We lived through...
 

I was just thinking about all the crazy crap we lived through.

Mid 90's - economic prosperity in vancouver. We had 15 cent hot dogs at the hasting community center, parades in the summer, and housing was only 200-300k for a Vancouver special

2000's - Digital age, dot com boom. I still remember when i started using google in high school as an alternative to lycos and Altavista. Also installing games on the school computers because they didnt know anything. 16bit color instead of 32bit and all dialup modems.

This one kid in high school made good money just burning CD-R's for people as his dad had a CD burner

2008 - Recession and sub prime crash. Thats when i bought in. 500k for a house in richmond. Seems expensive at the time but looking back it was cheap as shit. I remember seeing you can buy homes in the states for like 20-30k USD during this crash. If i had cash i would have bought a few properties in AZ or FL.

2010 - Pandemic was pretty quiet. Economy was good, things were pretty steady

Pandemic - i cant believe 3 million people died from Covid19. Crazy. Nobody in my immediate family was impacted by this, but i did hear some of older folks kicking the bucket before we had vaccines.

I didn't know we had a pandemic in 2010 as well...

How could you not include 9/11. The gulf war should really be included as well. You missed so many things and completely left out the 80's... The in 2008 was mainly in the US and not in Canada..

Apparently yesterday 311 was the 4 year anniversary of white people believing COVID was real and had to lock down. Fukushima earth quake causing radiation water for everyone :ahwow:

9/11 was pretty cool :troll:

I remember the day it happened I must have been in 9th grade so I could understand the gravity of it. Went to science class where the teacher was also our rugby coach so we had a pretty close relationship and he was a pretty smart guy, I can still hear him saying “from this point on the world will never be the same” and he was obviously 100% correct

I’ve been watching some videos lately of Woodstock 99, infamous for the riots and now the Netflix documentary etc. there was one overview of it I watched showing how that really symbolized the end of the 90’s, as tech began to become more integral in every part of our lives some innocence was lost and we we went into the new millennium, and ultimately, 9/11 that way of living quickly disappeared and we came into this new age.

oh i mean 2010 to the pandemic. it was pretty slow.

yeah i missed a lot of shit. feel free to add it in. Its just a slow day at work and my old lady secretary is celebrating her birthday so i hid in my office pretending to be busy typing shit so i dont have to go interact with her. (i forgot how old she is, and i didnt get her anything)

9/11 totally slipped my mind. Not sure why, but it just feels like normal to go through airport security, taking off shoes, laptops, etc. No liquids. I forgot back in the days you can literally walk right up to the gate and see someone off.

As a Vancouver who was born and raised in that city, I have seen many changes in the city and changes in our home Canada for the past three decades.

Changes were happening in Greater Vancouver well before the 90s.

Expo 86 for example.

The big immigrant wave of Hong Kong residents in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

The beginning of Hongcouver. :troll:

We had a lot of cultural and technological changes in our lifetime, and unfortunately economically. No world wars, no drafts, no genocides etc. all n’ all we’ve had it great.

The future though… it’s only going to get worse here.

You guys remember when the best chinese food was like the Sun Sui Wah on main st? and Chinatown still had chinese people in it? or the summer night markets in Chinatown?

What a strange time warp to think back when i used to be able to drive from VanTech to Richmond in 20 minutes (3:15pm left school, got to my moms work in Richmond at 3:35pm).


^yeah i still recall getting my first cell phone and playing snake on it. I also remember being obsessed with that Nokia phone from the Matrix movie and trying to get cases to make my shitty nokia bar phone into a "flip" phone for extra street cred

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Lol, my asian next door neighbour. Charged me $2 a disc. He was kind of a weird kid, we weren't really friends but he always wanted to hang out while the discs were burning. Damn 2x speed and taking an hour to burn a disc.

Everyone wanted that phone

Thought I was so baller when I could borrow my dads Star-tac lol

I remember they had like.. night markets at the coliseum as well? Or somewhere like that I remember walking the concourse and then having all the typical night market booths Selling bootleg DVD’s and mods for all the Nokia phones. I had that all clear 3390 lol the clear battery was complete garbage.

I remember I convinced my dad to buy us our first CD burner “pine” brand from Costco fuck it was like $650 for 2-3x speed. I convinced him I was gonna make money selling CD’s but in the end it took so long really just made them for myself and it somone heard my “mix tape” I’d sell it to them for $20 lol

It's really just the cycle of life. But pay attention to them, they are what makes or breaks you.

As far as economics is concerned, my family has always seen economic downturns as opportunities to buy in. Economic downturn would occur either naturally or accidentally (in the case of COVID, for example)

The way we do it is to accumulate cash/pay off debt during the good times. If you look at the historical economic chart, interest rates always crash with a recession. It's not difficult to understand. The whole idea of dropping the rate is to pump up the economy. When it reaches the peak of the cycle, where interest rate would drop to rock bottom, we'd then start to take on debts... refinance all the holdings we have to gather as much cash as possible to invest, and lock into the lowest possible rates while at the highest possible valuation.

Right now, as far as my parents' portfolio is concerned, they are paying a peasant 2.8% average on their *commercial* holdings with an average yield of 18% in rent across their portfolio.

