Congratulations Vancouver!

[Tik-Tok]

You're the 13th most un-affordable housing in the world!

25 Most unaffordable housing the in the world, here. (http://efinancedirectory.com/articles/8_Areas_in_the_U.S._Known_as_the_Most_Unaffordable_Housing_Markets_in_the_World.html)

[G-ZUS]

theres goes my plans of moving to Orange County or Miami:thumbsdow

[rmk]

It costs alot to live in a fantastic city. Vancouver rocks :thumbsup:

[eblend]

Sweet, moving to Japan doesn't seem like a bad idea at all :D

[boxer23]

wow that report has a lot of cities missing...so i deem it WRONG:D
VAN here i come haha jk

[modded46]

CA for the WIN!!

[HybridTheory]

Well here's to hoping that I win the lottery so I can move to Cali or Australia

[RiCE-DaDDy]

A study (forbes?) said that Van had the most expensive downtown in the world based on $/sq ft. Calgary was up there too.


It costs alot to live in a fantastic city. Vancouver rocks

Overrated. I was born in cgy, and I agree vancouver is a better place to live but its over hyped man.

[max_boost]

I thought New York would be ranked higher a lot higher? I was bored and looked at some of the condos for sale and the going rate is around $1000/sq.ft in Manhattan. I can't even imagine how much an actual house with some land would cost :rofl: I love the City so much but I can forget about ever moving there at that price.

[Antonito]

Originally posted by RiCE-DaDDy

Overrated. I was born in cgy, and I agree vancouver is a better place to live but its over hyped man.

Vancouver is a great place to live if you make more than $150,000 a year. Otherwise you'll have to

A) live in the farm lands and drive 2 hours each way to work and/or the ocean/mountains/whatever people actually enjoy about Vancouver

B) bullshit your way to a mortgage that costs 60% of your gross income

C) Rent, and cry yourself to sleep every night dreaming that one day you'll be able to live in a place where your bedroom wall isn't joined to someone elses, and isn't thin enough to hear your neighbour thinking

[The Cosworth]

Originally posted by Antonito


Vancouver is a great place to live if you make more than $150,000 a year. Otherwise you'll have to

A) live in the farm lands and drive 2 hours each way to work and/or the ocean/mountains/whatever people actually enjoy about Vancouver

B) bullshit your way to a mortgage that costs 60% of your gross income

C) Rent, and cry yourself to sleep every night dreaming that one day you'll be able to live in a place where your bedroom wall isn't joined to someone elses, and isn't thin enough to hear your neighbour thinking

I moved from Calgary thinking that BC was the promised land of beauty and affordability (compared to Calgary's crazy market increase). I can tell you it is still worse to live here. I am doing pretty well in my position and they want me to move to Vancouver next year and I will be living in Abbotsford/Surrey/Delta/Chilliwack/Hope and driving into Burnaby near Metrotown every day..... NO THANKS!

Currently I live in Vernon, if you're vacationing or retiring this place is the shit. If you work everyday the social scene is horrid and it is more expensive than Calgary I found

I am moving back to Calgary at my first chance at a good position in my field.

Enough Said.

[rage2]

Originally posted by max_boost
I thought New York would be ranked higher a lot higher? I was bored and looked at some of the condos for sale and the going rate is around $1000/sq.ft in Manhattan. I can't even imagine how much an actual house with some land would cost :rofl: I love the City so much but I can forget about ever moving there at that price.
But NY'ers make a lot more money on average, I'm sure they used that in their affordability calculations.

[zieg]

I hate living here. I live right by the beach and for what I pay for my 600 sq. ft apartment, I could probably rent a decent house in Calgary for less. :(

[JRSC00LUDE]

Yeah, I couldn't believe how high the prices have got there. I love going to Vancouver but I don't think I'll ever live there.

Wifes cousin bought a condo in Yaletown last year, approx 1200 sq. ft. but also approx $860K. :eek: Sure, it's a great building in the trendy part of town but yikes!

[RiCE-DaDDy]

Originally posted by brendankharris


I moved from Calgary thinking that BC was the promised land of beauty and affordability (compared to Calgary's crazy market increase). I can tell you it is still worse to live here. I am doing pretty well in my position and they want me to move to Vancouver next year and I will be living in Abbotsford/Surrey/Delta/Chilliwack/Hope and driving into Burnaby near Metrotown every day..... NO THANKS!

Currently I live in Vernon, if you're vacationing or retiring this place is the shit. If you work everyday the social scene is horrid and it is more expensive than Calgary I found

I am moving back to Calgary at my first chance at a good position in my field.

Enough Said.

Not to mention its road infrastructure is garbage compared to Calgary or its plans to improve them.

[Antonito]

Originally posted by RiCE-DaDDy


Not to mention its road infrastructure is garbage compared to Calgary or its plans to improve them.

What, you don't think spending almost a billion dollars to replicate one of the worst bridges in the country while only adding an extra 1' of width was a good idea?

:banghead: :banghead:

[RiCE-DaDDy]

Originally posted by max_boost
I thought New York would be ranked higher a lot higher? I was bored and looked at some of the condos for sale and the going rate is around $1000/sq.ft in Manhattan. I can't even imagine how much an actual house with some land would cost :rofl: I love the City so much but I can forget about ever moving there at that price.

It's been quoted that some places in DT van is $1500/sqft

[590221010]

I saw a thing on the news comparing Calgary , some place in Ontario I forgot(probably Toronto), and Vancouver's average housing price a year or two ago and Vancouver was so high it was like $600,xxx. It's pretty crazy I wonder why the news never talks about Vancouver's market.

[xenofire]

it made me laugh to see auckland on there. it was expensive to live there however only half of the city is like that. Some places are complete dives, however i was living in an area much like upper edgemont and it wasnt unaforable