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<h4 class="lastupdated clearfix"><em>Last Updated: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | 12:46 PM PT</em> <span class="d-inline" id="user_socialhead"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/18/bc-condo-hospice-meeting.html#socialcomments" target="_blank">Comments<em class="cmt">4</em></a><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/18/bc-condo-hospice-meeting.html#" target="_blank" title="Recommend this story">Recommend<em class="rec">7</em></a></span></h4>
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<div id="user_storybody"><span class="photo left" style="width:227px;"><img alt="Some residents of the Promontory condominium in Vancouver oppose having a palliative care facility nearby at the University of British Columbia. (IBI/HB Architects website)" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/01/18/p_promontory01.jpg" style=""><em>Some residents of the Promontory condominium in Vancouver oppose having a palliative care facility nearby at the University of British Columbia. (IBI/HB Architects website)</em> <em class="credit">(IBI/HB Architects website)</em></span>
<p>At a news conference Tuesday in Richmond, B.C. they urged people to remain calm while more discussion on the plan takes place.</p>
<p>The leaders agreed some opposition to the plan is based on unfounded Chinese superstition, and said the controversy is giving the Chinese culture a bad name.</p>
<p>David Choi, the head of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians, said the condo owners cannot rely on the misuse of Chinese culture and or the Chinese community to back their opposition.</p>
<p>The hospice proposal calls for a 15-bed palliative care facility, called St. John Hospice, to be built next to a high-rise condominium building called the Promontory.</p>
<p>One condo owner said most residents in the building are of Asian descent and believe living close to a hospice will bring bad luck.</p>
<p>"In Chinese culture, we are against having dying people in your backyard," said Janet Fan told CBC News last week. "We cannot accept this. It's against our belief, against our culture. It's not culturally sensitive."</p>
<p>A two-bedroom condo in the Promontory sells for almost $1 million, and people fear their property value will plummet if the hospice is built.</p>
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Read more: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/18/bc-condo-hospice-meeting.html#ixzz1BQIM5zZm" style="color:#003399;" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/18/bc-condo-hospice-meeting.html#ixzz1BQIM5zZm</a></p>
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<p>Interesting glimpse into some of the issues that arise when the ethnic face of your community is changing.  I was reading some demographic projections that indicate that Chinese and Indian cultural perceptions will play an even greater role in urban life here.  </p>
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[jcumming]

<p> If you would tell those nice Chinese folks that I will be happy to take those bad luck condos off their hands and they won't have to pay me a cent. In fact, I will even cover the closing costs.</p>
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<p>Oh course if a zombie from the cemetery comes up and kills me it would turn out to be a bad deal.</p>

 

[airehead]

<p>I call shens.</p>
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<p>I have a superstition, too.  Cultural even.  I don't want my house's value to drop, ever.  That is considered very, very bad where I come from.</p>

 

[GaReb770]

<p>The value of my house has dropped almost $50,000 since 2007 and I don't even have a hospice near me.  Although there is a quaint Baptist cemetery right around the corner. </p>

 

[Mrtambalynman]

<p>Ack, Baptist Zombies!  <span><img alt="bonedemon.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/bonedemon.gif" style="width:128px;height:128px;"></span></p>

 

[airehead]

<p>OMG!  I thought you wrote "hispanic".  <span><img alt="laughing6.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/laughing6.gif"></span></p>
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<p>Our house dropped $25k.  *sigh*  And I was the only hispanic in the 'hood.<br>
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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>GaReb770</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72227/chinese-leaders-urge-calm-on-ubc-hospice-plan#post_1977735"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>The value of my house has dropped almost $50,000 since 2007 and I don't even have a hospice near me.  Although there is a quaint Baptist cemetery right around the corner. </p>
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[GaReb770]

<p><br><span><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">. </span>   My neighborhood has been very diverse with hispanics, blacks, whites, Christians and Muslims for well over 10 years and probably closer to 15.  Values went up on all of our houses until shortly after 2006 and then came down equally on all of our houses.  <br>
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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>airehead</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72227/chinese-leaders-urge-calm-on-ubc-hospice-plan#post_1977748"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>OMG!  I thought you wrote "hispanic".  <span><img alt="laughing6.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/laughing6.gif"></span></p>
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<p>Our house dropped $25k.  *sigh*  And I was the only hispanic in the 'hood.<br>
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[jcumming]

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>airehead</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72227/chinese-leaders-urge-calm-on-ubc-hospice-plan#post_1977748"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>Our house dropped $25k.  *sigh*  And I was the only hispanic in the 'hood.<br>
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So it was YOUR fault!!!  <span><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;"></span></p>

 

[Mrtambalynman]

<p>I live in Lotus Land.  The real estate just keeps going up, up, up.  When it corrects, nobody knows.  A co-worker told me her assessment went up 20% this year. </p>

 

[airehead]

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It dropped after I left, so maybe... </p>
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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>jcumming</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72227/chinese-leaders-urge-calm-on-ubc-hospice-plan#post_1977914"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><br><br><p><br><br>
So it was YOUR fault!!!  <span><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;"></span></p>
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