Vancouver the least affordable city
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Topic: Vancouver the least affordable city
Posted By: choopie911
Subject: Vancouver the least affordable city
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 11:35am
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http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Vancouver+home+prices+rated+most+unaffordable/2482683/story.html - Now it's official
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 1:52pm
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How are the rent prices?
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 1:58pm
I have a one bedroom almost an hour from downtown for $800 a month, but the closer you get to downtown, expect it to go up to about $1500-$1800 or so per month. Plus tv/ internet/ electricity/ phone (cell or land) Just saw http://www.vancouversun.com/life/city+small+condos+Micro+lofts+come+Vancouver/2474576/story.html - this link on that story. Micro lofts are planned for Vancouver, 270 square feet for $923... less than half of the space I half, for $123 more. Thanks downtown. |
Benjichang wrote:Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 1:59pm
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Damn...
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:00pm
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Why? ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:08pm
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High population density crammed between the ocean and the mountains.
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:11pm
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Its all about location. In any downtown atmosphere you are going to sacrifice space and pay a higher price. My apartment here in West Lafayette IN is $800 a month for a 2 bedroom. -------------  |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:12pm
That's crazy cheap compared to here. My last place was $1200 for a 2 bedroom, also an hour out of town. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:13pm
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Good god, for that kind of money, you could actually live someplace decent.... ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:14pm
| Well considering we've also been voted the best city in the world to live in, I think I do. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:15pm
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You guys are gonna feel really stupid when the pacific plate finally slips and you wake up underwater. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:32pm
Meh, better to die a watery death in Vancouver than live in the flatlands. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:38pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:39pm
Its on the expensive end here since Im a block from campus  ------------- |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:43pm
Yeah, so was that one, on Burnaby Mountain hill, where sfu is.
You wouldn't happen to be one of those people that insists their city/ country is the greatest without ever being anywhere else are you? |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:44pm
Oh. I thought an hour from town meant the campus too. ------------- |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:56pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 2:59pm
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I miss the two bedroom single story townhouse I had for $675 a month. Wasn't a bad part of town either.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 3:06pm
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 3:10pm
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Location, Location, Location. Just like any metro the closer to 'downtown' the higher the cost. NYC-Westchester County-White Plains- Orange County, same formula. Again closer to a major arterial to metro higher price Fremont, NE to Omaha on 275 prices tripled when 275 was finished as a 4 lane.
And then when the community is isolated, and no work, prices plummet, Davenport, NY the house I own was worth $315,000 when Oneonta was booming, now that jobs are scarce and Delaware County classified as depresed, could not sell the house for $95,000. So welcome to the real world. ------------- 
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 3:27pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 3:39pm
Welcome to the real world? We all get how pricing works, and that closer to town = more expensive, and that supply/ demand obviously affects it.
This winter has actually been stupid warm. I wore my jacket again for the first time for about a month because it's been too warm for it otherwise. Hoodie weather at worst. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 3:45pm
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:16pm
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I could not imagine living in California for that matter. Honestly what does Cali offer that other states don't. A ocean and good weed? And your still payin up the ass to live a hour away from the ocean? No thank you. ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:22pm
Plus it might actually be in danger of falling off into the ocean. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:29pm
So geographical location is all that matters? Not the city itself? Its culture? Ammenities? etc? |
Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 4:29pm
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If Cali gets the "big one" we are all screwed. ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 5:26pm
Lol culture? |
Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 5:33pm
What I look in a city is pretty simple. Laws, taxes, traffic, job oppurtunity, and price of living. ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 6:30pm
In many cases culture follows location. I.e. A good location drives up prices because of supply and demand which results in a general rise in the incomes in an area and the people associated with those higher incomes create a market for the "culture" which follows them in. (Simplified explanation but basically accurate; I will add that sometimes the cycle of location/money/culture becomes self-sustaining and leads to prices really getting out of control/inflated.) ------------- 
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Posted By: God
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 6:46pm
| cry moar :P |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 6:50pm
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If you're smart you'll buy a bunch of empty inland property just east of the fault line, and just wait and sit on it. The big one hits, and bam, you're sitting on acres and acres of prime beachfront.
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 7:18pm
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$800/month for the 3 bedroom down here in FL. Choop, whats the driving time between SFU and Seattle? If I get an internship in Seattle I'll likely be making quite a few trips to SFU. |
Posted By: God
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 7:25pm
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Thinking of visiting a forumer that attends there? Use the Mapquest.
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 7:29pm
Nope. I know the Mapquest time, but the actual time is usually quite a bit different (especially at those distances). |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 January 2010 at 9:13pm
About 3 hours or so, depending on the border and traffic I guess |
Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 2:00am
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I am living in Victoria it pricing is also crazy, but I got a decent place. Its one bedroom but its really big, and its got a dishwasher im paying $900, it includes nothing, and it about 20 min walk to down town. My brother lives in vancouver between UBC and downtown, he pays about the same price, though his place is smaller and his heat is free. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 2:58am
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Texas is just a crazy cheap place to live. My buddy had a very nice two bedroom apartment for 650, all expenses paid off of Hulen in fort worth.
Another friend of mine rented a house for 900 a month. ------------- 
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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 4:41am
I disagree. Cali is an economic black hole. It dropping off into the ocean would probably help. ------------- 
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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 4:43am
Wasn't that a Lex Luthor scheme from the first Superman movie? -------------
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 3:03pm
Except for having one of the busiest harbors in the world.  ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 5:43pm
Well then Arizona or Nevada would have the busiest harbor. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 5:50pm
Meh, in the "busiest harbours" game, cali isn't close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_busiest_port - busy harbours |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 6:57pm
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There's this other problem that California is a huge portion of both the US economy and population. If it fell off into the ocean, we'd be in serious doo-doo.
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 8:01pm
Link broken.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 January 2010 at 7:24pm
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