Three Darwin Awards in one day?

[flatandy]

When I stayed in Vancouver a few years ago, AirBnB was actually banned by the city although we got into one that was on the market illegally.

[voice]

Well its not banned as such, well in some respects it is, what they've done is they make you have to get a very expensive and hard to get business licence that in effect makes you subject to the same scrutiny as a hotel has to go through.

[mids]

Pushed through by big hotel chains trying to crush the competition, no doubt.

[voice]

not really, it was mostly due to so many being pushed out from the rental market as it become more profitable to use your rental property for AirBNB rather than renting it long term (Vancouver has a massive tourist industry year round cos its get everything, water sports, beaches skiing and so on), though no doubt the hotel industry had its say. Rental occupancy rates in Vancouver are almost always near capacity and it got to the sage where whole buildings were getting evicted, so called renovictions, and then rather than being put back on the market as rentals, just whet of short term rental networks such as AirANB instead. These taxes have made a possessive improvement in rental availability and also raised quite a lot for the gov who've invested in in a number of new hospitals being built over the next few years.

[perrykneeham]

It's a problem with coastal cities as, by definition, their capacity to expand away from the CBD is halved. If the CBD is say, the port, then they only have the hinterland available for development as the other side is sea.

This is also why rush-hour is such a sod in seaside towns. Dull, ain't I?

If as I suspect, Vancouver has greenbelt conditions on the city limits and/or topographic restrictions (mountains etc.) then that makes the problem worse. You can build up of course or you can build out (this is the financial case for promenades and piers) or you can build on stilts or create artificial land (it is for this reason that reclaimed or artificially-created "land" is regarded as capital and not land property.

Wow! Location/urban geography, geology and property economics in one post. My beard just got ever denser.

[flatandy]

Vancouver (like San Diego) has multiple constraints: Ocean/bay on the west, mountains on the east, and an international border to the south. Vancouver's southern border is further away, although main-Vancouver is on its own tiny island. Vancouver has mountains to the north, too - there's no coastal plain like in Southern California. San Diego meanwhile has the LA sprawl to its north constraining it.

Anyway, yeah, Vancouver's ban seems like be like ones I've seen elsewhere: the town is small and if 50% of the properties are being rented out as holiday rentals then all the fundamental character of the town vanishes, it stops being the interesting town, it ironically stops being somewhere people want to visit.

[voice]

Instant Darwin award winner

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Dumb ass

[mids]

Doesn't get much dumber.

[happyhammerhead]

Wow, man in Texas dosen't die from bullet!

[moggyonspeed]

More chlorination of the gene pool.

"Lessons learned" 'n' that.

[Psalms]

Aug 5, 2021 13:03:44 GMT flatandy said:

When I stayed in Vancouver a few years ago, AirBnB was actually banned by the city although we got into one that was on the market illegally.

I'd like to stay at an Illegal AirBnB

One in which you have to descend some back stairs and knock on a roughly painted creaky wooden door for admittance

[ootlg]

And a pair of eyes look at you from behind an iron grill with a little sliding door.

[voice]

3 in one day

"Spanish bull run: Three dead in 24 hours in Valencia hospitals - BBC News" www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62249049.amp

[ootlg]

Few realise just how agile a male bull is. They can run and jump like racehorses.

[moggyonspeed]

Bulls are great at running in a straight line but, on the whole, they don't "jink" very well but (I'm not sure about you lot) I don't have eyes in the back of my head, so when to do so is pretty much guesswork.

One a tourist and one behind a barrier, mind - sheesh.

[ootlg]

Turn on a sixpence, bulls, especially the smaller breeds like these Spanish ones.

[voice]

Don't they kill all the bulls at the end?

if they do, good on the bulls for taking a few tw@ats with em.

[ootlg]

Agreed. France has bullfighting too. If anyone did that outside of a bullring they'd be arrested and charged with cruelty.

[perrykneeham]

Jul 21, 2022 13:44:20 GMT ootlg said:

Few realise just how agile a male bull is. They can run and jump like racehorses.

I watched a deer jump a 5' fence the other day. From a standing start on the downward side of a slope. Very impressive.

[mids]

We saw a European jackal today. It ran along the road in front of us as we drove down a steep mountain road.