Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp (Post 7267053)

I can also easily find agents that say it will affect the resell value of the apartments. Just coz 3 agents said it won't affect the value doesn't mean 100% of every agent in van will say the same thing and it certainly doesn't not mean 100% of the population who is looking for an apartment will not think living besdie a Hospices is ok and they don't care about it.

Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 7267165)

this argument is still ongoing?

Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp (Post 7266662)

Less people want to buy these apartments = less market since less people will be looking for these apartments = apartments value goes down or takes a lot longer to sell.

Originally Posted by Graeme S (Post 7267263)

People who invest in real estate and expect a liquid asset are only fooling themselves. It takes time to make a decision on a house; very few people will instantly snap something up, and if that's the case, it is most likely because they are not fully considering all aspects, or because the market is highly speculative

Originally Posted by Graeme S (Post 7267263)

Again, nobody likes to waste money, but according to the constant media releases from this group, money is not the issue--it's about spiritual beliefs.

Originally Posted by RevYouUp (Post 7267005)

I'm pretty sure it will affect resale values, I mean even the effing address number affects the value of a house

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...shColumbiaHome

study done by UBC btw :troll:

Originally Posted by MindBomber (Post 7268150)

^^If the difference in a homes value was really 2.2% less, then why wouldn't the homeowner pay $1000 and have the house number changed to include eights and add $20,000 in value as opposed to detracting from it.

Originally Posted by Mancini (Post 7267274)

True. If I was going to buy property I would perform my due diligence.

I was renting a place in a new development. My neighbors (who purchased) told me that one side of the building sold out in one day. People apparently came prepared to buy before even stepping foot inside. Yet it was those same people that couldn't stand aspects of the neighborhood and petitioned to have the longstanding businesses across the street removed for various reasons. Due diligence beforehand would have revealed everything they later felt were problems.

Originally Posted by optiblue (Post 7268860)

It's a touchy topic and Asians are more superstitious with the subject of "4" than most other local cultures.

Originally Posted by optiblue (Post 7268860)

Even when we tried to sell, the sign would fall off the post hanger everynight.

Originally Posted by Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1875103/

"Hospice critics don’t speak for us, Chinese community says"

Distancing themselves from condo owners who have opposed a hospice on cultural grounds, Chinese community representatives on Tuesday held a press conference to say the residents’ views do not accurately represent Chinese culture or beliefs.

The group – which included an academic, a feng shui practitioner and the executive director of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians – said while residents’ concerns may reflect some aspects of Chinese folklore, it is false to claim that living next door to a hospice is incompatible with Chinese culture.

“There is a very grave concern in the Chinese community – and it’s not just amongst a few – that Chinese culture is being misrepresented by a few and is giving Chinese-Canadians, and Chinese culture, a bad name,” David Choi, national executive director of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians, said at the press conference.

The clash between a proposed hospice and what residents said was their cultural sensitivities emerged last week, when a group of people who live in a condominium tower on the University of British Columbia Campus went public with their objections to a planned 15-bed hospice near their homes.

A spokeswoman for the group, consisting mostly of recent Chinese immigrants, said 80 per cent of the building’s residents are Asian and that a nearby hospice would flout Chinese cultural sensitivities around death and dying.

It is “impossible” for Chinese people to have dying people in their backyard, Janet Fan said in an interview.

In response to resident concerns, UBC put the project on hold.

The residents’ comments, and UBC’s response, resulted in a flood of commentary, including extensive coverage in Vancouver’s Chinese-language media.

Mr. Choi and others at the event said they decided to discuss the issue in public after getting calls from friends and business associates urging them to speak out.

Compassion and respect – especially for the elderly – are entrenched Chinese cultural values and a hospice is compatible with those values, Mr. Choi said.

He and other speakers discussed the concept of yin and yang – cited by residents as a factor in their objections to the hospice – as being about balance and wholeness, rather than exclusion.

In Chinese religious teachings, there is no higher virtue than relieving other people’s suffering, said Jan Walls, founding director of the David Lam Centre at Simon Fraser University.

“The relief of suffering is probably one of the noblest goals and one of the noblest activities that a Chinese person can engage in,” Mr. Walls said.

The hospice had been scheduled to open in mid-2012. The current site was chosen through a four-year process that weighed other campus locations, including one that resulted in objections from students because of its proximity to student residences. UBC nixed that site based on land use and density considerations, not stakeholder objections, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

According to the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, more than 100 million people a year need palliative care but fewer than eight million receive it. In Canada, only 16 to 30 per cent of residents have access to or receive hospice palliative care, depending on where they live.

Originally Posted by Amuse (Post 7271102)

Gordon Campbell lives there too.