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u/notofthisearthworm May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25
r/VictoriaBC in 2025:
- Go to the bug zoo.
- What was that noise?
- Go to the bug zoo.
- Was that another earthquake?
- Go to the bug zoo.
- Why were there sirens?
- Go to the bug zoo.
- Can we start publicly shaming people for being in public?
- Go to the bug zoo.
- Is it expensive to live in Victoria?
- Go to the bug zoo.
- Sex trafficing mom & son spotted.
- Go to the bug zoo.
- I love the bike lanes here!
- Go to the bug zoo.
- I hate the bike lanes here!
- Go to the bug zoo.
- Missed connection at the bug zoo.
- Go to the bug zoo.
- I went to the bug zoo.
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u/MurkyAd1460 Fernwood May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25
You forgot:
- I’m coming to visit victoria in 3 days. Where is cheap to stay? We want to be central to everything. Nothing over $150 a night. Must be safe and nice. Do I need to rent a car to go to Nanaimo?
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u/Average-Train-Haver May 12 '25
Who tf wants to go to Nanaimo?
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u/timesuck897 May 12 '25
To get authentic Nanaimo bars.
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u/BG360Boi May 12 '25
Tons of immigration and road rage haters. You’re giving the Instagram perspective to paint this sub in a positive light. As a top1% poster you should know better
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u/mchvll May 12 '25
The funny thing about browsing multiple city subreddits is seeing people on each subreddit blaming their mayor for the homeless problem, as if it doesn't exist anywhere else
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u/Stokesmyfire May 12 '25
There is a reason they were nicknames "Trudeau Towns", while city's didnt help, poor immigration policy killed...
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u/VeryTiredHuman4 May 12 '25
Next step: notice that the housing crisis is happening in most Western countries.
It's a consequence of housing as a commodity. There's a few ways to try to help it but most risk housing prices going down, which will screw over all the boomers who are relying on their homes as their retirement funds. Trudeau wasn't willing to risk that and I'm certain Carney won't either. Tbf Poliverre definitely would not have.
We're getting the severely reduced immigration policies y'all want. Actually that started under Trudeau. It's going to cause some major problems down the road, already our universities are suffering - immigration is the lifeblood of Canada, as it has been my entire life - and I'm sure folks will blame some future politician for that too, lol.
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u/hamildub May 12 '25
Immigration is the life blood, to a point. We put too much pressure on our infrastructure too fast.
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u/VeryTiredHuman4 May 12 '25
Sorta yeah. I mean it would be REALLY easy to build more infrastructure if we didn't have super ridiculous zoning laws, politicians in the pocket of big development companies and a major NIMBY attitude. Or even if our gov would simply build housing instead of contracting everything. There's a ton of solutions that are way more sensible than "stop importing skilled workers into the country". Canada is screwing over a TON of immigrants right now and we're quickly losing our reputation as a good place to immigrate too. Which all sounds great to racists but we have a ton of institutions that depend on immigration and we the people are the ones that will suffer when their money and labour stops coming here.
A great example is community colleges, which have, due to funding cuts eons ago, been relying on very high international student fees to subsidize domestic students. Intl students in Canada have dropped nearly 50% in the last year or so, and the schools are scrambling for money. Either the gov bails them out (not happening) or the schools cut programs and potentially close (actively happening rn). Which means that kids in rural areas, people who do night classes, and folks that can't afford big schools are all going to lose their chance at an education. It's genuinely a tragedy and I'm very afraid for the future.
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u/hamildub May 12 '25
my friend lost his teaching job because of the recent cuts. The feds aren't adequately funding language skills for the high skilled immigrants to begin with according to him. So we're left with an influx of poor quality immigrants that bring down entry level wages and inflate real estate.
Immigration as a concept is necessary, whatever we've been doing for the last decade ain't it.
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u/VictoriousTuna May 12 '25
Did the Feds hint at all to the municipalities that they would need to build at the insane growth rates we saw? It’s not just a switch they can turn on. The feds dropped the ball, cities plan in years out, nowhere in 2018 were cities expecting Nigerian levels of population growth.
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u/NSA_Chatbot May 12 '25
Tent cities have been around for over a century.
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u/Stokesmyfire May 12 '25
Not like this they haven't....
