text: "When the Americans and the Germans were starting to significantly buy into Victoria years ago, there was a significant spike in the prices of homes on a similar proportional basis now as Vancouverites and new Asians buying here. No complaints because they were white buyers."
  
  There it is, the boring and ridiculous race card.
  
  Y-A-W-N.
  
  The gig is up, dude. It has nothing to do with RACE and EVERYTHING to do with the reached pricing levels. When all those Americans and, um, Germans (roll eyes) were busy buying en masse just like the Chinese (in your imaginary Southwest BC), they did NOT get houses up to several dozen times the average annual local incomes. This is a WEALTH flood that is up-ending the balance, not a race thing as you desperately pretend. 
  
  I am all for having EXACTLY the same levels of immigration we have had from China and Hong Kong the past 30 years, but from wealth strata THE SAME as the average of Canada, and NOT favouring the rich. There is no racism in this.