Vancouver's "solid" "job" "market"!

The local newspapers and news broadcasts have been drumming for a while about Vancouver having "all time record employment" and about "tons of open job openings being available". I wonder where or what these "jobs" are. A person who I happen to know very well had to look for a job for over a year before finding something half-way decent. And there are number of others who I know, who are or have been in similar situation. So I know that these claims or "full employment" are bullshit.

Probably there are indeed record number of minimum wage jobs at $8 an hour. Too bad that working full time in such job wouldn’t be enough to cover even the cheapest possible rental apartment and other basic living costs in this "world's most livable city" in "the best place on earth".

The fact is that the city is still full of poor students and other folks living at margin and in desperate need of more income. Additionally, several freight ships arrive daily with thousands of Asian (this is politically correct blog, so I can not disclose any ethnic origins) immigrants that are willing to work for almost free.

Normally, if there were a decent job opening somewhere within this city, there were at least 1000 applicants for such a job. But since we are now experiencing this "unpreceded job market boom", that figure has probably reduced now to only 500! Awesome!!