The Journey to here.: The Price you dont have to pay for Paradice

I remember when we lived in our 2 bedroom apartment in Whistler before Hunter was born. The place was okay but small (900 square feet). My point to that is we lived comfortably the three of us but it was tight. Well our upstairs neighbours had the same apartment in fact the whole building was the same. They had the Mom and Dad two little girls and an Aux pair living in this place. Their reason behind it was that it they could save on child care but squish all of them into sharing one small room, so the Aux pair could have her own small room. I pictured the two little girls beds side by side right beside their parents bed with a small path way in between. I wondered how they slept like that or had their private time (you know what I mean) let alone conceive another child (which they somehow managed to do, I don't want to know) They simply and happily said it was a small price you pay to live in Paradise. Me and my Husband were appalled we could never imagine giving our comforts of space and private space to live in a beautiful community. I was wrong about that here I know so many family's that give up their dream of their dream home just to get a place to rent or to bye. Its common for people to cram in tight courtier's and pay a ridiculous amount of money. In fact I know a photographer that did a whole exhibit on this called "Living the Dream". http://livingthedreamwhistler.com/
I was happy to have a large space when we moved in to our 3 bedroom town home but I wasn't 100% happy with it, it was painted poorly, maintained poorly, some rooms didn't have trim, their were holes in the walls, Mice in the crawl space, there is a mysterious pee smell everywhere (no matter how hard I clean with the strongest fragrant cleaner), The rooms are small, the stove only has to elements that work,the neighbours a mixture of trash and nice people living the dream, and the carpet was from the 70's and smelt like our dog after she rolled in a dead fish from the lake. We sucked it up painted, scrubbed it down and made it livable. Over the past few months I began to hate the bad paint jobs, poor construction and how generally GHETTO the over all feel to this place was, but it is a roof over our heads and at a Whistler affordable price (1550.00). Well now I know that Paradise is not here this is a rich mans paradise but not for me.This place is not made for you average working family to succeed. Its not made so that you will want to say and infest the town with you middle income family. The way I look at Whistler way of screening who they want living here long term is to jack the prices or houses, food, clothing and pay people little to nothing for big title. They squeeze all the middle income family's out, and happily make money off the rich and the seasonal workers who are here for a good time not a long time.Well I ve had enough of being made to feel like I am of a lower class and that I will always live in the Ghetto, so good bye to all those living the dream that turned into a nightmare for us. Paradise is in Invermere for us. We found our new home its ($1300.) and 2700 square feet and big upgrade from the 1200 square feet we are in now. I cant believe this I am feeling like I was living a lie about Paradise, guess what you don't have to pay a price of flesh for you stake in Paradise you can get it cheep and have a nice place to call home, at least one I can have people over without being embarrassed. Oh and people want to help you find a place and rent to you even when you have a dog and you don't have to know someone or bribe well.

A view from our Invermere home

A view from our Whistler home

Invermere Play room yes its actually a big room

Whistlers Play (Closet) it was a storage closet we converted into a playroom and we painted it.

Invermere living room

Whistlers Living room, yes they actually painted it Blue and Purple (I hated it!)

Invermere one of three bathrooms yes i said three.

Our one bathroom here in whistler, Oh god the agony of having to wait form someone to shower when you have to go.

Invermere Kitchen notice the breakfast bar, stainless steal appliances. I may just have to cook every meal.

Our Whistler kitchen, thoes are not granit counters its fake and exspanding so we can no longer open a drawer. The appliences are not rustic or vintage, just rusty and old.