Comments by "Devil\x27s Offspring" (@devilsoffspring5519) on "The Plain Bagel" channel.

As a 46 y.o. Canadian, the one thing I absolutely CANNOT get over is that to have a generic, boring, run-of-the-mill life in Canada, you have to be wealthy. I've felt that way about my stupid country for almost 40 years now.
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@tonycrabtree3416 In Canada you mean? It's not free, it's extremely expensive. It's just that in Canada it's publicly funded so everyone pays the same out of taxes. That way, if you have an injury you don't go bankrupt.
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@waffles1ca That's cool if your life turned out that way but I grew up being gangstalked and physically tortured by corrupt police. So, my life has been absolute living fucking hell and I detest living in Canada, not that I've ever lived anywhere else. I'm glad you're well though.
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Houses in Canada are like exotic cars. If you can't afford two of them, then you can't afford one.
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@rayoflightcanada I can't believe how many up-votes I'm getting on this one post. I currently have 162 Likes and it's rising. I didn't think Canada even had that many people living in it! :) hehehe
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@indrinita That's getting pretty common here from what I understand. Actually, when I was a little kid about 40 years ago, a psychologist explained to me that one of the universal marks of a truly successful Canadian is that... They aren't Canadian anymore. They move to the United States.
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@hammothw4814 Sure, if you're an only child and your parents croak young and leave you all their bread. Degreed professionals in Canada that have no kids and a dual income take more like 20 years to pay for a small house, maybe 30+ if they actually want to have a life sometimes. I served a trade apprenticeship right out of high school and saved as much as I could. I had almost no life outside of work and lived fairly cheap with my parents. It would have taken me decades to pay for a tiny house and I live in a little hickie burg, not Toronno!
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A house is just a physical thing like any other. If the value goes up, you can make money off of it. Beats the fuck out of spending your entire life doing nothing but working, you're just going to grow old and die anyway. The point is to get wealthy when you're YOUNG, not when you're old.
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People need a place to live though, renting fucking sucks because it's a waste of time and a waste of life. You spend decades working and don't even own the light switches.
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It doesn't matter how cheap and abundant the materials are, that's not what determines how much something costs. Its market forces that determine pricing, not the cost of producing something.
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@huskavarnapunkband I always wanted to go to the USA but I'm much too poor. I was also tortured by corrupt police when I was a kid so I can't function worth a damn. The police have been waiting for me to kill myself for well over 30 years. Yeah, Canadians seldom have hobbies and interests, they mostly work like dogs and have kids, that's a normal life here. Oh yeah, and buying consumer shit and having a MOUNTAIN of debt!
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@jameswilliams3304 You mean Canadians? Hehehe yeah, houses, schools and hospitals are the THREE things that Canadians actually give a fuck about. What else is there to life? You go to school, then you get a house, then you go to the hospital. What else is there? The crazy part is a lot of Canadians are quite intelligent but they still do little with their lives except work. Tons and tons of Canadians have university degrees, it's supposed to make them better than anyone else. TWENTY YEARS of schooling just to be a working stiff with bills, debt, consumer crap and tedious bullshit, you must be fucking joking.
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@vistagreat9994 Even younger than that, corrupt police broke into the house just before I started Kindergarten and tortured the fuck out of me. They did it again when I was 11 years old back in 1988. I have been dysfunctional ever since. Police in Canada are totally fucked, it's a job for narcissists and antisocial people. Canada is a developing country, we're basically a terrorist state with really expensive civil infrastructure that gives us the false appearance of a modern, developed country.
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@Darin.Pearson Yes!!! Somebody gets it! I wish more Canadians (and Americans!) would understand that. It's not "free" you dumbasses, it's really expensive and you WORK for it!
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@DoritoBot9000 When a German lays off the alcohol, you KNOW shit's fucked up. It's almost as serious as Russians quitting drinking
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@BM1982.V2 If you're really in dire need, quit your job and go on welfare. You'll qualify for pills/dental/health shit and once the health problem has been resolved you look for a job again. Never done it myself but I've heard of it.
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@Chosen_Ash I can't believe how many people agree with me on this and how many upvotes I've gotten on this one post. Life in Canada is too fucking expensive and that's that. Ontario isn't even supposed to be the worst, I've never lived in B.C. but I've heard it's both lovely and awful, just like California. It's probably worse in some other parts of the world, too!
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@rustystove8410 Never had a cricket burger, I'm partial to cow. Borrowing money never got anybody out of poverty, it just moves the debt to the whole country instead of the people that are busy racking it up. So, they have no motivation to work harder (or smarter) and just keep having more kids, and now you have more poor people.
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@johng4093 If you have to pay for your own health insurance, how do you afford to enjoy trivial luxuries like food and rent? Life isn't all about hard work and paying bills you know, you gotta live it up sometime to make all that effort feel worthwhile. I'm Canadian and wouldn't want to go without heat, for example. I'm accustomed to the luxurious lifestyle in a country where everything's FREE because the government pays for everything and you can live the high life without ever having to work. Food, a roof, HEAT, and even hospitals! What else is there, really?
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@matrix4458 Sounds like good advice :)
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Probably the biggest problem is that Canadians will pay ANYTHING for a damned house. I don't know what life is like in other countries, but I have always noticed from a very young age that for Canadians having a house is often considered to be the ultimate end-all-to-be-all of the human life experience. Damned if I know why. I don't want to sleep on the sidewalk or live in a shitty apartment surrounded by drug dealers and stalkers, but there is MUCH more to being alive than having a fucking house! Just not if you're Canadian.
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@jameswilliams3304 I've always felt that Canada suffers from a lack of will to live. I'm not sure why, other than the obsession with school and the astronomically high cost of living--a problem that Americans deal with too. Modern day life is too damned expensive to be worth the aggravation.
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@Teyros I'm 46 and long ago gave up on owning my own tiny little house to fulfill my desire to go back to playing musical instruments, which I cannot do while living with my parents because it will piss them off. Here I am at 46, still living at home with my parents. It sucks and it's depressing as all fuck, but if I'm not going to do what I love with my life I'll be fucked if I'm going to work hard. Especially not just for a stupid fucking house!
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Blackout_CDXX I would have loved to, I always wanted to as a kid but don't have the means. Life in the USA is exorbitantly expensive too.
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I grew up in a tiny little house in Quebec, just southwest of Montreal. My parents paid 36 grand for it in the late '70s! 36 THOUSAND BUCKS for a house to live in. Detached house too, none of this townhouse bullshit where you have to be silent all the time so you don't piss your neighbours off. 36 thousand bucks today barely gets you an ordinary car, never mind a house!
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I know, I'm 46 y.o. now and I still think that $120,000 is a REALLY expensive house! Goes to show you how out-of-the-loop I am. Fuck Canada.
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Fuck off, Canadians are assholes
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If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Small towns in Canada are extremely expensive too.
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@noahremnek3615 "Free healthcare, free college and free public transportation are all basic human rights in Canada" NO THEY ARE NOT. In Canada healthcare is publicly funded. Public transit is both tax-funded and paid for by the people that use it (fares.) College/university are NOT entirely publicly funded. They are very expensive here and are only partially paid for by taxes. What makes people like you think that everything in Canada is "free"? It's an EXTREMELY expensive place to live.
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No shit, Canadians with 6-figure incomes still take 30+ years to pay for an average house.
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Houses are terrible for that, they're even worse than old cars. You need a place to live, but in Canada? Good luck affording a LIFE if you have a house and don't clear 100 grand a year and come from a family with big money.
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