Having lived all over the world, all over Canada, and in Texas and Cali for many years, I can assure you that Canada is pretty good.

You have clearly never lived in the Silicon Valley if you're talking about housing.

Housing in the Valley is beyond unaffordable. A choice job at Google and you still won't be buying a home.

You're probably young, and single. Your class has always struggled with home ownership. Most couples can afford to get in on the housing ladder by buying and apartment, and in some year, buy a home.

That said - Toronto and Vancouver are distorted markets right now. Everywhere else in Canada is pretty normal and home ownership is similar to most places in the US that are not NYC/SF.

That is a boomer problem. I'm afraid they have no desire in the main to comprehend the difficulties the young face.

>Most youth have zero dreams related to property ownership

So what? If renting is a better financial decision than buying in a particular market, you rent. It's that simple, or else you're making an emotional decision based on value judgments rather than objective measures of benefit or cost.

It's not that different in the states.

Since you seem to think that the only thing that matters is cheap housing, just buy one in a third-world country and move there.