Canadian Dream

[Sporadica]

It's like the American Dream just with smarte money management and less borrowing XD

I have a legitimate question though.

I'll describe my town. A rich town, in top 5 of richest per capita in all of Canada also most dense. All the houses built after 1990 look the same, average house price is $450,000 give or take and there are about 58k people.

There are around 30+ places that sell cigarettes, about 20+ restaurants that serve alcohol, and about 15 liquor stores, all give or take a few.

There is a businessman who wants to open a shop that sells pipes and t-shirt/blankets etc, all relating the marijuana but he never mentions it and he sells them for tobacco use only (as not to be charged with drug paraphernalia) and the mayor of my town essentially blocked his business license by convincing the other people in the strip mall to appeal his license.

My city is a place where if your property is the least bit "unattractive" the neighbors can call and the city will fine you and come in without a warrant and remove what they please because the place doesn't look up to the cities standards.

My question is do you think that this man should be allowed to set up a moke shop? Everything he is selling is legal and he ID's people when they come in the door (at hi previous location which also got shut down by the mayor)



PS he is planning to sue the mayor, hit him where it hurts, his wallet lol.

[CaptainObvious]

I'll describe my town. A rich town, in top 5 of richest per capita in all of Canada also most dense. All the houses built after 1990 look the same, average house price is $450,000 give or take and there are about 58k people.

"town" and "most dense" are kind of an oxymoron. that's a bit like being the tallest midget, since by definition towns are not at all dense.

additionally, the richest people in Canada tend to live in big cities, not in suburban towns like in america. $450k is not a particularly high average home price; for the entire city of toronto the number is ~$430k average, including all the shitty areas.

anyways, to the actual question, i hope he sues the shit out of the mayor since it sounds like a more or less baseless ban. that said, bylaws are a bitch, so who knows if he'll succeed.

[Sporadica]

anyways, to the actual question, i hope he sues the shit out of the mayor since it sounds like a more or less baseless ban. that said, bylaws are a bitch, so who knows if he'll succeed.

true that.

Also in my town i looked more into the real estate prices, $300k is minimum (give or take a few thousand) and the most expensive I found was $2.5mil

also this charity lottery for cancer kids is actually raffling a grand prize of $2mil in for of a $1.5mil house and 500k cash

[CaptainObvious]

true that.

Also in my town i looked more into the real estate prices, $300k is minimum (give or take a few thousand) and the most expensive I found was $2.5mil

also this charity lottery for cancer kids is actually raffling a grand prize of $2mil in for of a $1.5mil house and 500k cash

well... let's put it this way, it's tough to get a reasonably-sized house for <$1M in the part of toronto where i live, and a quick mls search of the neighborhood turns up houses into the 3s, which doesn't include any of the biggest properties i know of.

and mine's not even some ridiculously nice part of the city, either. :P

*edit* for comparison, in one of the city's more prestigious neighborhoods, mls listings i can find are in the 2-12 range, mostly.

*edit2* haha, found a house on mls that belonged to the family of a guy i know from high school for 26.8. this website is amusing. :P