https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/k7x909/moving_from_vancouver/
Vancouver is driving us insane - the traffic, busyness (3 ski resorts sold out this weekend, parking lots to nature full), petty crime, coldness, unfriendlyness from people and $2k rent for 1 bedroom. We don't seem to fit in here and peoples attitudes reflect that. We don't want this rat race. (...)
Our concerns are mainly focused on the current Alberta government. We don't align with their healthcare, social security or conservation beliefs. The worry is the future of Alberta beyond the next election. It seems majority of this subreddit has the same sentiment.
Australian couple moving from BC to AB is afraid of conservative policies. Like Californians moving to Texas, they'll keep voting for the same trash that created the problems they're running away from.
Unless The Tories address the housing affordability issue and the loss of Canadian jobs, good luck ever beating the Liberals in a political election. At this point Liberal rule may be perpetual.
You can kick and scream about not wanting to help the poors but you're losing at the polls. You don't really have a choice. The only time the Tories ever win is when moderate liberals and independents get sick of Liberal mismanagement. And with the middle-class+ shrinking and the poor growing in population, we may very well have already reached the point of no return where the Tories can't just be carried by middle-class+ home owners. Urban poverty in urban metros like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver is very significant and these areas have a ton of seats.
I won't vote Liberal/NDP as their mismanagement makes the problems even worse. But I refuse to vote Tory until they make it easier for me to get on the housing ladder and bring back the jobs they shipped out overseas. My suburban riding is going to keep voting Liberal and the west is going to keep kicking and screaming until the Tories address the issues.
I'm not saying you gotta give the poors UBIs. But the government could create affordable housing in the urban metros close to where the working poor work and build rehab centres for the drug addicts and institutions for the severely mentally ill like we did in the past. And the government should relax residential zoning and housing regulations so that the private sector can increase the housing supply as well. And mass immigration needs to be curbed substantially. But we need more housing anyways just to house the people already here.
If you want to live in a society with gross income inequality where you can get culturally enriched by Tyrones and Muhammads in the parking lot at any moment and then be arrested for self-defense (this happened in Toronto recently), be my guest. That is the trajectory that Liberal-Tory neo-liberalism is on. It's very important to address the conditions that lead to poverty. We are better off as a society to set aside some taxes for increasing the housing supply so that Tyrone actually has something to lose and therefore feels deterred from committing crime. Than living in a society where the Tyrones and Muhammads of our society have nothing to lose and would rather culturally enrich you than commit suicide or overdose on heroin because why the fuck not? If your life is so shit and you can't dig yourself out of the hole, what do you have to lose by culturally enriching people like you with a lead pipe in a parking lot and taking their wallet?
This is why I consider myself more left-libertarian than right-libertarian. Pure leftists don't understand economics. You need to temper the welfare state with pragmatism. But right-libertarians don't understand game theory. If I have nothing, I literally lose nothing jacking you at the ATM or in the parking lot. People who are homeless or live with 7 Pajeets don't give a fuck if they go to prison. Their life is already a prison. There comes a point of diminishing return where increasing punishment doesn't deter crime. Homicide is actually one of the strongest correlations with income inequality for this reason. Society has to address inequality.
You don't understand human nature if you think poverty doesn't have an impact on crime. There is a certain percentage of the human population that are psychopaths. Psychopaths who are wealthy tend to become CEOs. Psychopaths who are poor tend to become criminals. The more poor people you have in society, the more poor psychopaths you are going to have, the more homicide, assault, crime, etc. you'll see in society. Psychopaths do not give a flying fuck about the N.A.P or whatever your moral system is. Psychopaths who are not poor are generally not going to victimize you because they don't want to go to jail. But psychopaths who have nothing to lose, they don't give a fuck. They will whack you over the head with a lead pipe in a parking lot just to take your wallet. They don't give any fucks. You are privileged by the fact that you haven't been culturally enriched yet by a criminal. Most right-libertarians are suburban cucks who talk a lot of shit on the internet and have never had to fear for their life even once because they live in nice neighbourhoods away from the poverty. If Canada had inequality to the level of a El Salvador, which has the highest homicide rate in the world, you'd be far more likely to be made a victim. And then you'd think twice about whether inequality is good for society or not. All that hard work you pride yourself on won't mean jack shit when you get whacked over the head with a lead pipe and have permanent brain damage for life.
You're also delusional if you think that most poor people can pull themselves out of poverty when our politicians routinely outsource jobs abroad and prop up the housing bubble. I would love to see you talk about how you are so much better than the poors when you get punched and soccer kicked in the face by a low-inhibition criminal and permanently brain damaged for life. Right-libertarians talk a lot of shit online but they'd be the first to squeal like a bitch and beg for their life when punched in the face by a low-inhibition thug in RL.
I'm a left-libertarian not for moral reasons. But because I'd feel a lot safer in a low inequality society than in a high inequality society like Jamaica where poor psychopaths who have nothing to lose wouldn't hesitate to stab you for your wallet. And if you think it's just a race thing, you clearly have never been to Eastern Europe where there are a lot of low-inhibition criminal thugs just dying to culturally enrich you.
This would be the result if most right-libertarians got into a fight with a thug in RL: https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/09/trump-supporter-knocked-out-blm-protest-massachusetts/ Once Tyrone claps that chin, all your "achievements" in life won't mean anything.