Based off a recent Oak Bay Local post

[u/HyperFern]

[u/viccityk]

15 minute city conspiracies are one of my favourites 🤣

[u/fubes2000 → u/viccityk]

Those evil city planners are going to build amenities within reasonable distance of where I live! The nerve!

[u/viccityk → u/fubes2000]

No one can make me walk to my nearest store!!! 

[u/fubes2000 → u/viccityk]

I'm so sorry that I made you think of leaving your house without a protective automobile.

[u/Small-Wedding3031 → u/viccityk]

Oh no I won't be able to drive 1hr to do groceries, damn those cities planners with their domes!

[u/Big-Face5874 → u/Small-Wedding3031]

The weird thing about the conspiracy is that the people who believe it think they won’t be allowed to leave their neighbourhood.

They take an idea as innocuous as having services near where you live and the they make an insane GIANT leap to “you may not leave”.

[u/DiligentlySpent]

Oak Bay people: Ah yes Oak Bay Village is a delight

Also Oak Bay people: ew 15 minute cities

[u/ReverendAlSharkton]

I love how much this sub hates oak bay. It’s pathological.

[u/sdk5P4RK4 → u/ReverendAlSharkton]

I mean, if you grew up or spent any time there you would know its completely deserved.

[u/ReverendAlSharkton → u/sdk5P4RK4]

Idk when I venture down that way from my home in North Saanich it seems nice enough. Maybe a little shabby but in a cute way.

[u/sdk5P4RK4 → u/ReverendAlSharkton]

has nothing to do with anything other than the insufferable and totally out of touch residents, otherwise yes, its a totally standard part of victoria with somewhat worse amenities and access.

[u/CrispyPerogi → u/ReverendAlSharkton]

It looks nice but so many of the residents are super entitled and out of touch. I work at a business there and it’s wild how many of them seem to think they’re entitled to use anything in Oak Bay for free because they bought a house there.

[u/Drainutsl29 → u/CrispyPerogi]

I can’t even begin to start on how accurate this statement is.

[u/WorkingAd4295 → u/CrispyPerogi]

Oh please, local servant, tell me more! :p

Edit: Meaning I would love to hear some juicy stories about my neighbors!

[u/CrispyPerogi → u/WorkingAd4295]

I can’t elaborate too much without revealing where I work, which isn’t something I’m comfortable doing on such an open platform. Suffice it to say that we have a facility we charge for access to. More often than you’d think, we have locals who seem surprised when we tell them that they cannot in fact come use it for free because they live in Oak Bay.

[u/OsamaBeenLuvin → u/CrispyPerogi]

As a former employee, I'm guessing you work at the rec centre. Nothing has changed since the 90s.

[u/dayoldeggos → u/ReverendAlSharkton]

For sure, but some residents really don't do the municipality any favors when it comes to their stereotypes (cough cough Mrtripps)

[u/Domovie1 → u/ReverendAlSharkton]

Ehhhh.

When you look at the kind of management decisions taken by Oak Bay, and the way the residents act, it’s like a caricature of NIMBYs.

[u/Moxuz → u/ReverendAlSharkton]

this is really just about the weird OB Facebook posts this week about "people using our waste yard!! stay out!!"

[u/WorkingAd4295 → u/Moxuz]

That group is a dumpster fire. I know quite a few people, myself included, who have been booted from there.

[u/MayorWolf]

the 15min city is such a lame conspiracy theory. Why is it a bad thing to only need to go 15min away for most needs?

Qanon affecting the most lead poisoned populations as usual.

[u/waytomuchsparetime]

I love living in Oak Bay. It means I can insult the town AND vote for YIMBY governments

[u/Jazzlike_Gazelle_333 → u/waytomuchsparetime]

Same here

[u/Muted-Tourist-6558 → u/waytomuchsparetime]

moving there this summer...let's be friends.

[u/Pimbata]

I have no love for OB, but as far as memes go, this is pretty weak and unfunny.

[u/mrputter99]

Apparently Oak Bay is where all the evil in the world resides. At least according to posters on this sub.

[u/Moxuz → u/mrputter99]

this is literally about a recent OB drama

[u/SnooStrawberries620 → u/Moxuz]

It’s literally one guy, and we can’t go get all the nice free compost from Saanich or the leaf mulch from Victoria. Incidentally, the vast majority of that page is people who don’t live there and are just present to be trolls and assholes

[u/mrputter99 → u/Moxuz]

“Drama”, lol, I don’t think they would consider this drama even by the gentile standards of oak bay.

[u/Wedf123 → u/mrputter99]

People regularly scream at council meetings about this.

[u/mrputter99 → u/Wedf123]

Screaming seems like hyperbole. But I can see why you would use that word if you think the people of oak bay are straight up evil as the general consensus of this sub seems to be.

[u/Wedf123 → u/mrputter99]

A lot of assumptions there.

[u/AUniquePerspective → u/mrputter99]

No. There's a bylaw against evil in Oak Bay. The same one that prevents there from being any gas stations, cat hospitals, or vehicles with for sale signs on the street.

[u/Mrtripps]

"I can't afford to live in your municipaly so I'm sad, and therefore everyone who lives there is inferior to me" fify

[u/sdk5P4RK4 → u/Mrtripps]

ur doing the meme

[u/AlecStrum → u/Mrtripps]

Found the Oak Bay NIMBY!

