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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I'd guess your not old enough to have to worry about what your going to live on in ten years when you are no longer wanted in the work force.
I bought a beaten up craphole fifteen years ago and worked my arse of to renovate it, it's current price is absurd and I fully expect around a 30% drop in the next few years if we're lucky 50 if unlucky. There's sod all point in complaining about house prices anywhere, I have no more God given right to live in London than Vancouver.
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I have no idea what you said in this entire post. Except that you bought your house at an unbelievably opportune time when the average house in Vancouver cost $400k and is now worth $1.4M fifteen years later.
Source.
What does my age or your age have to do with anything? No I'm not old enough to worry about what I'm going to live on in retirement. I'm young enough to know I'll never be able to own a house in Vancouver. You wouldn't be able to afford one today either, by your own admission. What are you getting at?
I don't feel a "god given right" to live in Vancouver. It would be nice if it was at least possible though, as it is clearly a very desirable place to live. I would
kill to be able to buy a detached grow-op for <$400k and work my arse off to gut it. What makes you think prices will drop 30-50%? I highly doubt it. How long have you been saying that?
All this is irrelevant though as your initial post, you laugh
at people who say Vancouver is expensive because London is more expensive. One being true doesn't mean the other is false. When I lived in Paris was I allowed to comment on how expensive it was (it was)? Or not, because Hong Kong is more expensive?