rooftop patio with fire in the rain has greatly improved mental health. Rooftop hottub would be better but this will do for now.
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Nice View!
so great 🙂
Happy for you 🫡
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Nice setup. But I’ll tell you, our hot tub was the single worst consumer purchase I’ve ever made. Another chore a couple times a week to keep it clean and balanced, a hog on power, and built-to-fail components. We got a respected brand and I figured out that with the initial purchase, cost of borrowing, chemicals, power consumption, parts and service calls, that $13,500 tub was closer to $20k. Sure it provided some good memories and was filled a handful of times with half clad mamcitas, but the time per use averaged out to about $52 over 8 years. That would have bought a lot of Sats. Not to mention the main board completely fried literally a month after I made the last payment on it. Right now to get it functional again I’d be looking at another $3500 for a new cover, main board, Bluetooth module, pressure switch, amp, and pump reinstalls. Fiat garbage IMO.
Hey a little cold plunge might fit nice up there though!
toronto is such a terrible city. It's too crowded and dirty.
its the worst, much happier in Vancouver
oh I thought that was Toronto. All the major cities in Canada look the same, no energy.
Vancouver is just as bad. It rains too much, crowded and way overpriced. I would leave if I were you but there is really no where to go that I can recommend.
You can send your kid to study in the USA and then you can immigrate to the USA. The USA is way better and especially in weather. Hopefully Canada beocmes part of the USA in the next 20 years. It's our only hope, that and Bitcoin going to 10 million a coin so we can leave this dump of a country.
Vancouver is great
What’s so great about paying 70 cents more per litre on gas while other provinces enjoy far cheaper prices?
Then there's the cost of living in a so-called "green" city where virtue signaling often trumps practicality. Vancouver residents are constantly hit with fuel taxes, carbon levies, and congestion-related costs, all in the name of sustainability, while public transit struggles to meet real-world demand and infrastructure projects face endless delays.
Then there’s housing. Good luck owning a home unless you’re a millionaire or inherited wealth. The average detached house is well over $2 million, and even a shoebox-sized condo will drain your life savings. Meanwhile, people in other provinces get twice the space for half the price. The city’s zoning laws and bureaucratic red tape, often justified by social planning theories, make development a nightmare and do little to ease the supply crunch. Add on property taxes and endless fees, and you’re paying premium prices for a lower quality of life.
And don’t even think about driving. The roads are clogged, poorly planned, and constantly under construction. Yet the city is aggressively hostile toward drivers, bike lanes take priority, parking is a joke, and you’re penalized for owning a car in a place where you almost need one to get anything done. It's a war on convenience disguised as progressive urbanism.
In theory, socialism promises equality and fairness. In practice, in Vancouver’s case, it often translates into excessive government interference, bloated spending on symbolic projects, and policies that end up hurting the middle and working class the most. Wealthy elites still thrive, while the average citizen struggles to stay afloat.
unfortunately most of Canada is this way but Vancouver definitely tops the cake
Got to look after the mental health!
Beautiful
have you gotten the rooftop hot tub yet? I think even Coleman has inflatable ones.