^not disagreeing, but then again a friend was looking at buying a house in the suburbs of Quebec City for 60k (it was somewhere around there I forget I actual number). Try getting that here in expensive BC
When I visited Quebec City earlier this year there were plenty of 10+ year old cars. Not saying they were spotless, but they were in pretty good shape. It certainly wasn't 40 years ago when the car was headed to the scrap yard after 5 years
Regardless, ICBC is piss poor managed to have the highest insurance rates in the country. What do you expect when the government manages anything and they have no incentive to keep costs down when they have a monopoly