Why are Somali Canadians so poor?

[trucel]

one size fits all.
Education is meant to cater the needs of a people. Cadaan education assumes everyone has the same skill set , upbringing , brain development.

there should be Somali university’s in the west.

Are you saying universities in the west are not suited to non white people? Lmao based off what

 

[x z]

Lord the ignorance in this thread. You go to ghetto ass Toronto probably some scarboro hood and wanna talk about CaNaDa.

Imagine i based my US view on that ghetto mini Mogadishu twin towers cedar place where all Somalis in Minnesota are packed like sardines in

 

[Shimbiris]

Lord the ignorance in this thread. You go to ghetto ass Toronto probably some scarboro hood and wanna talk about CaNaDa.

Imagine i based my US view on that ghetto mini Mogadishu twin towers place where all Somalis in Minnesota are packed like sardines in

*Lawd

(it's more dramatic and goes with the rest of your post, sis)

 

[x z]

*Lawd

(it's more dramatic and goes with the rest of your post, sis)

Why thank you

 

[Spartan]

Average rent in Toronto 2200 its the New York of Canada. Somalis are lucky to have government houses, newer Syrian immigrants are paying 700 dollar for one bedroom basement cause govt housing is full.

Y’all should move to a cheaper area and take over it. American Somalis who picked Minnesota and Ohio are the smart ones, the dumb niggas who went to Seattle and San Diego eventually end up in Minnesota or Ohio.

 

[TekNiKo]

Vancouver put a new law that requires Chinese owners to live there and not just store wealth there.

Chinese ruined BC real estate, Canadians would love to live there but its so expensive. The weather is exquisite over there.

 

[AliAlg3bra]

Ottawa is where it’s at. Everyone a homeowner there.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Lord the ignorance in this thread. You go to ghetto ass Toronto probably some scarboro hood and wanna talk about CaNaDa.

Imagine i based my US view on that ghetto mini Mogadishu twin towers cedar place where all Somalis in Minnesota are packed like sardines in

Scarborough ain’t that bad

abit too much timo jileec but that’s about it

 

[Caaro]

The sad thing about Toronto is even if you work for 5 years full time and save every penny you get and living on the bare minimum. You’ll be able to JUST afford a down-payment for a mortgage, that’s assuming in those 5 years nothing happens that would cause you to spend extra money and that you’re paying the cheapest car insurance you’re legally obliged to pay.

After that you still have to pay a crazy mortgage for a sh*tty one story 3 bedroom house. After maybe 30 years of consistent payments you’ll fully pay off your mortgage and now you own a house that looks like it’s worth 150K at most for upwards of 900K. Anyone who values their future wouldn’t invest in Toronto.

This real estate agent was telling my parents about how there are rich chinese millionaires coming to Canada and buying up tons and tons of houses. Afterwards they rent out those houses to multiple people and/or households to pay off the mortgage while at the same time pushing up to cost of houses higher by the minute. There is 0 regulations to stop this from happening but it is happening. My friend’s parents bought their house for 200-300K in the early 2000s and now their house is worth nearly 800K and it hasn’t even been 20 years.

It gets even worse when you realize that the price isn’t even the biggest problem, it’s actually finding a house! The moment a house is on sale it’s bought up by the Chinese. This is another reason why the cost of housing is skyrocketing. A few months ago they brought this real estate agent on cp24 to talk about it and he was saying how there are all these Canadians with tens of thousands of dollars saved up ready to buy houses but there just isn’t enough for everybody.

Canada has the land and resources to build thousands of houses that would increase the supply to reduce demand but instead they build a bunch of Condos in downtown Toronto. It’s such a good business because these Condos are literally being bought before the building is even finished. All you have to say is you’re building a condo and within a month it will be sold out. Half of them by regular canadians and the other half by the Chinese.

 

[Desert Flower]

There are valid criticisms of Canada but his whole point is disingenuous because the issues he names in Toronto exist in multitudes in Columbus aswell. Also, Toronto is similar to London in the sense that apartment reigns over houses, and i know there are lots of Somali professionals who have put down payments for condos or apartments. Columbus somalis aren’t outperforming per se and a 30$ Thousand dollar house is not a metric to compare it too, if Toronto houses were that cheap everyone would be living in them

I see where you’re coming from. Though, would you agree that as a whole, living in Canada (which is basically just Toronto/GTA and Vancouver) is more expensive and doesn’t grant the same ability for social mobility compared to the USA? In the states, there are many, many cities that are affordable and offer a higher quality of living compared to Canada.

But I agree with OP and may be seeing things a bit differently from you. I know many love Toronto, but it doesn’t love us. It’s not a place to raise a family and live comfortably (anymore).

