Re: OT: Vancouver BC - who can afford to move THERE?

On 1/8/25 2:59 AM, Chud McCobson wrote:

On Dec 21, 2024, Tom Elam wrote
(in article <vk79nm$6qc3$1@dont-email.me>):
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A few years back Alan Baker claimed

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How long have you guys been going back and forth calling each other liars.
Years? Decades? This beef is massive. Do you know what’s also massive? The
low-taper fade meme. Get a life. Watch Pretty Cure.

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The usual pattern is that Tommy trolls with some "dig" at someone.
Naturally, the options are to simply ignore, or to fire back.
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This "housing" based troll from Tommy is an old retread. He's a
longtime resident in an inexpensive suburbia area, so its not hard to
have a decently sized place due to its low $/sqft, so it becomes his
basis to claim he's living in a Disneyland paradise and no one else can
come close.
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Of course there's many other metrics besides cost per square foot of
housing, case in point:
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"A new study by WalletHub has found that New Jersey is the 3rd happiest
state in the country.
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The study compared the 50 states using factors such as mental health,
divorce rates, and finances.
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Hawaii ranked first in the study, followed by Maryland. Utah came in
fourth, while Delaware rounded out the top 5. Louisiana ranked last."
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<https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-ranked-3rd-happiest-state-in-the-coun
try>
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Of course, to find where Indiana ranked, go find the original:
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<https://wallethub.com/edu/happiest-states/6959>
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And we see that Indiana is way down in 36th place, with a score of
45.92. That's a ~15 point deficit vs a Top 5 for happiness, which also
serves to help explain Tommy's trolls' underlying jealousy of others.
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-hh