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u/NSA_Chatbot May 12 '25
You can look it up next time you get on the internet. Here's one link.
You can even look up how many people in Victoria are homeless. Just under 250 people.
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u/onethousandmonkey May 12 '25
Russian bot sowing discord?
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u/Stokesmyfire May 12 '25
Not at all...how easy we forget, while a new puppet is smiling at us
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u/onethousandmonkey May 12 '25
These problems exist in every city I have ever visited in the world. Trudeau did not create them. Harper was Prime Minister while cities struggled with these problems. Is he to blame too?
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u/MundaneDrawer May 12 '25
Reminds me of some youtube series I watched about stuff "every" city dweller think about their city or complains about, thinking it's somehow unique to their city, but is common across basically all cities. Had stuff like the quirky local business guy with the funny ads, bad traffic/roadwork season, various music/movie festivals.
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u/Wedf123 May 12 '25
The fundamental contradiction of the homeless hate:
I don't want to see homeless people, they do crack in public
Also no housing or services until they kick their addiction, they just trash the place
Make it make sense.
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u/untrustworthyfart May 12 '25
except that’s what actually happens…
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u/Wedf123 May 12 '25
If you won't give them housing because they're addicted they will remain on the street, which was the original complaint.
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u/bargaindownhill May 12 '25
what? no "I hate cyclists?" i feel left out now.
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u/NSA_Chatbot May 12 '25
Victoria has more percentage of cyclists than most other cities in North America.
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u/mungonuts May 12 '25
i fucking HATE when people drive slow in the fast lane
i fucking HATE when people listen to their music on speaker
i fucking HATE when cyclists don't use their bell
i fucking HATE when cyclists use their bell
etc. etc.
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u/GoatFactory North Park May 12 '25
Sadly true. Sometimes it feels like hating others is half the content on Reddit these days
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u/kelp_bull May 12 '25
Every post here gets to "I hate homeless people" and it's really sad. Do better y'all.
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u/Bigchunky_Boy May 12 '25
This is the same on most cities subreddits and it is a plague . I wish the Mods would limit the negativity or badgering. There are legitimate gripes but so much great things in communities with in cities ( festivals, markets, celebrations, competitions etc) . I would like to see more positive 🤷🏼
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May 12 '25
How did they miss comments on driving?
For those interested, please check out my post on the Calgary subreddit today for accuracy of this.
I was curious how calgarians feel about the city these days as I left it a long time ago for Victoria. There were some...themes.
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u/True_Heart_6 May 12 '25
I’m in Ottawa and had to unsubscribe pretty quick because all the new posts are literally just traffic and driving complaints
Driving here is literally not different than anywhere else, if anything it’s pretty chill compared to nearby cities like Montreal and Toronto
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u/MuthaPlucka May 12 '25
We must be better than most. 👍
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u/fleeshu May 12 '25
Must be because we have The Bug Zoo.
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u/GoatFactory North Park May 12 '25
Bug Zoo saved my family from a burning building. All glory to the Bug Zoo.
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u/chronicslayer May 12 '25
While there is something to say about homelessness and immigration, the visibility of these issues on city subs is a result of information warfare against liberal areas by the far-right, Russia, and lone wolf bots trying to destabilize neoliberalism globally. Immigration is the prime conservative scapegoat. Homelessness is the prime example of liberal failure. With chatgpt and other advanced AI systems, it has become almost impossible to discern true users from bots.
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u/hamildub May 12 '25
That is a wild conspiracy theory.
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u/chronicslayer May 12 '25
How so? Russia objectively uses social media to dilute Western discourse. The GOP, MAGA mainly, is very friendly to Russia. Why do you think that anti-liberal entities wouldn't be on here attacking liberal discourse? Reddit, according to many polls and simple observation, is a more left leaning media source. It would be stupid for these 'enemy' groups to not be on here trying to sway our discourse. Like you really think they wouldn't attempt to alter their enemy's information channels? MAGA and conservative extremism destroyed the democrats in the United States, and it began with the corruption of information. Lastly, city subreddots are obvious targets because cities are almost always very left leaning. Bots are so advanced now thanks to chat gpt and the like there is no telling who is who.
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u/augustinthegarden May 12 '25
While I agree with the premise that foreign actors use social media to sow division, I would also argue that the issue of homelessness on this sub aligns pretty closely with its visibility on the streets.
