It’s always funny to see how other places deal with illness, with like you said the cocktail of drugs.

My wife had really bad food poisoning in Nice from obvious suspect seafood. Here you’d probably get some industrial grade pepto or sonthing. There we went to the pharmacy and they gave her like 4 different things to take at 4 different times

Ah, so the Vietnamese must have learned their pharmacutical dispensing methods from their old colonial masters, le French.

call me boring af, i try to avoid raw food and drinks with ice cubes in developing areas

not worth ruining a trip over

Not boring, prudent advice, unless you're from there or lived there for a while your microbiome won't be used to the bacteria in the water.
There's a reason most street food is deep fried

Spoken with authority by someone who's had the shits down the side of a sherpa hill if I remember correctly hahahaha

Hah, yeah I was all kinds of sick on that damn mountain.

Didn't have no doctor to see neither to pump me full of drugs. Had to self-medicate with what I had.:eek5x:

Always go with a prescription vial of broad spectrum antibiotics.

I rate it very high vs other places i have been, hence why i extended vs going somewhere else.

Food is good overall, not great, but good. Other people i spoke with said in the last few years variety has really kicked in, useto be curry and thats it. 3 meals a day for 6$, or 30$ if you want to eat like a king.

People are extremely nice, i feel safe walking around with expensive camera gear. Inland is beautiful, coast is amazing for consistent surf.

Only issue is how god dam far it is. 20hrs minimum travel, closer to 30hrs for most flights, 40 for cheap flights.

I would live here if i had a remote job.

i had the opposite problem lol!

just before the 7 day trek up a mtn, i took immotile drug

the guides were like you idiot, why would you keep the toxins in?

I don't own rental properties but dayam...
wow who in their right mind ever rent out their house...
asking down payment for new home to move out...
And this advocate guy saying renters should demand it... speechless...

This is the kind of stuff that happens when people are desperate... they get crazy ideas or start acting criminal.

Whole place is unaffordable to almost everyone (RS ballers not included).

I just had another couple over at my place on Sunday, they both making 6 figures and he owns a condo free and clear but they wanna live in Van proper and they're looking at old townhouses and fucked up brand new duplex or multi-living situations where everyone share water but only 1 other neighbour shares electricity but there's no strata just an "implied" one... sounds like a fucking bad joke. The look on their faces as they try to justify all this shit is one of total denial in the face of hopelessness.

I told them they can get a house in Delta for 1.5 in really nice shape, all renovated... "Oh no... no... no... nobody would ever come see us again, we'd be isolated"... lol... they're not wrong, but wow it's bad.

Then you take someone making barista wages renting and they want to move for whatever reason, family or otherwise and can't leave their rental because it will spike to 2x what they pay to go somewhere else and it's no surprise to me that they start trying to carve another human up and take it in skin.

I've only watched the first few minutes to get the gist of what is going on, but on the surface, nothing looks illegal (yet).

The tenant has the right to continue living in his rental suite, as long as he pays rent.
The new buyer is obviously not purchasing the unit until the tenant is evicted.
The landlord is unfortunate because she is stuck in a bad financial place. She can either:

- keep taking the financial hits from her mortgage payments for who knows how long, hoping she can ride out the high interest rates
- eat the loss by giving into the tenant's "extortion"
- eat the loss by accepting a lower offer from the new buyer so that the new buyer will take care of evicting the tenant

I'm not even sure what space there is for the paralegal to step in, other than to act as a mediator of some sort, but then her services aren't free, and that would only add to the landlord's financial difficulties.

But this sort of dog-eat-dog, everyone out for themselves (at other people's expense) mentality is what happens when everyone is facing hardship.

Any listings to the $1.5 in Delta? When I looked 2-3 years ago, there was some really solid 1970-1990 homes for $1.2-1.3 that were awesome.

Same issue though, no one would drive out to delta, at least not often.

Can't a FTHB low-ball, buy this unit, move-in to evict tenant, then relist? Rinse and repeat!

For fear of sounding like a broken record, but so much around the rental housing situation can be resolved by funneling a bit more money into the system to handle disputes more quickly. Policies to fast track situations like this where the cause of a dispute is due to simple unit sale & new owner posession should be enacted.

