The house has so many design and decor cues from the house/neighborhood I grew up in in Redmond, WA. I wonder if there's a name for that design movement of orange carpet, wood panelling, wallpaper, linoleum, popcorn ceilings...
Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
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#52I can see why it's being taken care of. A town with Tide Water access on Canada's west coast could be very very valuable.
Also given the state of global warming... Something still coastal but further up north could prove to be quite desirable in the future climate-wise...
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#53BC in the 80s, 90s seemed like completely different worlds compared to today. Vancouver especially seemed to have peaked early 2000s before the housing bubble took off. Rainforest Cafe, Playdium, Indy 500, Vancouver Grizzlies, Canucks. It had so much going for it. What was once a fun, soulful city is now something completely different.
BC was altered considerably by a series of economic crisis in the 90s; notably the softwood lumber dispute, the opening of raw log exports, the salmon fishery dispute, and the asian economic crisis. All told, they had the cumulative effect of shifting BC's economy away from lumber and fisheries and toward tourism and real estate.
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#54What a beautiful place...
> everyone was ordered to leave town.
Hmm well that seems to be the problem. A shame it wasn't allowed to grown on it's own and then maybe something would have come of it... Weird that it's private property, that is a bit creepy.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the italics on 'closely'?
Everyone's related to everyone else if you go back far enough. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt turned out to be sixth (-ish?) cousins.
Okay, but if someone asks if you have any relatives in town, you probably don't need to mention that technically everyone is related. You definitely don't need to also mention that the geese are also distant relatives.
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#56I just emailed them asking if they are doing anything with it. They responded and sent me here: http://www.kitsaultenergy.com/index.html
This is so weird and creepy, I just applied!
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#57I missed the "1980s" part at first and expected an article about Google's panopticon-town. What ever happened to that?
Project was abandoned supposedly due to COVID but possibly that was just a convenient excuse. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250594/alphabet-sidewalk...
It's mostly local opposition, it wasn't really popular within the city and Google was horrible at trying to communicate what they really wanted to do with that place. At the end of the day, giving so much power to develop a part of the city to a private entity was weird.
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#58The house has so many design and decor cues from the house/neighborhood I grew up in in Redmond, WA. I wonder if there's a name for that design movement of orange carpet, wood panelling, wallpaper, linoleum, popcorn ceilings...
Yeah, this kind of split-level design was super common in the PNW and 1980s isn't even particularly old when it comes to housing (plenty of houses in the Seattle metro area that are from the '20s...).
Like here's a random listing from 30 seconds of searching that has light renovations: https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/10201-23rd-Ct-SW-98146/hom... and if you spend enough time looking for "affordable" options in suburbs, it's not hard to find ones that have not been renovated since they were built in the '70s and '80s.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone's related to everyone else if you go back far enough. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt turned out to be sixth (-ish?) cousins.
Okay, but if someone asks if you have any relatives in town, you probably don't need to mention that technically everyone is related. You definitely don't need to also mention that the geese are also distant relatives.
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#60Looking at the map I only just noticed how small the BC coastline is and how Alaska takes most of it. Looks like it goes back to agreement between England and Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg_(18... And there were never more than 700 Russians in Alaska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_America#Sale_of_Alaska...
I believe BC has more coastline than every U.S. state other than Alaska, so don't feel too bad about it.