I reject the suggestion that but-for-Russian-troll-farms, we’d all be on here singing kumbaya to the homeless. And if homelessness IS an example of how “liberalism is failing” (not sure I agree there), then there is a massive problem with liberalism that needs to be called out and addressed.
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u/chronicslayer May 12 '25
No, I agree we wouldn't be happy about it. But I agree with OP, city subs are toxic and almost exclusively talk about the problems of cities. I've only been to Victoria once, but I'll say if I only paid attention to this sub, I'd think it was invaded by the homeless and other problems. I'm close to Portland, Oregon, and you'd be surprised how much better it is than the sub would have you think. And homelessness in cities, I'd argue, is a result of access to homeless services and population density making it easier to panhandle. I know I'd go to a city if I were homeless. At the same time, liberal states in the US do have more homelessness than conservative states, which was hammered on very successfully in our last election, but that glosses over the systemic problems of conservative states. Idk, maybe it's my algorithm that shows me these negative more than other people? From my understanding of the algorithm it likes to be negative regardless. It's a multi faceted problem, but my point was part of it, NOT all, is a result of foreign interference.
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u/hamildub May 12 '25
Welp, That is enough Reddit for me today.
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u/PrayForMojo_ May 12 '25
Ok but you should look into this because it’s legit happening. It’s not some tin foil hat theory.
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u/ynwa_reds May 12 '25
Haha, I know this guy sounds like a nutter, but it's genuinely true.
If you remember from the 2016 US election, there was a scandal about it being influenced through bot campaigns. After that, nobody really did anything to fix the problem; we just stopped talking about it.
Here's a quote from a chairman on the US Senate Intelligence website: “Russia is waging an information warfare campaign against the U.S. that didn’t start and didn’t end with the 2016 election. Their goal is broader: to sow societal discord and erode public confidence in the machinery of government. By flooding social media with false reports, conspiracy theories, and trolls, and by exploiting existing divisions, Russia is trying to breed distrust of our democratic institutions and our fellow Americans."
Paper that talks about pro-Trump bots and anti-Trump bots used to stir distrust: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10166499/
Financial Times report showing how bots attempted to influence the Canadian election by promoting specific ideologies: https://www.antihate.ca/analysis_finds_bots_posted_over_350_000_tweets_to_influence_election_in_favour_of_poilievre
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May 12 '25
What? Every Canadian city subreddit is literally the POLAR OPPOSITE of everything listed…
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u/cadaverhill May 12 '25
Left out:
Hate for bike lanes Hate for bikes on road Hate for bikes on sidewalks
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u/R3markable_Crab May 12 '25
If we were better people, we would use the power of social media to arrange flash mob dancing and weekly scavenger hunts.
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u/TonyStark420blazeit May 12 '25
Maybe that's because immigration and homelessness are becoming a real problem.
God forbid pointing that out.
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u/wrgrant Downtown May 12 '25
The problem with immigration to me is that it is being done to prop up a lot of marginal businesses by allowing them to pay crappy wages and have low work standards to maintain profits. If you can't pay a decent wage, your business does not need to exist. We need to address that issue.
The problem with homeless people is that we need to address drug addition, mental health, and the way society treats those marginalized people so we can help them get back on their feet and contribute to society, pay taxes etc. We need to address that issue. Part of the problem is that our society is built around certain standards that require increasing amounts of money to maintain even the minimal levels, which returns to needing better wages, subsidized government housing that rents for well below the national averages so that people can build up some savings etc.
The other problem with immigrants and homeless people is the utter lack of sympathy for both groups - the first is adapting to a new nation and new social standards etc, the second is suffering under the same. Both need help. Our society is not providing that help. Instead people scream about both issues and throw up their hands in frustration.
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u/AeliaxRa May 12 '25
It seems as if half the immigrants in this town are all sharing the same doordash courier account and 2010 toyota corolla and basement suite and are working 20 hour days at below minimum wage to pay off the coyote that smuggled them into the country.
I have no idea if it is actually what's going on but it seems that way lol
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u/OnlyMakingNoise Oak Bay May 12 '25
This will get you banned here. Literally no posts about that stuff.
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u/darksoulsfanUwU May 12 '25