Election Door Knocking Revealed a Darkness’s in the Suburbs

The article describes everyone I know, pretty much. Housing is painfully, laughably, depressingly unaffordable. Everyone has adult children living with them, as university grads are out of work or making minimum wage in retail. People are isolated and don't know their neighbours anymore (a combination of neighbours not speaking the same language, and the revolving door neighbourhood, as I call it: people buy houses, stay a year or two, renovate, and sell. Rinse and repeat). There's no mental health support (no public services, and therapists are frickin expensive as hell). Even the racism and anti-immigrant talk: I've heard that several times over the past few years, from strangers even. I guess as a white Christian-ish male, people tend to be more open about stuff like that around me? My mother gets it too, at work. Random customers complain about the Muslims and Chinese to her. Weird as hell, but it happens.

There are two categories of people in Richmond Hill I see a lot of: wealthy new residents who buy the million dollar homes, and people like me and my neighbours and friends, who were raised here and struggle.

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