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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
Ha! I'm sure. Remember, though, that people make a lot less here and there is no universal healthcare. Cities like Boston, New York, San Francisco, etc. would have much higher-cost housing than New Orleans as well.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
An $320K condo? Gold walls, or what?
Ieeps!
*crawls back under his rock*
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The housing market has dropped quite a bit where I live, but 320k is still typical for an older (55+years) 2 BR condo and new ones in the same area are typically 500,000
Downtown Vancouver, much higher, and West Vancouver, well a wee studio is over 1/2 a million.
http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13559662
And while we do have medicare it is not paid for by property taxes, wages are about the same as New Orleans and overall cost of living is far higher excluding housing, which is perhaps the second least affordable in the world.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...orld-1.2505524
I was fortunate to buy when I did. Pretty sure covingtoncat73 will be saying the same thing one of these days.
Helen