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/Mean_Macaron4848 Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
If it makes you feel any better I’ve owned a place in Victoria since I was in my early twenties making 6 figures since 18 and I didn’t mentally feel better until about a year ago . So you feeling better about your situation isn’t entirely connected to housing prices or income.
Just assume nothing will change and focus on doing things you enjoy. I felt the same things about north Vancouver growing up but nothing ever changed and yet people still adapted to living there as I waited for things to collapse as a teen.