Having grown up here in Vancouver and shared the experience of our community, I'd like to apologize to my fellow neighbors.
I had made friends who's apparently bought quite a number of condos in Vancouver thanks to his parent's wealth and leveraging his properties for additional mortgages. He's tended to know quite a bit about this game, so I shared with him a contact to a close friend who had presented me an opportunity for a pre-sale.
Long story short, I've come to realize that friends are not exactly friends when favors are uni-directional. But what made me feel disgusted in myself is the fact that I inadvertently helped make a place where I call home even more un-affordable for the people I grew up with - an opportunity for the selfish wealth to overtake the ones of higher needs.
This was a tough pill to swallow, and perhaps part of a mid-life learning lesson. While the transformation of our city is becoming more and more imminent, I still feel we, as all contributors of our home and community should make an effort to slow it down and prolong what we have left as much as we can.