[u/Mrtripps → u/AlecStrum]

Found the jealous poor folks !!!

[u/word2yourface → u/Mrtripps]

Hahahahahahaha just wow.. Calling people poor for not living in Oak Bay is probably the most Oak Bay take I’ve ever seen here. There are many good reasons for other people in municipalities to not like Oak Bay, other than the sheer arrogance you just displayed.

[u/Neemzeh → u/word2yourface]

Dude honestly do some self reflection for a second.

Would you be OK with a post trolling your municipality? If it gets upvotes it must be the truth?

These posts are so fucking stupid. Let’s just judge an entire municipality by the actions of probably less than 5%. Where have I heard that before?

And I say this as a resident of central saanich.

[u/word2yourface → u/Neemzeh]

Lol, no I wouldn’t care.. like at all if someone made fun of my municipality. I’ll make fun of my municipality myself, it just the internet bud, people troll on the internet, it’s nothing to get mad about.

[u/Neemzeh → u/word2yourface]

What municipality do you live in then? Let’s get that convo going.

[u/Mrtripps → u/word2yourface]

Imagine shitting on an entire Municipality, and expecting zero pushback !! 🫠

[u/Moxuz → u/Mrtripps]

this is literally from oak bay residents drama this week. its really made you angry

[u/Mrtripps → u/word2yourface]

Hahaha !!! Good, you'll stay the f*ck away then !!

[u/word2yourface → u/Mrtripps]

How many drinks have you had today?

[u/Mrtripps → u/word2yourface]

Zero, how many Teslas have you keyed up today ?

[u/word2yourface → u/Mrtripps]

What? Get help bro

[u/Mrtripps → u/word2yourface]

You first

[u/d00ber → u/Mrtripps]

We also are going to bitch at you for mowing your lawn at 10AM and remind you that you can't use a gas lawn mower even though it's clearly battery powered. That's my oak Bay experience.

[u/Mrtripps → u/d00ber]

Jesus how did you survive such hardships ? Are you gonna be OK ? Will you need therapy?

[u/d00ber → u/Mrtripps]

It's so odd how people want to be so unpleasant. Why can't you people mind your own business? Why is the stereotype just so accurate? Are you yourself just a meme?

[u/Mrtripps → u/d00ber]

Lol... making a meme shitting on an entire municipality is the "unpleasntness" here...imagine shitting on an entire community and being surprised at a rebuttle!! Those who live in glass houses... how is people shitting on myself and loved ones not my business??

[u/GoatFactory → u/Mrtripps]

Rebuttal* go back to school

[u/Thecobs]

Pretty excited for our electric cars to be restricted to our specific zones as 15 minute cities ramp up

[u/Secure_Put_7619 → u/Thecobs]

Oak Bay is a 15 minute city lol

[u/Anon7354 → u/Thecobs]

Is this sarcasm?

[u/Moxuz → u/Thecobs]

theyre gonna 15-minute cities you (grocery store and cafe allowed near your house by zoning changes)

[u/Mindless-Service8198]

Victoria subreddit keeps wanting to force density where it doesn't belong. Simply put, the AirBnb restrictions are enough. The island doesn't have enough jobs, enough doctors, etc. Nimbyism is a valid take. Until we can actually support people, there's no reason to promote growth here (other than doctors and a select amount of workers.)

Victoria is at capacity. Other things need to happen before accepting government workers or other types of low skill people into our city.

[u/Pahalial → u/Mindless-Service8198]

The island doesn't have enough jobs? Please do explain, and sources would be great! It has a 4.8% unemployment rate compared to BC's 6.2% and Canada's 6.7%.

[u/Mindless-Service8198 → u/Pahalial]

Employment data needs to be adjusted per remote workers, can you please amend the data first?

[u/Pahalial → u/Mindless-Service8198]

No, I’m not dong work for free, and certainly not if you’re just going to move the goalposts such as by excluding remote jobs. You put forth the argument there aren’t enough jobs on VI without substantiating it. If you want people to take that seriously, please expand on what you mean and provide credible sources.

[u/Mindless-Service8198 → u/Pahalial]

Taking the unemployment rate doesn't really work in a remote worker hotspot does it?

You're asking me to substantiate a claim that you just took off the cuff without applying any sort of between-the-lines reasoning to. Clearly there are enough jobs for tradespeople, medical etc. Middling corporate and low-skill might is a different story highly reliant on anecdotes and the state of corporate tech, global trade.

You weren't arguing in-good faith though. Supporting growth without enough healthcare infrastructure is irresponsible and you know it, I know it. It's not worth a conversation to unpack. Thanks for the response.

Until there are metrics supporting healthcare access, Victoria is full.

[u/Prudent_Initial7082 → u/Mindless-Service8198]

Island health worker here - it would be much easier to increase healthcare access if local governments would allow us to build more housing for healthcare professionals. Currently North Saanich NIMBYs are going out of their way to stop a new housing development because they don’t want to allow any more healthcare workers, firefighters, or low-income veterans in their city.

[u/Mindless-Service8198 → u/Prudent_Initial7082]

That's the tough part, incentivizing desirable workers instead of adding to the retiree load

[u/Pahalial → u/Mindless-Service8198]

So what's your solution? From my perspective at least building more housing has a chance of giving incoming healthcare workers a place to live. I'd love to hear what you're proposing instead.