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All Canada not only Vancouver it’s very isolated.\nPeople can’t afford to buy a house because the house marketing is 3 times the price compared to USA. The houses have shitty materials compared to my original country, and you simply can’t built by your own and that’s why every price rises.\nAnother issue you didn’t mention it’s there is no scholarships, it’s incredible expensive to get a proper education like university, and even so, they no offered scholarships. In Mexico almost everyone can reach the opportunity to study to be anything (lawyers, doctors) AND there is why you can get professional services everywhere. Here in Canada the business never have profesional services (like a real Human Resources, who studies for 5 years to be the best influence in a company, or a real engineering taking care of the machines in a plant. Canada only hire the cheap hand to avoid paying and I can understand it, but if more people could study more money moves in the country.\nAnother issue is there is not any public transportation into the cities or provinces, so if you don’t have a car, a driver license (it’s not easy to get one) and pay the super expensive insurance (it’s incredible 10 times more expensive than in Mexico) your can’t move from the place you are. Because of the weather you simply can’t move in a bike.\nPeople live just for pay rent, buy some groceries and buy some pre owned cloths in the thrift store.\nAnother problem it’s many rules to open a small bussines (like selling some food) \nHealth care it’s not exactly free: you need to pay for your prescriptions out of the hospital or if you never been hospitalized. And it’s very expensive to pay for them. You have to wait (to be true emergencies are different, they are good on that) you have to wait like 12-24 months to get an appointment with a specialist (gynecologist, etc) dental is not covered. \n\nExcuse my English I know it’s not very good but I love your video and I had to left my comments

He didn’t wakes up early in the morning to start work at 6 o’clock or even 3:30 and what ever get paid will go to rent one bedroom 1300$ a month! !?

Don’t come to Vancouver Canada to study unless your family is rich. I run a rental business here and LOTs of international students either live in basements or struggle hard to come up with rents. I don’t blame them cuz this city is hell EXPENSIVE. Also even if you get a degree from UBC you are gonna get a job as a bank teller that pays like $16/hr if lucky. People suffer from seasonal depression for about 4-5 months/year. Better just stay in your country if it is not in the war zone and has relatively good health care system. If you can succeed in Canada you can do it in your home country. Not trying to discourage anyone but just wanna help people make rational decisions?

Where can I get room on rent in or near halifax for around $400 as I'm coming next year there from India as student.

Quick fix: Remove rent control and build houses. It's called capitalism. Supply and demand.

They don’t want you to own a home. They want to own the companies who own the houses, who you rent from lol

wished he never lived \nid be non homeless or not renting

Facts are in 2021 Canada welcomed over 400 thousand new permanent residents. We printed over 400 billion dollars in the last two years. The average time for a permit to build a new house is over 6 months. What I don’t understand is that we welcomed all the new immigrants while in a housing crisis if a hotel is full do they still keep renting rooms? We printed 400 billion dollars to pay for Covid where if we would have just used masks and washed our hands we could have saved 400 billion dollars. With Canada having one of the world’s lowest population to land mass and tons of natural resources I can’t understand how we can’t cut costs shorten wait times on permits.

Rent to own? So pay more $ but yet i got declined from cmhc because i was 1% over my debt ratio!!!! Screw the government!!!!!

I'm looking to rent vacant office space in a commercial area of NYC.

Justin.. justin... just tell the truth. It’s impossible for youngs to buy South of Nunavut if they don't have access to BANK OF DAD. \nI am 36 and managed to get a decent house for 291k in the montreal suburbs 3 years ago. \nIt took me and my wife 8 years of savings while renting an appartment to FINALLY get the MINIMUM down payment. \nAs soon as the pandemic started it was already impossible for others that did not buy in time. There was like 60 buyers for every seller. I was just lucky. \nThe current rate at which you can save VS the current rate at which houses go up ? The only way for a young, would be to live in this truck while working for a gold mine.

I can’t even move out without working over time 70 hours a week to meet the 30% on rent rule.

Rent to own and you'll own nothing and you'll be happy! \nElitist Dictator, self entitled, suffering from Narcisstic psychopathy!

In my family, we make more than 5x what our parents did, yet they own a home and we never will. I'm with the kid, LAUGHING at the insanity of the housing market. There's also plenty of homes available... my friends own 5-10 houses between them and rent them all out for example. Because the system made it trivial to do so with HELOCs on invisible money.

