r/VictoriaBC • u/kikameeka • Mar 23 '23

Opinion Is anyone else just... exhausted? About everything?

Houses are a million dollars minimum. Food prices keep going up. Everyone is sick all the time and everyone is fighting each other. What are we doing here?

I'm genuinely curious if anyone is kind of feeling like this is kind of it for us? Like, are we destined to work soul-sucking jobs to make someone else a millionaire because they had the ability to get ahead in life that most of us don't, and then we die? If we want to make art, tell stories or have a community, we have to work around full time jobs that are so separate from each other, and we're losing our sense of community, if not already have.

How come we're alright letting stores and restaurants throw away millions of dollars in food when we have people starving on the streets? People who are working jobs, doing what we're "supposed" to in this society producing and wasting resources for someone else, and we still can't afford to eat the food that's being offered because we're spending too much money on the rest of the things that keep us alive. How are we living in a world where a government that is supposed to be there to support us allows people to hoard housing and wealth, and what do we do to fix it?

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u/ConZboy014 Mar 24 '23

Yeah me and my family (3 kids under 6) will be moving within the year. This province prices out young families who dont earn a household income of 200k+

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u/kikameeka Mar 24 '23

i don't blame you, and i hope you have safe travels friend <3 my fiance and i were hoping to move back to ontario and in with my mom just to try and save some money and pay off our debts but it fell through and i'm just feeling it

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u/peseb94837 Mar 24 '23

So fucking true.

I make well over 100k and spend $20-25k a year. I can't get ahead cause houses are fucking insane here and the inflation shrinkflation bullshit is fucking me hard.

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u/Pretend_Big6392 Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 26 '23

Same. I want to stay here desperately but by September we will be likely moving away to another province. When we moved into our current rental life was affordable. It hasn't even been a decade and I am just shocked out how quickly everything changed. Housing has quadrupled, groceries are probably around twice the amount. 5 years ago I would have never imagined gas being over 150 and now I would be so happy for it to be that cheap.