"The median income rose to $34,204."

That explains house prices in Vancouver, its median income similar to the national one.

Obviously workers in Vancouver walk in banks and say "Hi, I would like a mortgage for 50 times my annual salary to buy a house, please", and the bankers are saying "Very good, sign here".

It IS NOT overseas money skyrocketing the house prices there.

And curiously, in nearby Richmond, with similarly expensive houses, the median income is a few thousand dollars lower. So obviously local workers there are asking for mortgages of 60 times their annual salaries.

It IS NOT overseas money skyrocketing the house prices there, either.

In those two places, also curiously, of the many dozens of languages, it's only the two languages of China and the languages of Russia and Iran where you see a massive gap, by many thousands, of more adult females present than adult males.

SURELY that has nothing to do with parachute families, where dad works overseas.

(Sarcasm off)