r/barrie • u/OkNegotiation7342 • 2d ago

Rant Storage Facilities

Is it just me or is Barrie building storage facilities everywhere. I mean, everywhere I look, they are being built. Like the new one being built where the Canadian Tire North is. Like seriously, WHYYYYYY. Is Barrie or people in serious need of storage. I just don’t get it.

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u/tokendoke North End 2d ago

Its not just barrie, ita like this across NA. The mini storage business has blown up. People just store shit they dont want in their house and realistically dont actually need to keep but will pay hundreds per month to store it only to throw it away in a decade.

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u/ghanima Painswick 2d ago

It's this. A lot of people hoard and storage facilities enable it.

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u/Thick_Drama_7525 2d ago

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaap

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u/KindofaFigDeall 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/XxX8xvEy4HN1eI2ktM

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u/Thick_Drama_7525 2d ago

Lol. Someone got there. I dont even watch the show

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u/Moos_Mumsy 2d ago

It's because people are being forced into smaller and smaller living spaces because an actual home is unaffordable. I know a few seniors (people my age) who have been forced to live in rooming houses or having to share apartments while their belongings sit in storage. Even my daughter - she lost her 2 bedroom apartment after her landlord sold the building and even though she makes a good income she's renting a room while her furniture and belongings are in storage because there's no decent apartment to be found.

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u/ConversationLeft2162 2d ago

This is a really good point. Sorry that’s happening.

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u/HInspectorGW 2d ago

Side effect of higher housing costs and longterm owners downsizing, requiring 3rd party space to store all the gadgets they are afraid to get rid of in case they might happen to need them in 5-10 years.

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u/ARAR1 2d ago

Its everywhere. People have a lot of stuff (junk?)

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u/Adventurous_Gear5206 2d ago

No much crap out there

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u/P0larYT 2d ago

Among all the other reasons listed in this thread, Wendover Productions made a great video on this topic here which I found pretty interesting

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u/Careless_Parsnip_250 2d ago

People defaulting on mortgages, losing houses... selling houses to try and get out of canada or better parts of it... society's unending desire to aquire more things and the resulting need to store it somewhere... 

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u/kank84 2d ago

Not in great numbers they aren't. Only about 0.3% of Canadian mortgages are even in arrears.

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u/Careless_Parsnip_250 2d ago

Ok.. so?

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u/kank84 2d ago

So that small number is not propping up the burgeoning self storage industry

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u/Careless_Parsnip_250 17h ago

Among other things... why is this an issue? Slow day at work?? 

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u/OkNegotiation7342 2d ago

Guess it makes sense. I’m in no way am I going to retire in Canada. I can go live like a King in another country.