 

[blackflashist]

It's amazing how fast things have changed. 10 years ago Toronto had not only much cheaper housing, electricity + car insurance etc. but it was probably one of the few cities in the world where you could get a $16-20/hr warehouse or manufacturing job with low rents in the media/finance/tech capital of a G8 country.

Now those same warehouse jobs are $14.50/hour that you can only get through some shitty job agency, rent is double what it was (most places don't even include utilities anymore which doubled as well) and unless you're in tech or finance right now, your salary prospects haven't really kept up with the increases in the cost of living and even there most of the gains have only been in the last two years.

 

[Cerberus]

It's amazing how fast things have changed. 10 years ago Toronto had not only much cheaper housing, electricity + car insurance etc. but it was probably one of the few cities in the world where you could get a $16-20/hr warehouse or manufacturing job with low rents in the media/finance/tech capital of a G8 country.

Now those same warehouse jobs are $14.50/hour that you can only get through some shitty job agency, rent is double what it was (most places don't even include utilities anymore which doubled as well) and unless you're in tech or finance right now, your salary prospects haven't really kept up with the increases in the cost of living and even there most of the gains have only been in the last two years.

Amazon warehouse is where the money is now

 

[Caaro]

It's amazing how fast things have changed. 10 years ago Toronto had not only much cheaper housing, electricity + car insurance etc. but it was probably one of the few cities in the world where you could get a $16-20/hr warehouse or manufacturing job with low rents in the media/finance/tech capital of a G8 country.

Now those same warehouse jobs are $14.50/hour that you can only get through some shitty job agency, rent is double what it was (most places don't even include utilities anymore which doubled as well) and unless you're in tech or finance right now, your salary prospects haven't really kept up with the increases in the cost of living and even there most of the gains have only been in the last two years.

Your house would have doubled in value by now if you bought it back then lol.

 

[dr.leorio]

You Canadians should consider making hijrah to a more reasonable country. Paying 1 million dollars for a house is ludicrous.

For example, Turkey gives you citizenship after investing $250,000 in realestate. Sure it's not a western nation but they're a Muslim country and have friendly ties with Somalis.

Turkey

Turkey offers a citizenship by investment programme. Invest just $250,000 in real estate to qualify. Contact our experts for details and available options.

www.goldenvisas.com

I would leave Toronto and never look back. There's more to life then living in the western world.

 

[Kant123]

You Canadians should consider making hijrah to a more reasonable country. Paying 1 million dollars for a house is ludicrous.

For example, Turkey gives you citizenship after investing $250,000 in realestate. Sure it's not a western nation but they're a Muslim country and have friendly ties with Somalis.

Turkey

Turkey offers a citizenship by investment programme. Invest just $250,000 in real estate to qualify. Contact our experts for details and available options.

www.goldenvisas.com

I would leave Toronto and never look back. There's more to life then living in the western world.

Turkey gonna be in civil war in a couple of years, End of times also predicts destruction for Turkey, Canada better for future

 

[Mr Sufi]

WHY DO PEOPLE ACT LIKE CANADA IS A GREAT COUNTRY / IS IT NOT A NATION THAT IS PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH /


ALL THE ILLS OF UK IS IN CANADA / NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IF YOU WANT TO BUY ITS USUALLY INSANE PRICES /


CANADA IS JUST A BIG COUNTRY WITH NO INNOVATIONS FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS /



THE CHINESE FROM MAINLAND CHINA have DESTROYED THE HOUSING ECONOMY WITH THEM BUYING UP EVERYTHING AND JUST LETTING THE HOMES ROT CAUSE NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO RENT IT EXCEPT FOR THe RICH AND THEIR NOT THAT MANY RICH COMPARED TO THE MIDDLE-CLASS/

THE WEATHER IS FAR WORST THEN ENGLAND WITH HORRIBLE WINTERS AND HORRIBLE OVERCAST DAYS ON END AND THE SUMMERS ARE HUMID ESPECIALLY IN ONTARIO HUMIDITY TO THE POINT YOU THINK YOUR IN SINGAPORE

INSTEAD OF SOMALIS STABBING EACHOTHER LIKE LONDON THEY SHOOT EACHOTHER IN TORONTO AND EDMONTON SO CANADA HAS MORE SOMALI DUDES DEAD

THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT CANADA IS ITS NATURE BUT EVERY COUNTRY KN EARTH HAS BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES

