[QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;31422611]Don't forget the nuclear hardened missile silos that range from 150-300k.
[url]http://www.missilebases.com/ocillageorgia[/url][/QUOTE]
It would be awesome to live in one of those
If you jinx it before I move out, I'll have you hanged.
You would not believe how amazingly cheap real-estate is in Michigan. If you're fast and smart, you can easily jump on a foreclosure for even better deals.
We bought a foreclosure, fixed it up and are not renting it. Free money.
Move to Vancouver where a basement suite can cost you three grand a month in a grittier part of town.
It could be because America's housing market collapsed and Australia's didn't.
[QUOTE=TheLocoMofo;31422427]
but the website I got that from might be bullshit, it says this is a 4 bedroom:
[img]http://cdn.homes.com/cgi-bin/readimage/872361779[/img][/QUOTE]
4 closet more likely.
That American house is still really expensive compared to the houses we have here. Here you can get a way better house for half the price.
Any fellow Brits want to club together and buy back a colony?
American architects are color blind. The only colors they know how to use are browns and gray-scale.
Yeah but I wouldn't want to live in some lego house with 80 colors either, to be honest.
[QUOTE=CBastard;31423149]Any fellow Brits want to club together and buy back a colony?[/QUOTE]
Lets go for the cheaper one, no convicts!
What bout living in cities area? Like Flats? Also, why do people keep saying staying in a flat in the US is shit, Especially New York.
[QUOTE=n0cturni;31423332]Yeah but I wouldn't want to live in some lego house with 80 colors either, to be honest.[/QUOTE]
As boring as it sounds I think houses should be plain. When I see the odd house painted bright pink it looks really wrong to me.
[QUOTE=n0cturni;31423332]Yeah but I wouldn't want to live in some lego house with 80 colors either, to be honest.[/QUOTE]
It's not a dichotomy. Having color on your house doesn't mean you slap a rainbow on it.
[QUOTE=Jsm;31423494]As boring as it sounds I think houses should be plain. When I see the odd house painted bright pink it looks really wrong to me.[/QUOTE]
wow really
[QUOTE=Pace.;31422659]People dont live in dorms in aus. Also, people dont move out as early in the US, people here move out at like 25.
and 200,000 for a 3 bedroom is unbelievably cheap. 200,000 doesnt even get you a studio apartment in sydney. a 3 bedroom is at least 600,000 and thats if you live in the west of sydney, which isnt that great of an area.[/QUOTE]
You live in dorms in university, and like hell. I moved out when I was 18, don't give me that 'Americans don't move out as early' crap.
90% of the people 18 and older I know have already moved out.
And for YOU it's cheap. For us, it isn't cheap. 200,000 is a lot of damn money.
If you hate Australia so much move.
Depends on where you're trying to buy a house in the states, generally the north-east can be pretty expensive. The southeast is usually very cheap for what you get, large house, large amount of land. Same can go for most of the midwest and southwest, California's housing market ranges from iffy to shitty.
It's all dependent on location though, if you're willing to live in the middle of nowhere you can get a mansion for under $400,000.
[QUOTE=sltungle;31422525]Yup, house prices are fucking ridiculous. Unfortunate, but true.
Your best bet is to buy a plot of land in a developing area and build a house. I live in Point Cook, Melbourne. This part of the suburb didn't exist 4 or so years ago, but my family put a house up here along with everyone else at the time, and all of a sudden there's basically an entire new suburb (Point Cook was probably originally... 1/2... if not 1/3 the size it is now). Cost us like 360K in total (land, house and all)... I think.
I hate whenever I try to tell Americans how good they have it (incredibly fast internet that with high data caps (if any at all) that's cheap, cheap houses, lower general cost of living) that they always respond angrily with something like, "just because you have it bad doesn't mean we should have it bad too!" or, "it's still not easy living!" You can probably feed an entire family for a month in America for what it'd cost to feed one or two people over here for a week![/QUOTE]
I'd gladly pay more to not live in America
The value of my home has gone up a lot from when my dad bought it in the 70's. He bought it for $30,000 when some guy ran out of money. Now it's worth about 600,000 since this area is so well desired (it's close to town). That's why I don't want to sell it. I'll just inherit the house.
everything in northern Massachusetts is million-dollar mansions
for fucks sake i'm the last decent sized house on my street
[QUOTE=Pace.;31422464]Also explain this americans, how can a house be $15,000?
[url]http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3254-S-181st-St_Seatac_WA_98188_M10570-64587?source=web[/url]
we have parking spaces, literally parking spaces that cost that much in sydney city.[/QUOTE]
A lot of the homes you see in the United States that are dirt cheap are foreclosed homes.
Edit: Also, I have a 4br, 3 bath house in Tucson that we bought for 160k :v:
There is a gigantic real estate bubble in Sydney, that is why things are so expensive. As soon as it bursts I'd hate to be a home-owner
It seems like half of Canada moved to Arizona because of their dirt cheap real estate.
I mean seriously, during the summer I bet the Canadian population outweighs the native population there.
Stuff in Canada can get quite pricey aswell. It all depends on the area where you purchase the place.
[QUOTE=Mister Cool;31423812]It seems like half of Canada moved to Arizona because of their dirt cheap real estate.
I mean seriously, during the summer I bet the Canadian population outweighs the native population there.[/QUOTE]
DUDE, my neighbor is Canadian, they only live here in the winter though so we park in their driveway and use their pool without them knowing :v:
It depends on where you live. In my neighborhood their were 3bedroom town houses selling for 1.2 mil but then the price dropped down to 700,000
It's because there are so many people trying to sell their houses and so few trying to buy houses. Prices are going down because people are getting desperate to sell their houses which have been on the market for probably 2 years now with no buyers
las vegas is ridic cheap right now
4 bedroom 35k
[QUOTE=Rubs10;31423236]American architects are color blind. The only colors they know how to use are browns and gray-scale.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/FsVsg.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/o0MVP.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/777NP.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/P6nc4.png[/img]
all of these houses are on my street within my own block.
and every house near me, even the really small ones, sell for at least 600 grand.
It all depends on location location location, you really can't generalize an entire country based on one really low-priced area (probably a shithole to live in too)
Depends on how you want to look at it.
Each country has its own currency and cost of living, minimum wages, taxes and all that. It also depends on where you wish to live too.
I can get a 3,000-4,000 square foot of living space in a upper class living area for 220,000-250,000USD in Kansas, while the same house might cost 400,000-600,000 USD in Washington state.
It is a supply and demand thing, also depends on the seller and the market. It goes up and down. Things might look cheaper, but in the end they're not. Its pretty shitty right now though, it is extremely hard to get a loan for a house and the rates are fucking crazy you end up paying 800-900 dollars to the loan and maybe 100 dollars actually goes to principle. I've been though the process of buying and selling houses, people need to learn to buy they KNOW they can afford, not what they think they can afford later on. You end up going house broke and slaving for a stupid fucking house.
Grass always look greener on the other side.