This is the country we live in...and I am ashamed of a story like this.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Flyover's not better or worse, just different. I work in the center of a "metropolis" that checks in at just under 200,000 people. I can park pretty much anywhere I want at any time. The biggest nuisance is the way the essentially suburban/rural folks around here go into complete meltdown when they have to drive downtown. The one-way streets and big buildings freak them out...often resulting in behaviors like driving 5 MPH, stopping at green lights and general freakishness. And yeah, unlike NYC, there isn't shit to do around here.

 

Hey JR you should se it out here on the west coast. It's absolutely ridiculous, a middle class home in the suburbs starts at around 500,000

 

Cool, that's the same price I am paying for my first home, a 461-sq ft studio condo in DC.

 

C'mon Junkie, that's plain silly.

Other cities don't have MOMO, the Guggenheim, the best restaurants in North America, the Met, Broadway, off-Broadway, just to start. Besides other cities are not New York.

It's like Canadians who say "Why go to Toronto?I can do everything here in Podunk, Saskatchewan."

 

To the very rich, and there are a lot of those in cities like NY, $125,000 is nothing. Its a rounding error on their statement of investments.

When you pay $20 million for an apartment in NYC, whats another $125,000?

 

Are you talking BC or California?

Here's what $500,000 gets you in the west end of Toronto, bordering on the 'burbs

 

what is that.. 1,500 feet and a one-car garage?

 

increaslingly, the new york times is comforting the comfortable on its real estate pages.

from another recent ny times story:

life sure is a bitch when you live in hawaii making 700K a year and need to buy condo in nyc because of your 8-year-old son's modeling career.

i understand it's nyc. i also live in an large, expensive east coast city. i know real estate is expensive.

 

No more than 1500 I'd imagine.

 

My house, here in the Toronto 'burbs, is probably the same size and vintage as that one JR posted. We moved in 10 years ago last week and based on what other houses on my street sell for is worth almost twice what we paid for it. It's nuts.