Dec 15, 2023
As Real Estate Costs Soar, an Influx of Residents Is Changing My BC Town
We can’t expect others not to want what we have. And yet we do it all the time
Moving asks people to break their social ties. If you’re asking people to move to Terrace in northern BC or Fort McMurray in Alberta—wherever things are cheaper—you’re asking them to sacrifice their stability and support network. That’s hard on any family, but particularly on racialized, immigrant, or Indigenous families who may not have cultural community in other locations across the country. It’s asking households to live where capitalism tells them to live, not where the right place for them is.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
Illustration by Tallulah Fontaine (tallulahfontaine.com)
