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Originally Posted by blankall
It's an issue that from the outside, it's considered "Vancouver" but from the inside it's not. It's like that in any city though. If you had someone from NYC talk about various metro areas, they would not consider them NYC. Meanwhile us outsideers would.
Vancouver is also unique among those cities in that the cost of housing in places that are an 1.5 hours out is still astronomical. This is true regardless of how nice the properties or neighbourhoods are. Even in NYC you can find houses in bad subburb areas that are cheap. Not so much in Vancouver. Even a house in a run down area of Langley will cost an arm a leg. Houses in PoCo are starting at (or at least they were a couple of months ago) at over a million now.
Factor in salaries and Vancouver is even more unique.
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You can still by a piece of crap three bedroom on a standard lot in maple ridge for 400,000 granted that's a dumpy looking thing but they're there.
First house I bought was a tear down with a leaky basement, that's just were you start here. Maybe coming from London made it easier for me to accept the compromises you have to make but there's no way I'd spend 500,000 on a townhouse in maple ridge, the whole point of buying there is get a bit of land with a crap house on it, pay down the mortgage, do some work on the house, make sure the wife has no part in the choosing of it!!