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Re:Vancouver Housing Tax Pushes Chinese to $1M Seattle Homes by tomcam on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:29AM (#13103743)
My favorite counterargument! Duly upvoted. I did try buying real estate in China. Just ended up giving money to my in-laws instead.
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Re:Vancouver Housing Tax Pushes Chinese to $1M Seattle Homes by amazon_not on Monday December 05, 2016 @02:06AM (#13103857)
That counterargument kind of assumes you can become a citizen wherever you want. A lot of people can't, even if they could afford to buy a house.
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