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canuckledragger

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9. it's happening in southern Ontario too.
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 09:24 PM
Jul 2016

In my hometown (Kingston Ontario) the ones that own and develop the real estate here are pricing the new homes they build on that land way out of the range of regular working folks here. $400,000 and up in a lot of cases.

Kingston doesn't have much of a manufacturing base anymore, and most of the jobs here for folks starting out are service industry...minimum wage and not much else, regardless of school or training. the depressed economy is why the call centers have been sniffing around here (and established a beachhead in the form of Startek and a few other others)

The only ones I know here that have homes they're not renting are the ones that had homes willed to them from their parents...that none can afford to repair.

I think it's been designed this way.

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