I’ve been using the internet since it started. Up until the past few years I could generally find a reliable answer to my question quite easily. Now there’s so much absolute garbage on there that finding genuine information is so difficult and time consuming that I’d prefer having the old encyclopedias we used to have. Modern search engines need some type of purge to weed out the billions of bits of conversations and opinions so that we can find actual researched sources. Sure, I know that as new information is learned that what we once thought was true is later found to be false, but what we have now is just crap.

My father and mother worked retail jobs and were able to afford a house in East Vancouver purchased in 1983 for $83,000. Their interest rate was around 12.5%. I make $120,000/year and my wife makes $70,000/year and we can afford a three bedroom townhouse in Coquitlam with our two kids. We are by no means living extravagantly. We have two vehicles and live well below our means. Its just different nowadays. The cost of housing, daycare, and food are just through the roof. I am tired of the older generations continuing this rhetoric of our generation being lazy and spending our money on fancy coffees and avocados.

What do you do when you spend years clearing your name to false allegations against a person in trust. When you spend upwards of $10k on legal bills to navigate the system. When you spend close to 2 years of anxiety and stress slowly navigating the various legal avenues. Then the day(s) come when every legal victory is yours. In todays culture of being a victim in order to validate harming others the way they've harmed you, it would've been easy for me to go that route. To be filled with anger. Hate. To be a perpetual victim. As I stand atop this mountain, I am filled with empathy. There are no gold stars or money or retribution for overcoming false claims, there is only you facing your mirror knowing you overcame someone else shitty behaviour. And that's enough for myself.

I graduated from highschool in 1985 and started working for the Government immediately. I didn't make a lot of money but saved enough to buy a very old house in East Vancouver for $90,000 which was a lot of money in those days. With my wife we raised 4 children and paid for their university educations. You never heard anyone in my generation complaining about the high price of housing. We just worked and worked and worked some more. Young people need to stop complaining about the housing situation and just put their heads down and work.

I hope someday they make a lifetime TV movie about the Surrey police transition. Boy, wha a circus that turned out to be! Now, all we need’s to audition actors to play Brenda Locke, Doug McCallum, Mike Farnworth, David Eby, Wally Opal and so on, etc. This will definitely go down in the history books.

Comments like I'm tired of men wanting to be women, wearing makeup and appearing edgy. It's sad that there's judgment and homophobia underneath your surface.

My health hasn’t been too good lately and sometimes, I’m not sure if I’ll even make it past my 40s. If let’s say, I die of a heart attack peacefully in my sleep, then so be it. I honestly don’t like the idea of getting old and gray, because that’s when the body starts to turn wrinkly and ugly. And I don’t like the idea of laying in a hospital bed with tubes up my nose or something like that. If I’m destined to leave this planet, then I’d rather go peacefully in my sleep. So be it then. Nope, it’s not suicidal ideations or anything.

I hit retirement age a couple of years ago. Found out I have a terminal illness and decided to change how I live. I moved somewhere very warm all year with beautiful beaches. Got rid of my car. Started walking a lot. Eat less. No Alcohol. Less TV and internet. No social media. Etc. I feel amazing! I wish I had done this sooner lol.

I admit that I absolutely hate how certain groups are trashing our beautiful city with all their sticky posters . Why do you insist on making this beautiful city look like a third world country ?

Not going to spend any more time complaining to Translink about my overcrowded bus route. Overcrowding is happening on a lot of buses throughout the lower mainland and nothing is getting done. Just all talk and no action. Even if you complain to a customer service agent and they pass it on there’s really nothing they can do. The agents have no control over what the higher-ups do. They basically just get paid to sit in a call centre, give directions and listen to your problems over the phone. I’m done.