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Here as in Kitchener, you can buy a shack type house (one to two bedrooms, tiny) for around $150, but for a nice house you’re looking at around $500,000. In Waterloo, lets just say the houses are alot more. There are people in Waterloo who are looking to move to Wellesley (small town close by) to get away from outragously high property taxes. (Stupid RIM park and stupid government.)
Snapdragon wrote:I know we’re talking US$ here, but just as a comparison, you can’t buy a dump for $250K here. You have to spend between 350-400K to get a decent house now. 350K US = 290K CDN.
The area where I am is even worse. A decent 3 BR 2BA house is ~$800k…and that would only be ~1400 sq. ft….
For 800k, I saw a humongous house with about 50 acres of land (I think)… Plus it had it’s own 4 br guest house in back… Daaaang….
St. Albert is 5x worse than Edmonton, and it’s simply another city connected to Edmonton.
But, move 10 miles outside into Sturgeon County (where I grew up) and you can have an entire farm for the same price.
I have friends who live in Hawaii (he’s in the Navy) and $250,000 doesn’t even buy a shack there. I visited last year and my friend showed me ranch houses that even in NJ wouldn’t go for more than $200,000 and they were listed and selling for $900,000 or more! And I am not talking about houses on the beach – these were houses miles inland. Which would be why families who bought their homes decades ago before the Japanese influx shot up the house prices who now have 2 – 3 generations crowded into the same house. Mom, Dad and kids will share a bedroom just because the adult kids can’t afford to leave home! It’s a sad situation. My friends had been planning to buy a house when they went out there since he gets a pretty good housing stipend for living in Hawaii but they would have had to raid their 2 sons’ college fund for the downpayment and they refused to do that.
drag0nfeathers wrote:Hehe, I’m also very torn on what to buy at Grandio with the 25% coupon. a black and gold momma dragon or a ruby scratching dragon. I really want an emperor but I just can’t do it right now. I only have 2 black and golds, (a male and a fledge) but on the other hand, I’ll have ALL the rubies if I get the scratcher. *sigh*
Sorry to bring this back to Windstones, but if I were you, I’d get the scratcher. Black Gold will be around for longer than ruby, I think. And finishing sets is always cool, even if you can’t display them. 🙂
I do not think you could touch a house in the SF bay area for under $800K at least not in a nice area
That’s quite true…its kind of crazy how expensive houses have gotten around here. It hard to imagine that houses in SF only cost $30k-$50k back in the early 70’s…
That’s what I keep telling my parents — if they had bought a few extra houses back then, I might not have to be working now! 😆
Even when a home is pretty cheap, it doesn’t mean it is affordable depending on the area you live in. My uncle just bought a large house with several acres of land in Tennessee for 150,000+ Seems like a great deal, right? Not really. The medium income in the area is extremely low, and finding jobs is near impossible. The only reason they moved there is because his wife was guaranteed a job working in a medical office while he is currently working at a McDonalds many miles from his home.
I think those would make great retirement homes, but if there isn’t much work and little pay, even 100+ is extremely expensive for a young family looking to purchase a home in certain areas.That’s true, its all relative…and it sounds like areas like that would be a good area to retire for someone who’s moving there from a much more expensive area (like California).
I wonder if areas like that will be eventually be populated by people who are able to telecommute to areas with more jobs/higher pay? Though if that happened then the house prices would probably get driven up…
Wow, I didn’t think anyone was posting on this one! LOL!
I’m in the wrong state by the look of it! HAHA! Glad to see I’m not the only place with overpriced housing though! *sigh* I told my sister if she wants that house she can buy it with someone else and the conversation kind of ended. She doesn’t want the one I like and I don’t like hers. I guess we’ll just have to keep on looking once we calm down enough to talk about it some more.
Thanks everyone!
Oh…..and I still haven’t bought anything at Grandio =) Now I want an Emperor 😛
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry Dragonsdrag0nfeathers wrote:I told my sister if she wants that house she can buy it with someone else and the conversation kind of ended. She doesn’t want the one I like and I don’t like hers. I guess we’ll just have to keep on looking once we calm down enough to talk about it some more.
Well, I think you did the right thing — its a big decision. And buying a house with someone else isn’t easy. Have you thought about getting a smaller place that you could afford on your own?
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