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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Why jump to the extremes? Take the $500k, add the $130K I mentioned, and you can find a nicely renovated 1600sq ft house on a good sized lot within a 10 minute bike of downtown.
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Where do you find a 630K 1600 sq ft single house withint 10 mintues biking distance in Calgary?
For 620K, you get this within biking distance.
http://www.joeviani.com/1110-3-CALGARY-AB/C3609965/CREB
or for 600K, you get this outside of biking distance.
http://www.remax.ca/ab/calgary-real-...id92564334-lst
You always pay more for the biking distance, it's not free. Who wouldn't want to live in a fully renovated 1600 sq ft single house in Kensington? Because such house doesn't exist in Calgary today. So people live in Okotoks and Airdrie not because they are dumb but this is just the fact.
Also, can you bike your kids to school in -20C? If you have not kids or aren't even married, fine, you can live in a 800 sq ft apartment and bike to work. All the power to you.
But I and many people aren't willing to stuff four people and a dog in a 800 sq ft aprtment just so that I can bike/walk/crawl to work and school. And we are not dumb living in the subs.