I live on Vancouver Island (short boat ride from Vancouver). This year I will graduate with a degree in computer science and already have a decent job working as a web developer. My wife has a well paying job with the government. We both have lots of family and friends in Vancouver but will likely never live there as we can't afford $700,000 for a starter home. Even here on Vancouver Island it seems the possibility of owning our own home is becoming unattainable as prices sky rocket. Something needs to be done about foreign investment.
I guess this happens all over the world. The rich get to live in the nicest cities and everyone else gets pushed out. I've lived here my whole life but soon I won't be able to call it home. I can't read many of the street signs in Richmond (Cantonese and Mandarin). I take the bus to University while some of my Chinese classmates drive their Maserati/Lambo/Mercedes. It feels like my home is being sold out from underneath me to the Chinese. I don't know how to solve this or even approach talking about it without offending people. Maybe I need to open my mind and not view this as a problem. But it makes me very sad to feel like I don't belong in the place where I grew up.