Dear Editor:
We came here 60-plus years ago from Alberta and found West Vancouver – a paradise – but time moves on.
All the complaints now about lack of affordable housing? Just scan the real estate section in each Friday’s North Shore News … 60 pages or so of affordable housing … priced from $2 to $21 million … and it sells!
What you really mean is: a serious lack of housing affordable to what you might call “people like us.”
If this situation continues and there is no reason to think it will not, it won’t be long before the “fat cats” will all live in the “city” and all the worker bees out in the further and further suburbs.
A local real estate agent came two months ago to tell me I was sitting on a gold mine.
When I said that it would not be long before a lot of the present old-time residents were gone from here, she said, with no trace of a smile, “yes, no more people like you!” (By which I understood her to mean: we will all have been paid to go away.)
Jas Derham-Reid
West Vancouver
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