Dear editor,While I fully agree with Andy MacDougall's (Record, Feb. 3) of the fact that our perceived poverty and the need for culture and media-driven products and services are what are making more of us cash-poor, I find a sad correlation to an article on the previous page that states that yet another rise in real estate values is somehow a good thing.I am tired of hearing that the rise in the cost of basic shelter is a sign that we in the Comox Valley are doing better. If you cannot afford to pay your rent and feed yourself and your family then nothing else matters.By glorifying the rise in real estate values and ignoring the impact of increasing tax rates on those that have lived here all their lives and by shutting out those that would love to stay here, we are committing a grave disservice to the future of this beautiful valley many of us call home.Robert McMillan,Comox Valley
