What If We Have To Move To The SubSubSuburbs?
We are in the market for a house. This, of course, is exciting, wonderful, a very big step. We are extremely lucky to have been put into a position where home ownership is possible. For some it is a dream that will never come true.
Especially in Vancouver!
The MLS pages are our new reading material. I must say "you have got to be kidding" fifty times a day. Cracker boxes on a miniscule plot wedged between two other cracker boxes on similar plots are being listed for $600 000! And they are selling! Forget character, forget charm, forget space, privacy or even pride of ownership. Basically for a half a million dollars in East Van, one gets either a really ugly Vancouver special, or a dump built in 1921, and renovated in 1950.
I've found some gorgeous properties for upwards of $800 000. In Nova Scotia, where grew up, a million bucks would buy a relative mansion on twenty acres, with manicured lawns, mature trees, maybe a pond, outbuildings, and space!
So we have faced the frightening fact that our dollars will go much, much further out in the suburbs. **Shudder**. This is what we get for saying we will never leave East Van, that we are urban Dykes, and you would never catch us living in the burbs.
Yeah 'k. Never say never. Port Moody, Port Coquitlam....they are looking more like realistic locations all the time. Poor Angelina may develop hives. The subs are so not ready for a family like ours.
I guess this means in future I could be blogging about Kirby's PoCo Harem.
Especially in Vancouver!
The MLS pages are our new reading material. I must say "you have got to be kidding" fifty times a day. Cracker boxes on a miniscule plot wedged between two other cracker boxes on similar plots are being listed for $600 000! And they are selling! Forget character, forget charm, forget space, privacy or even pride of ownership. Basically for a half a million dollars in East Van, one gets either a really ugly Vancouver special, or a dump built in 1921, and renovated in 1950.
I've found some gorgeous properties for upwards of $800 000. In Nova Scotia, where grew up, a million bucks would buy a relative mansion on twenty acres, with manicured lawns, mature trees, maybe a pond, outbuildings, and space!
So we have faced the frightening fact that our dollars will go much, much further out in the suburbs. **Shudder**. This is what we get for saying we will never leave East Van, that we are urban Dykes, and you would never catch us living in the burbs.
Yeah 'k. Never say never. Port Moody, Port Coquitlam....they are looking more like realistic locations all the time. Poor Angelina may develop hives. The subs are so not ready for a family like ours.
I guess this means in future I could be blogging about Kirby's PoCo Harem.
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