Editor:
Re: ‘Impossible’: Burnaby family stuck looking new rental home as prices soar, NOW News
I read this story in the NOW and I am in the exact same situation as our family looks for a new place to live.
We have kids and pets and were living in an excellent rental situation ever since our children were born. But now the landlord has sold the house and the new owners plan on moving in and so we have to leave.
The list of options are not good. We want to stay close to the school our children attend but there aren’t many place available and the prices are really high for the ones that are being rented out. It’s amazing how much more expensive the market is than when we first moved in.
People keep telling us to just move to another city, but that’s easy for them to say. It’s not a good idea to turn the lives of your children upside down. They have friends and strong connections that they have made. We don’t want to mess with that. I feel upset at the thought of destroying everything we’ve built.
It’s looking more and more like we’re going to have to compromise by renting only one half of a house and stacking our kids up in rooms. Right now they each have their own room.
This isn’t an ideal situation, but it’s better than severing all of the relationships we’ve made in our neighbourhood.
D. Adamson, Burnaby