I have been to many different countries. Seems people pay rents or mortage and only go in the house to sleep in many countries. Families all live nearby. Being a single parent here is a hard life. Even family wont help you much of the time. In countries I have visited..most life seems to happen outside, groups of people outside talking or walking around, lots of life and activity. The USA is the land of the lonely, broken families and people strung out on drugs or drunk. If you are not watching your child, they can be kidnapped. Many people dont allow their kids to roam around alone. I crave to go to other countries and enjoy. I love the USA, dont get me wrong. Saturday nights here, Tucson, 1000s of people are partying downtown.. so there are things people do communally here, partying is one of them. Some sporting events as well.. huge crowds of people go to various sporting events, football, basketball, baseball and hockey are the main ones.

There's places where people are friendly and people exercise in public trails.....the rent is about $3000 monthly for a 1 bedroom apartment.

What the heck is he talking about??? His kids will never have that problem. What does he knows about paying hydro, rent, 1bed room basement apartment $1.800.00 a month, mortgage now goes around $5.000.00/month, price of groceries and gas...he doesn't know his pants from his ass. I get in a terrible mood listening to him, I don't have kids but I feel so sorry for this young couples trying to start a family. \nYou know how sometimes we wish to be young again? Honestly not on this times...

\\\\\\.../// I don't want to beg on the street. I need two electric tools for woodworking if anyone buys me these tools I will pay in some installments, after Corona my wife and I lost our jobs, for the last two years I am making pots and woodcrafts selling them. , I have gangrene due to sugar and I have wounds on my body, anyone who wants to see my wounds can contact me, I can not afford house rent, medicine with the education of three daughters, I will be grateful. For them, Lahore lives in Pakistan, Jazakullah, /////,

The fellow this fella works for just wants you RENT EVERY THING & OWN NOTHING! Therefore filling a very small number of Billionaires pockets.?

Block parties, cook outs, neighborhood meetings, bus trips to the beaches, weddings and Saturday clean ups were all apart of our past community's. Yes some still exist. However, anytime Blacks in America have demanded equity, justice, education, health rights, human rights, and fair housing, we are met often with a back lash. Suddenly, rents go up. Houses have doubled or tripled in increase. Crime waves have made it almost impossible for people to come out and relax freely. Political changes have also played a major roll. Neighborhoods have been redlined. Even where one goes to vote has been moved. White racism and fear, entire industry's have moved put of key areas. So thete is a natural break down. Neighborhood meets come to a end and different organizations from schools, to planting trees to parking all get affected due to such changes. Local small businesses that knew each family members also close up and leave. Its not a question of oh you have everything you need in your American house. That is not it! Its more complex. The lack of kids playing out front or the older ladies keeping watch have disappeared also due to no rent control policies.

you are so true, I was born in the US and lived here my whole life and people are very selfish here and it is very lonely and now days it's so expensive the a verage worker can not even afford to rent a basic apartment in a city

The young framers that build those house can't even afford a car and rent

Doesn't help tenants who are facing exorbitant rent increases that are breaking their backs right now. Why would anyone have any hope of owning when landlords (e.g. in Ontario where the lion's share of Canadians reside) are allowed to take tenants for all they have?

Well, I know it's a video from 6 years ago, but I have a question about the apartment rent. Were their credit score the same? Cuz the rental price may vary based on their credit score.

He doesn't care.. look at this fool. Listen to the answer.. there will be no help.. you will rent for the rest of their lives. That's what he wants.

I expected him to call you a racist and walk out of the room. Gawd I cant even stand to hear him speak. Rent to own programs? C'mon we need a government that will do better. I can't believe I voted for him 2 elections ago. ?\n\nDid he get filler in his cheeks?

They can just rent from a foreign student owner, and they will be happy ?

Renting to own is a joke

Your kids will be renting from Klaus

Quietly homeownership will disappear over the next 25-50 yrs. Big business will own most homes in big city. The rich will make sure they have control more and more, farmers will lease/rent the land and homes will be rented. Only big business will be able to pay the maintenance and taxes on buildings and land soon and also right it off. Just wait until the next big recession when many lose pensions, jobs, investments, and bitcoin crashes. Not only will it be dual income families instead of single income nowadays…it will be 2 families in homes, quadruple income and working until they are 65 or even 70….trudeau smiles and pretends he will fix everything while Canadians suffer more and more. If you have a chance to sell and then buy in a safer community, do it now because if you have not noticed a lot more homeless and vanlifers yet, or occupied camper trailers in friends and families driveways then you will notice soon, try and buy where crime is less of an issue while homes are easy to buy and sell.

Conservatives are all about free enterprise. Isn't this free enterprise ? Doug Ford removed rent control on all new rental unit's as of Nov 2018 , increasing demand when there is a shortage of housing. Not too bright.

Bla bla bla rent to own kinda like here is a carrot but you will never own. The government will collect the rent

Europe same story! Mass immigration, sky high rents,unemployment, no social life! High rate of suicide!

