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Is the Era of Rising Real Estate Prices Over?

May 6, 2009

in Get the Facts

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Excerpt: When I first moved to Calgary to work in the oil and gas industry in early 2006, it was right around the top of the property boom, and affordable housing was next to impossible to find.  Not wanting to shell out half my salary for an apartment, and spending months to fill it up with furniture, I decided to go the room rental route. Little did we know at the time, but towards the end of 2006, the market was slowly but surely moving from sellers’ to one that favoured buyers.  Ones in the know, i.e. people with family members…

The Social Construction of Gen Y

May 1, 2009

in Social Trends & Investment

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Excerpt: A couple of days ago, a fellow blogger commented on this rather unfortunate Fortune article on his blog.  It is interesting for several reasons. First, the ideas are cookie-cutter and stale.  Us Gen Yers had been told (to a certain extent) that we were on the cusp of a great demographic shift, where baby boomers’ impending departure would wreak havoc on corporate health.  True, some of us were led to believe that our contribution would be valued at a premium, which would in turn translate into lots of choices and result in us hopping through the corporate environment at break-neck speed. …