Scanning the blogroll... June 2007

By Greg - Posted on June 7th, 2007

As some readers may notice, the links to Casey Serin's blog are working again, as he has returned to blog about - nothing at all.

^{[editor's note - none of the Casey links are working anymore - sorry - August 31, 2007]}

What's the difference between Casey and so many bloggers on the internet? CS has developed a community on his blog, an ill-humoured community, perhaps, but one that couldn't wait to get back and start ripping into him.

If Casey is not a mythical character, he will eventually reach the status of an urban myth, because the blogosphere continues to comment, speculate, document and castigate regarding the twists and turns of his waffling soap opera blog career.

Hat's off to Mr Serin for that. Now that my blatant attempt to grab some snowflake smack traffic is over, let's continue with some actually interesting posts found via my favourite blogroll, that one over to the right there. >>>>>>

Charles Hugh Smith grapples with the potential for a gold backed currency in in the future. Is their enough gold available for the US dollar or other another currency to go this route? What about in Canada? Far-fetched? You decide. Charles also grapples with whether "prime" real estate ever declines. For those in Victoria who don't believe this could ever happen I have one word: Tokyo. Oh, and read this post.

Mohican posts some interesting stats on net migration to Greater Vancouver on his blog at Financial Planning and Personal Sanity. Worth reading and considering, the next time the MSM trot out that old standby about how "everybody wants to live here." Do they?

HHV has collected a nice compendium of swanky Victoria real estate into one tasty column: try it, or suggest your own favourite piece of Victorian luxurious grandeur, if you please.

Speaking of dreams, nobody gives the luxury treatment to the condo lifestyle better than that stainless steel, granite-chiseled blogger, condohype. Check out this post, where he mocks the lamest realtor ad copy fall-back - the word luxury. Oh, I forgot, condohype mocks the over-use of the term "luxury" in every post. And they went to school for how long to learn to write that ad copy?

Housing Panic is as manic as ever, including warnings from Morgan Stanley, blasts at blog junkie Serin and links to a summary of the US housing markets, coyly titled Hmmm... It's tough, but can anyone see the housing bubble (and crash)?

Prairieboy provides some nice stats regarding the current state of condo supply in Victoria, Langford, East and West Saanich - with nice graphs, too.

Over at Patrick.net, the bears are growling and the renters are rioting, in a blog topic that started out as a discussion of the rights of renters in a foreclosure, at least, until the discussion degenerated into the usual hoo-haw [this blog is always rated "PG", I warned you].

Meanwhile, at Housing Doom we have some US love for the Loonie on a roll.

Well, that's enough for now, back next time with some more Victoria analysis, unless something better comes along...