looks worse from a brief search on the same site. It doesn't seem to be uncommon to pay $3000 a month rent from the listings that are out there, but no clue how the algorithm decides what to show me.

 

[Scribe]

Yeah, Vancouver looks worse from a brief search on the same site. It doesn't seem to be uncommon to pay $3000 a month rent from the listings that are out there, but no clue how the algorithm decides what to show me.

Yeah, Vancouver has been a joke for over a decade, they eventually passed a law to prevent further foreign purchasing of real estate there.

 

[Thomas Shey]

A lot of tech workers who are able to work remotely started moving to smaller towns where overall cost of living is cheaper, so that $1900 probably looks like a deal if you're coming from a larger city where rent can be higher. I'm not sure which province you're in, but I imagine $1900 is cheap compared to renting an apartment in Toronto. A 3 and 1/2 second Google search told me a studio apartment can cost $1800 to rent in the Toronto area.

It isn't even always tech workers. My wife is the manager of a sales support department of her company, and during COVID a number of her staff moved out of state since they were doing work from home anyway; even though the department rule is now in-office-three-days-a-week some of them got grandfathered in.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

@Scribe
Empathize. Rent in California has gone up as well, especially the areas I visit for work.

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Yeah, rent here is crazy, including in places that aren't desirable at all. We are definitely entering into an era where it's a real question where middle class and lower class people will be able to afford to live, after decades of local, state and federal housing policies have made new construction very difficult.

 

[prabe]

Yeah, I get that. The frustrating part is trying to explain suet to the butcher. Most have never even heard of it, or what it's used for, or how to get it. And the ones who do know what it is seem to want to talk me out of using it. It's just so weird.

"Suet? What's that?"
"Do you mean lard?"
"Do you mean tallow?"
"Do you mean birdseed?"
"What are you cooking with it?"
"Oh right, one sec." (leaves, returns with a brick of lard) "Here ya go!"

I must have had that conversation a half-dozen times yesterday. But I was finally able to get it from a butcher (an actual butcher, at a meat market--not a supermarket or grocery store), who actually knew what I was talking about. "Oh sure, we usually stock that for Christmas. Looks like the shipment will be in on Monday, you're lookin' at about $2/pound."

All right, so now I'm going to ask what you're using it for. What are you using it for? (I know it as a bird feeder thing, we get it regularly for that, I'm not suggesting you use bird food.)

 

[CleverNickName]

All right, so now I'm going to ask what you're using it for. What are you using it for? (I know it as a bird feeder thing, we get it regularly for that, I'm not suggesting you use bird food.)

I'm making two dishes with it this Christmas: turkey & dumplings, and figgy pudding.

(Suet starts to melt very close to the boiling temperature of water, so it is used mostly in steamed or boiled bread dishes. Other fats melt too soon, making the bread taste greasy.)

 

[prabe]

I'm making two dishes with it this Christmas: turkey & dumplings, and figgy pudding.

(Suet starts to melt very close to the boiling temperature of water, so it is used mostly in steamed or boiled bread dishes. Other fats melt too soon, making the bread taste greasy.)

Yeah, fats all melt differently, that makes sense. The dumplings at least might not be so seaonal-specific, I'd think you could get suet other times of year, maybe just with more lead time? (Clearly you've found a butcher who'll know. Huzzah!)

 

[Ryujin]

A lot of tech workers who are able to work remotely started moving to smaller towns where overall cost of living is cheaper, so that $1900 probably looks like a deal if you're coming from a larger city where rent can be higher. I'm not sure which province you're in, but I imagine $1900 is cheap compared to renting an apartment in Toronto. A 3 and 1/2 second Google search told me a studio apartment can cost $1800 to rent in the Toronto area.

I'm lucky. My family has been in this rental townhouse since the early '70s, about 40 Kms from the downtown core of Toronto. I'm still just under $1700 a month, at least until my next increase.

Yeah, Vancouver has been a joke for over a decade, they eventually passed a law to prevent further foreign purchasing of real estate there.

It's a problem in Toronto as well. Foreign investors buy condos, to park their money and declare as a residence, then they remain empty for years. Sometimes they'll declare multiple addresses as their "home", in order to dodge the additional taxes and fees, and it's up to the government to figure that out.