Car Spotting in Vancouver - 2018-06-24

"TheStiggyOne" (thestiggyone) 06/25/2018 at 15:35 • Filed to: None

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On weekends that I a m not out driving or paintballing, I would grab my DSLR and explore my city on foot. I would plan to explore a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! or a specific landmark, but for some reason or another I always bring back few pictures of cars as well. Weird how that works....

Here is the car-related collection from yesterday’s trek.

3rd-gen Mazda6

Land Rover Range Rover Velar

Mercedes-AMG GT S

Normally a white Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 does not warrant a picture... there are probably more of them here than Toyota Camrys... the house it is parked in front of, though, is assessed by the city to be worth $11,483,000

Victory Motorcycle + the front fascia of a Mercedes-Benz S-class (W221) = lots of chrome in this picture

Nibby > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 15:41

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nice ford explorer

fintail > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 15:47

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No doubt all of the money is on the up and up lol

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 15:54

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Misaligned entry door in photo one gets to me

interstate366, now In The Industry > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 15:57

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Is that...is that a palm tree?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > interstate366, now In The Industry 06/25/2018 at 15:59

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Vancouver is quite temperate, they can live up here.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 16:00

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Which neighbourhood?

Also:  https://oppositelock.kinja.com/tag/vancityoppo

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 16:22

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Good pictures! Loge the GTS. Although I can’t say I’ve ever seen someone “spot” a bone-stock Mazda6 before.

cluelessk > interstate366, now In The Industry 06/25/2018 at 17:10

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They barely have a Winter.

TheStiggyOne > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/25/2018 at 17:10

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I mostly look for architecture, because due to our getting-insane land values, old homes are getting torn down at alarming rates... so I want to keep a record. Such as this, from the same album:

However, sometimes cars get into the frame, and this is Oppo, so.... :-P

Sometimes I get interesting cars. Sometimes I get interesting neighbourhoods. Sometimes, both. Sometimes, neither. C ’est la vie!

TheStiggyOne > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 06/25/2018 at 17:19

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I’m not sure what it is called! I just headed west on 57th Avenue to the end, to visit the Shannon Estate :

Kerrisdale is to the north, Marpole to the south and east, while Southlands is to the south and west, so... dunno, lol :-P

TheStiggyOne > fintail 06/25/2018 at 17:26

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One of our specific housing issue is that, due to escalating land prices, homes are now assessed and taxed using values many times more than what the owners paid for back in the day.

So, the property values do not reflect the owners’ actual financial situation, and they derive no benefit from such valuation until they sell. And, if they sell, they are then essentially driven out of the city, because every other property have gone up as well, so even with the “windfall” they cannot afford anything else .

That $11.5mil one, though, is a new built... so yeah, no excuse there lol  

fintail > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 17:32

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No exemptions? My grandma’s house is worth dozens of times the original purchase price, but as she is in her 90s, she’s not high income, so she pays a minimal rate.

That being said, what I feel for those who hit the real estate lottery around Seattle (not as bad as Van, but trying hard) can be compared to the world’s smallest violin. People who bought when it was attainable for normal working people and now have high 6 or even 7 figures (USD) via luck don’t earn my pity.

I know a lot of property there (and here), especially relatively modern builds, are money laundering/residency purchasing vehicles, where the owners might either not care about tax, or find a loophole to avoid it.

gmctavish needs more space > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 18:12

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I’m really glad you’re getting pictures of older houses and buildings. I keep meaning to do the same thing, but I haven’t done much at all yet. I wish I’d taken more pictures around Chinatown and Powell before things started really changing. I usually poke around the more industrial areas, so I have some good stuff around Strathcona, north of Hastings, and near V enables and Parker-ish

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > TheStiggyOne 06/25/2018 at 23:27

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Starred because you expressed the date in accordance with ISO 8601. 

TheStiggyOne > Svart Smart, traded in his Smart 06/26/2018 at 02:04

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This. Is. CANADA!

*kicks Imperial units into the bottomless pit*