That being said, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for those landlords in the video. They bought investment properties, (probably mostly because they were seen as safe investments. Now they find out that investments carry risks. Interest rates go up, tenants execise their rights... etc. Shocking! Really not a whole lot different than buying a bunch of stocks that tank.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...od-place-delta

This place is nicely done up and exactly 1.5

Delta honestly is not that bad unless their friends live in like Burke Mountain or something. Chances are you are visiting when it's not rush hour and from east van to Delta is probably a 20minute drive. Sure there's probably not going to be any spontaneous weeknight gather for drinks and shit, but tbh as you get older you don't do those as much anyways. Right after we got married like 8 years ago we were asked to hang out at 9:30pm. We did it because it we knew the couple in question was trying to give us their wedding invite in person, but on the way there my wife and I both remarked that wow we are getting old or something it's weird heading out at 9:30 on a weeknight and we rather be home watching TV.

Vancouver proper people are BRUTAL tho... the "Vancouver Bail" is a real thing at the best of times, but even if it was 5 minutes away but it's over a bridge?? NOPE

My little bottle of ciprofloxacin has been a mainstay as an emergency go-to on any trip where you might run into the runs.

It's crazy how many friends have described the same experience when going to Nepal/Himalayas. Diarrhea, fucked up tummies. Always sounds like a fucking nightmare too, having the shits in a tent at elevation.

Fuck all of that, visiting there has been a bucket list item that I doubt we'll ever do :lol

Just bring your bucket

those idiots can keep it. enjoy your stupid ass 4000sqft narrow lots surrounded by idiots and soon a mutiplex 4 dwelling

enjoy your fighting for parking on streets and shitty roads just to save 10-20 minutes on your commutes. Ill take my richmond any day of the week and twice on sundays

Bro last month was the first time you visited me in 3 years. Hotpot again in a few weeks? But tbh, if you have your own life or don't mind driving out, it's not that bad.

I paid 1,036,000 for mine in 2020. It was built in 1973 and renovated in 2020 by EI.. soo gg to quality finishing. But for what I have, I'm grateful.

Gerbs is a Vancouver proper person. And so was another person I invited over for dinner. Who shockingly came but probably bc of steaks. This other person thinks Richmond is far... and he lives by Oakrdige.

This area of Delta is weird because I like the houses and neighborhoods... but I fuckin hate the sprawl of 120 and the shopping centres... so many annoying and skiddy people and the traffic does not... flow. I don't know if I could balance the 2 out, would depress the shit out of me everytime I gotta go to Strawberry Hills area ughhhhhghghghghghhhh

^^ I still don't get the hype of van. People sound like they will die or it's some zombie wasteland outside if Van. Beggars can't be choosers, as bclc says know your limits play within it. If Van is too expensive too bad so sad, their parents should have bought them a place 20 years ago. More than you can afford pal Vancouver, make more money or GTFO. I don't see why people feel they are entitled to be somewhere or it's like some right.

I want a West Van bad hobz complex, but I'm too poor, too bad so sad. Last time I heard Surrey is literally poppin or booming :troll: free weekly car fires. Should be more poppin once the sky train gets extended.

More reason to go to the island or Alberta.

Interestingly the only bridge my friends will drive over is into Richmond and maybe into North Van because it feels like they're going to explore the outdoors.

For Delta and Surrey, people cringe.

Would you actually like to live in West Van? I feel like that's a little too far out of the city. Unless you mean West End or West Side? lol it gets confusing.

yes, the wife and i looked into west van too.

Pros:
- She can brag she lives in west van, up in the hills like a stuck up cunt
- some of the houses have nice views. In our budget there was some decent newer homes that had nice views but they were closer to horseshoe bay area.

Cons:
- She has to drive her ass up those hills and likely die along the way
- We have nothing to eat there, i can only go to aburi market so many times. Asian food options are garbage there
- it'll always be raining. even when richmond is overcast, it'll be raining up there
- lions gate / 2nd narrows both suck so bad i dont even want to deal with that. Compared to the Oak, Arthur Lang, and Knight (+ Queensborough if you wanna go that far to bypass traffic) you are basically stuck most of the time