Paul Shen can tick off the reasons Mainland Chinese people buy property in Canada as surely as any f
Paul Shen can tick off the reasons Mainland Chinese people buy property in Canada as surely as any fast-talking B.C. realtor.
Some long to escape the fouled earth and soupy air of their country’s teeming cities he explains while others are following relatives to enclaves so well-populated by other Chinese expats they hardly feel like foreigners.
The richest of course regard homes in the West as stable vessels for disposable cash but Shen lays no claim to such affluence.
Last spring the 39-year-old left behind his middle-management advertising job in Shanghai to seek the dream of home ownership he and his wife couldn’t afford in their home city. “We just followed our hearts to begin a totally different life” he tells Maclean’s adding: “We can make the house dream come true in Canada.”