Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[ytz]

Your last paragraph highlights one of the affordability issues and whether you can afford more children. Or, to be more precise, the myth. You don't need to have a separate bedroom for every child. It would be nice to, but it isn't a requirement, especially when they are young. It actually creates more of a burden on the family, in that it is more to clean, more to furnish, more to pay for.

I didn't grow up with a backyard either. In the part of the world where I grew up, that wasn't a thing. But most families in Canada, consider an individual bedroom and usually some kind of lawn space a minimum requirement. You can argue that our culture is entirely wrong. Go for it. But you're not going to reverse the birth rate decline, if that's the plan.

 

[YZT580]

I didn't grow up with a backyard either. In the part of the world where I grew up, that wasn't a thing. But most families in Canada, consider an individual bedroom and usually some kind of lawn space a minimum requirement. You can argue that our culture is entirely wrong. Go for it. But you're not going to reverse the birth rate decline, if that's the plan.

off the top of my head: baby boomers house size less than 1200 sq. ft. GenX house size was between 1500 and 2000. Millennials are up to 2500. No one can afford anymore so the sizes are going back down but it will take a while. They did it to themselves.

 

[ytz]

off the top of my head: baby boomers house size less than 1200 sq. ft. GenX house size was between 1500 and 2000. Millennials are up to 2500. No one can afford anymore so the sizes are going back down but it will take a while. They did it to themselves.

Source please.

Somehow I doubt the cohort with the lowest homeownership rate is only buying 2500 sqft houses. But give me something credible and I'll buy it.

 

[YZT580]

Source please.

top of my head, I told you. I guess you missed it. Plus I read the real estate and compare the house sizes with the age. Plus I was brought up in Scarborough as a baby boomer and lived in one or two. I have watched subdivisions being built and seen the average size increase proportionately with time. I can drive around the different neighbourhoods now and see the size of the house compared to the lot and I can read the advertising billboards for developments for luxury towns starting at 2000 sq. ft and detached at 2500. How many examples do you need or does it have to be a product of AI before you consider someone elses comments as being of value or perish the thought even true?

 

[MilEME09]

main street polling has the liberals just barely over 50% in BC in new poll, quick google and i believe the last time a federal party was this high was 1984

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044502057772519728

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also manufacturing sales up in feb

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044414352443514951

 

[YZT580]

Source please.

Somehow I doubt the cohort with the lowest homeownership rate is only buying 2500 sqft houses. But give me something credible and I'll buy it.

and one more unscientific observation. when a 1970s vintage house on a 60 ft. lot sells in the Golden Horseshoe area it is often torn down and replaced by either two semis at the conventional 1200 sq. ft. or by a single home that is in the neighbourhood of 2500 or greater. In both cases there is no delay in occupancy and the original house sells quickly. So someone feels it is worth the gamble in the first place and one or two others have the cash/credit to buy. House prices went sky high because there were more people looking for places to live than there were properties available. That is directly attributable to uncontrolled immigration. High development costs were also contributing factors as was simple greed on the part of the developer.