guest, parent, what I was trying to demonstrate was the deep disparity in living costs from area to area in this country, not the right to own a detached dwelling.

If it would make you feel better, we could just as easily contrast the price of a 10 X 12 flop house room in Vancouver's east end with a comparable housing unit on the east coast, if you think that might be a more relevant in the socio-economic scheme of things, relative to teachers as a profession.

Its ironic that in some parts of this country, that if you cannot afford to buy a house to live in, you can buy a house speculatively and rent it to yourself, thus assuring low rent and a modest profit for yourself as your own ruthless landlord....And you get your dummy tenant to pay off your mortgage. LOL