Then when the interest rate rises, we wait until it reaches a point where it's hard for many to continue, we just swoop in and start lowballing on every deal we see worth an offer. We pretty much do every offer at 50% off. The idea is not to buy them at 50% off. But to see who in the market are in a distress for capital. We've always managed to buy at around 30-40% off the fair market value at the time and easily 50% off its peak.

Then recession hits, rates start to drop, rinse and repeat.

While it might not sound the most morally correct way to do things... that's roughly my parents secret sauce to success and building their business.

Elites want people to naively believe that when interest rate is low, you should go all in, and when interest is high, you should be conservative. When in fact, they are doing the exact opposite. My parents somehow figured this out in their early 40s and just rode along.

1) we lived thru RUNNING around on the streets.... riding bicycles stealing stuff eg// car decks and yet we didn't have car back then.. etc

2) We lived thru physical bullying... now it's all fake this fake this all bully online...

3) Lived thru age where we had to imagine to play. There was no such thing as video. "Where was it written"
"I'll see it to believe it"

Gone are the days of sitting and imagining and playing with free time.

Those were the 3 thigns recently came to mind.

I vividly remember 911 as well.

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I was in university and living with my flatmates at the time. I literally just woke up to call a "friend", and she told me the initial attack has just happened at the WTC. So I jumped out of bed and turned on our crappy 2nd hand TV, and was glued to the screen for pretty much the whole day. Watched the 2nd plane slaming into the tower in real time. People leaping out of buildings to their deaths. All that smoke billowing out, and then the tower collasped -- all happening right in front of my eyes through the TV.

Everything was unreal, and yet they were all real.

I don't know how many times I have heard the phrase "the World would never be the same anymore", and it certainly wasn't.

The bullying dynamic totally seems to have swtched around.

I was talking to the father of my son's classmate and he also has a son in grade 5.
He's a big sports guy, and by extension his kid is in a lot of sports, and also gets little to no computer/games/screen time.

Well, apparently his kid was getting made fun of because he wasn't up to date on all the latest youtube memes and shit. His dad caved and they apparently got him fortnight, and then he's getting made fun of because he's so far behind everyone else.

omg car decks!!! i totally remember taking those out and hiding them underneath the seat, or taking it with you.

Lived through the Asian girl b-lining it to 69style asking for directions, only to end up giving her wrong directions. I will never forget that.

Yea one of my wife’s cousins said the same thing

Their daughter is like this 12 year old pretty typical 12 year old, still fairly innocent, naive, like a 12 year old probably should

Then they said their family friend has a 13 year old who’s already dressing with her big tits hanging out, hella makeup and wanting to rock designer shit and have a “presence” on social media. So now their daughter feels like she’s being left behind cause all these young girls are trying to he wanna-be influencers and other gross shit they are trying to shield her from lol.. what a world

-lived through big changes in retail shopping in Vancouver, Lower Mainland.

Eatons? Gone.

Future Shop? Gonzo.

Bobby Dazzler. Gone too. I used to think that those plasma orb lights at this store were cool haha.

A & B Sound. Doorcrasher sales on Boxing Day haha.

Blockbuster Video.


Shopping these days is more geared towards online shopping and delivery of your purchases. Amazon.

Heck, you can even get a Slurpee delivered to you from 7-Eleven. LUL Food delivery apps everywhere.

Business failed to adapt and they fail.

I loved the time to lineup for new TVs on Boxing Day at A&B sound. But they had their days counted. That’s the only day I’d visit them.

Here our business is still kinda protected due to our high labor/shipping cost.

In China, where a delivery is either free or a mere dollar or less, people don’t bother to shop in person anymore. Most of things are delivered including groceries and whatever. Only families with elders who want to go to market by themselves.

I think the retail sector will continue to change. In another 10yrs, assuming delivery costs continue to fall, most retail stores will disappear. I think our kids wouldn’t understand the idea of going to stores when they grow up.

yea seriously everyone wanted that matrix nokia phone and nokia couldnt rub two brain cells together to actually make it.. woulda sold like crazy.

everyone i knew ended up buying that moto razr. You had to make yourself special by getting the super expensive D&G gold one, or those gaudy cases that girls used w/ tethers and shit

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Never had a razr, by the end of their life cycle they were a budget phone for poors anyways :lol

Crazy back then there were so many different phones back then, I remember I wanted this Panasonic flip phone with a color screen so bad, but it was like $1200..

Now dropping like 3k on a new iPhone it’s like eh whatever lol. Was kinda cool when everyone had different phones but I guess that would mean getting away from things like iMessage etc.

you guys have any images taken by those old phones back in the days? i cant seem to find any pics taken on my razr cuz the resolution was super poor. I do remember customizing the startup screen with this gif

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...jySQVFv6oe5nko

Didnt we have skanks back then too? im pretty sure we did. I recall a few girls in high school wearing pretty skanky outfits and giving me shit for starring at their asses. I do remember that Rena Virk girl was the poster child for bullying.

What's a pedophile's favourite time of the day?

When the big hand touches the little hand.

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E71 gang rise up