Vancouver can take pride in the fact that it’s now the second most expensive city for housing in the English-speaking world. Guess who’s number one?
Vancouver displaced Sydney as the least-affordable housing market after Hong Kong among large English-speaking cities, as home prices rose faster than incomes, a study of 325 metropolitan areas worldwide showed.
The median home price here is now 10.6 times greater than the median pretax household income. Is it possible there’s a correlation here?
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The UFC website was hacked today over the company’s public support for SOPA and PIPA, the unpopular anti-piracy legislation that went to defeat in Congress last week. The site was down for a few hours and redirected to the hacker’s website which featured a Hitler-type figure and a rap song about Obama.
No idea what the retaliation might be from the UFC, but they have fought hard against piracy of their live pay-per-view events and downloading of their material, as well as removing copyrighted material from YouTube. The internet terrorist organization anonymous has promised reprisals against large social media organizations in the coming days.
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This is how I feel when driving. Every single day.
I left the lower mainland 20 years ago and I can never go back, not because I can’t afford it, but because it is such a zoo. A human beehive like most major cities. Rural living is so laid back in comparison that even your driving depiction of the daily idiots is hard to fathom. Wife and I go down to lower mainland couple times a year to visit family and our greatest joy is seeing it in the rear view mirror when leaving.
That sopa/pipa video sounded like they mean business. Hard to believe how much of our daily lives depend on computers and the damage hackers are capable of doing.