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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
$550K - $750K gets you a decent place in the inner city, not just tear down shacks... The myth is exactly what Darklord says that you have to be a millionaire to be down here but the reality is that you don't.
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You can get livable space in inner city. But the unmitigated fact is that you almost always get more house in the burb for the same amount of money.
If you want to exchange living space, yards etc. for commute time, that's your decision. Just don't pretend the previlege of short commute time costs you nothing.
I live in the burb, Edgemont, even that location costs me some house. I can buy a lot more house in a further area like Rocky Ridge, or Airdre, or Okotoks. But that's the concession I make by living in Edgemont and not those areas. Everything is relative, for the same amount of money, you gain location but give up on houses.
You buy the house that suites you need. I don't understand why the hip downtown living crowd has to gloat about their abiility to ditch cars.