Look at SMIRK ON JT FACE. !!! WHY WILL HE NOT ADMIT HE CAUSED IT WITH ALL THE IMMIGRANTS HE BROUGHT IN COSTING MAJOR BILLIONS C\n TO tax payers@!! 75% don't even work. Live in low cost housing. Jt created this mess in housing with inflation. Costs of building supplies r 3X higher than 2 yrs ago. Oh yes. Says ppl can rent to buy condos near transit areas. Oh really ??? Don't believe a dam thing he says!!!

This guy is something else. Rent to own? I have nothing against immigration but housing can’t keep up with new Canadians? I forgot drama class was a free credit in high school ☹️

Dont you know you will own nothing and be happy and you be renting from him and his liberal buddies, they are already buying realstate so nice of them ?

0:00 His 25 year old son is living at home by choice. Why doesn't he just move out and rent an apartment?

Maybe the government should do something about all the short-term rentals that are everywhere. Investors are buying up homes and setting up AirBNB's in them instead of long-term renters. Less homes for families to rent drives up the rental fee's landlords can charge.

I am from Pakistan. Studied and lived in USA for over 10 years. Don't know where my time has gone so fast. Life is very busy in usa (I lived in Chicago, Denver, Orange County, CA and LA. People have to work two jobs to ends meet. Most people have to share housing...that really sucks. Constant expense (rent or mortgage payments are so high people have to constantly work. Whatever time people get they run chores and stay home and chill. You see ultra rich or people on welfare having fun at the beach. I have had a very close friend from pakistan came to usa same time as I did. we both never had enough time to meet up on regular basis. even when we met we had so many things in back of our minds running. I had couple of girlfriends (of course at different times) but they had other boyfriends at the same time. And number one thing they had on their mind is was get money from you. What you wear and drive is what you are. People consider you obsolete if you wear non branded shoes or older models of branded shoes. I traveled extensively in the US and Canada. But in East Europe like Romania and Poland I found people very friendly. Now I am back in pakistan facing basic problems like traffic jams, noisy honking streets and so on but for some reason i feel worriless and relax. whenever i go out, people start to talk to you and you feel like home. everyone is super friendly and is available for help. however you cant really trust people with money though. hahahha. After living in USA for so long I do really miss many things about it though. the efficient system is definitely a big plus. and i have realized that some times i like being all alone for extensive period of times. but knowing that i can meet up anyone any time gives me peace of mind. i have realized hard way that man made martials can amuse you to some extent only. you need live beings are you.

I wished there were more videos like this one. When it comes renting its just unbelievable how hard is to get renting when you are black women and Muslims. My stories will shocked the World if I tell how I was treated when I was looking for an apartment for rent. So sad

Quebec is a very interesting province. I would have to say that the rents in Montreal have increased and the political situation is almost dictator like.

Oh yes they got fuckt now they going to work for rest of ther life's per Chek to pay chek pay rent an food they are so fuckt they going to be sorry idiots

I'm from Ontario but live in Quebec for most of my life. I wonder where you got the cheap rents in Montreal, I always hear about how expensive the apartments are over there.

I would dispute the cost of living argument putting Quebec at #1. I'm from there, and in Quebec, you have extremely high tax rates, almost no social services (since the health care system started imploding in the 90s and has the only such system in Canada that is almost completely non-transportable across provinces as Quebec refuses to pay anyone else or delays payment for so long, other provinces give up). Daycare workers don't even make minimum wage, the education system is heavily politicized and extremely poor (far too many teachers who couldn't care less about their students and do little work), rents are quite high in most cities, especially when you couple them with the high tax rates and the infrastructure is among the worst in North America. There are good points about Quebec, but I put it about on par with Montana or Alabama for what it offers the population, compared to costs. And then there's the wonderfully racist and nationalist government that feels it's a crime to wear a scarf.

“Very cheap rents in Montréal”\n??? Somebody’s misinformed here??‍♀️

I would invite people to not believe the part about quebec. The rent in montreal is becoming more and more expensive and the populations is very unhappy to live in this shitty province

There's another, much bigger reason which is housing. Housing is one of the most expensive in the world here, both if you buy or rent. Average house price in Canada is around $800K, Toronto and Vancouver is over $1.2 Million.

We all colored.welthy powerful brother disowned me for renting home place to different color..made my life hell now starting with my kids...Looking for mentor and move kids for away.Martin Luther King word are giving me courage.There comes a time when silents become betrayed

Are you kidding? I live in Montreal, quebec and oh boy you are wrong about the rent. Its not affordable at all .. montreal is really expensive and many people are getting out of montreal , especially quebecor and they go in regions where its less expensive. But i don't really like montreal , but quebec in general is really amazing to live in. Great jobs opportunities, great school system, great food, healthcare however should improve more, but its fine for the most part. Quebec is an amazing province. Come and live here!!