A little off topic -
I'm on Kauai right now with the wife and kids. A couple days ago I was looking at some listings in the window of a Realtor here.
If we were to sell our house in Victoria for assessed value, we could buy a 1200sq ft, 3bd 2ba home on a 10,000sq ft property, with mountain and beach views, 10min drive to the beach and still have some cash left over. Exchange taken into account.
There's something very wrong with real estate prices in BC.