I think it's their crazy common law system.
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The other way you could interpret this is that so many people want to live in these amazing countries that it's outpacing home construction. I would like to see this compared to net migration and/or population growth.
Net migration rate is 3 per 1000 people in the US and 3.2 in the UK. Germany has a net migration rate of 1.8 per 1000, France 1.1, and every other Western European country has at least 3.5. Also Germany and France both have a higher percentage of their population being immigrants than both the US and UK. So that's definitively not it.
In Canada that's what it was. They seriously curtailed immigration with the new government, which is starting to lower home prices. It's not sunshine and rainbows though, we needed those immigrants to plug the labour hole the boomers left. Coupled with the tariffs and market incertainty, Canada is in an unofficial recession already.
Carney only became PM in March. Where are you seeing statistics of a large decrease in net migration since then?
No interest in letting in more tradespeople to buff up the construction industry?
Apparently not. Personally I thought they should have tried to get more tradespeople, but here we are.
It's not labor that's the problem, it's materials and transportation. I guess everyone just forgot about the fucking trade war
More tradespeople to build firetrap bungalow sprawls is how we get bankrupt munis like Detroit and not sustainable walkable subway utopias like Manhattan.
You really think that's what's happening?
How do people come up with such ridiculous drivel...
Yes, that's definitely part of it. It's not perfect, but if you think the English speaking world is a disaster you should try living in a developing country.
I have done mission work in Africa and South America, their family cultures are more intact than the west. Sure the governments are more fucked but we're heading there at a rapid pace
But we don't have the family unity or social cohesion to band together against fascism right now, so in many ways our situation is worse than any but the most warlord aggrieved countries.