IF NIGHTLIFE IS YOUR THING THE BEST CITY WOULD BE MONTREAL

HONESTLY IM GLAD I MOVED TO SEATTLE BETTER JOBS AND THE RAIN IS BETTER THAN SNOWSTORMS AND YOU CAN AFFORD A HOUSE JUST OUTSIDE OF SEATTLE

SOMALIS ARE STRUGGLING EVERYWHERE BUT I FEEL LIKE ENGLAND AND CANADA AND MINNESOTA USA THESE 3 AREAS WE STRUGGLE THE MOST

AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND / SAN DIEGO / SEATTLE / ZAMBIA / KENYA SOMALIS TEND TO DO WELL AND MAKE GOOD MONEY

 

[Mr Sufi]

Compared to the ones in America? Everytime I go to Toronto I just see somalis living in those ugly apartment blocks that smell weird. Very few have houses and most work low paying minimal jobs like airport baggage and taxi. I never see any Somali or hell any black person working downtown at the financial center or wearing a suit and tie on the subway. Why are y’all so poor? Here in Columbus you see Somalis that are nurses, engineers that own houses with new cars and take a vacation every year. People in Canada, at least in Toronto are faqiiry

YOUR AMERICAN ? UMM YOU ABDIS TWERK FOR DRUGS AND HAVE A SOMALI WOMEN OPENLY EMBARASSING LGBTQ COMMUNITY YOUR IN SHAMBLES AS WELL

 

[dr.leorio]

Turkey gonna be in civil war in a couple of years, End of times also predicts destruction for Turkey, Canada better for future

I agree that Turkey will go through civil unrest but I also believe the West will first implode before that happens. There's a reason why the Hadith don't mention countries like the US or Canada for the end times. That's because they will be decimated before conflict with Europe and Russia occurs. So really pick your poison. If you're staying in a non-Muslim country when things pop off, you're already a goner.

 

[قوة الشرطة الصومالية]

The sad thing about Toronto is even if you work for 5 years full time and save every penny you get and living on the bare minimum. You’ll be able to JUST afford a down-payment for a mortgage, that’s assuming in those 5 years nothing happens that would cause you to spend extra money and that you’re paying the cheapest car insurance you’re legally obliged to pay.

After that you still have to pay a crazy mortgage for a sh*tty one story 3 bedroom house. After maybe 30 years of consistent payments you’ll fully pay off your mortgage and now you own a house that looks like it’s worth 150K at most for upwards of 900K. Anyone who values their future wouldn’t invest in Toronto.

This real estate agent was telling my parents about how there are rich chinese millionaires coming to Canada and buying up tons and tons of houses. Afterwards they rent out those houses to multiple people and/or households to pay off the mortgage while at the same time pushing up to cost of houses higher by the minute. There is 0 regulations to stop this from happening but it is happening. My friend’s parents bought their house for 200-300K in the early 2000s and now their house is worth nearly 800K and it hasn’t even been 20 years.

It gets even worse when you realize that the price isn’t even the biggest problem, it’s actually finding a house! The moment a house is on sale it’s bought up by the Chinese. This is another reason why the cost of housing is skyrocketing. A few months ago they brought this real estate agent on cp24 to talk about it and he was saying how there are all these Canadians with tens of thousands of dollars saved up ready to buy houses but there just isn’t enough for everybody.

Canada has the land and resources to build thousands of houses that would increase the supply to reduce demand but instead they build a bunch of Condos in downtown Toronto. It’s such a good business because these Condos are literally being bought before the building is even finished. All you have to say is you’re building a condo and within a month it will be sold out. Half of them by regular canadians and the other half by the Chinese.

Condo life in the vicinity of downtown isn’t healthy for a family. Many drug dealers and prostitutes frequent those shiny glass towers in downtown. Many also live there. It isn’t a healthy environment to be raising kids. I’m headed out of this place once I finish up loose ends. It’s either the US, U.A.E, Addis or Nairobi for me. It isn’t easy to raise a family in Toronto with how expensive everything is.

Even those shiny condos cost an arm and a leg these days.

 

[Sedderr1234]

Walaahi Sanjeets iyo Shuguwang Chwuan focked up the housing prices here. My aabo told me how cheap things used to be in the 80s/90s, until the two Y'aa juuj iyo ma'juuj inkaar of this Dunya shatted all over everything. These people threw themselves into mortgages like there's no future, and made the housing prises jack up higher than major metropolitan cities like New York.

Bro I visited Toronto three times one at 2005 another and 2010 and then I just visited 2019 and I swear I’ve never seen that many Indoyaars and Hindi before back in 2010 in et center there was a mix of cadaan, indoyaar, Hindi black etc but now it literally is just a plethora indoyaars and Hindis. Every Tim Hortons I went to had Hindis taking your order