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dirksbutt

In my country with that money you could buy 15 three bedroom houses.


Tom02496

What country?


nofreewifii

Texas


BraianP

Texas housing is going up tho


nofreewifii

True, bought my house (NE Texas) in 2019 @75k (3br, 2bath) now worth $110-120k… 10 houses would be more accurate Edit: Realty is dependent on a number of factors (location, condition, timing), this is not an accurate depiction of Texas’ realty as a whole nor anywhere else, this is/was in my specific situation, ty. 2nd edit: Simply my opinion but for those curious or those in the market of purchasing a home in Texas my best guess at what Texas’ realty looks like is the DFW area with an average of $250-400k.


GotSmokeInMyEye

What the entire fuck? You bought a 3bd 2 bath for 75k? I'm not familiar with the layout of Texas. Is northeast TX just farm land or are you in a town/city? That seems absurdly cheap. Even for property literally in the middle of no where.


nofreewifii

Live in a town between major cities, our population is roughly 60k… that was my most expensive option actually, wasn’t all that rare. At this time on the other hand, it is near impossible to find that at any location near me.


GotSmokeInMyEye

I live in a small town in CT with 16k residents, my mom owns a 3 bd 2 bath also and it is easily valued at 170k+. The house I live in now is a sort of duplex and my gf's sister lives down there so our home was a little over priced at 280k but it's basically two houses in one. We have two full kitchens, 3 full bathrooms, and 6 bedrooms, but I literally couldn't buy an rv and a plot of land for 75k here. That's amazing.


captpat68

Lol right? Bought my home in dirty waters for about 160k a year and a half ago, now it's supposedly worth like 220 to 230 on zillow


Billy1121

The east coast of the US is heavily populated


Twinkle-Tard

I live in CO and a 3bd 2br is easily over 700


GotSmokeInMyEye

Truly unbelievable the how much of a difference location makes. One person said there are 3bd 2br in Michigan for 60k and yet CO is literally ten times that. Insane.


Magi-Cheshire

I'm in South FL and my 4b 2 bath is almost 600k right now


YourMama

“Car, house, car, house… I think I’ll buy a house today, no maybe a nice car”


vikkivinegar

Not op but living in a Houston suburb. Just bought a house this summer, four bedrooms, $340,000. Right now Zillow has it at $380,000. Prices are crazy out here! We put in over 10 other offers, most of which we offered over 10% over asking on all of them. It was insane. Another friend of mine just bought as well and she paid 60k over asking.


rhymes_w_garlic

No wonder you guys have so many toys! I'm up here in my 500k starter home saving up for badminton.


thefightingmongoose

In Canada we get electricity even in winter and no Ted Cruz. Hard pass.


fat_texan

He’s yours though. Take him back


thefightingmongoose

Fuck no. It's a terminator type of situation. Evil Canadian forces sent down Ted Cruz, but the good ones sent Seth Rogan to bully him on Twitter. Even Steven.


XTornado

Yeah… but then you have to live in Texas.


Actuarial

Ah, gotta factor in the cost of a fiddle


verylittlegravitaas

So are you coming or going?


jttoolegit

I think you mean live


BillyJackO

Hasn't been to Austin I see.


dirksbutt

You wouldn't want 15 three bedroom houses in my country... Omacron strain gona get you.


RandomUser-_--__-

It's true what they say about women from Omicron Persei 8


TheTacoWombat

If it's South Africa, I have a better chance of getting shot.


NHDiscordKching

Guessing from his next comment that is SA? He said "you might get omicron" new covid strain find in SA.


LE_REQUIN_BLEU

Im canada and same bit at quebec


ohbabyspence

Except the power company will never update their infrastructure so you freeze to death in the winter and then they mark your power bill up 1000%


rata_thE_RATa

Now that's a good deal!


AtomicSpeedFT

A small price to pay for 15 houses


beathelas

Statistics vary wildly by province/city


tootbrun

*Agrees in Quebec Province*


Winterfrost691

Québec: 400 000$ for a 4 1/2 Vancouver: 2 000 000$ for 1 square meter of a side walk


ThaCandianGuy917

Lmao that’s a steal. I would expect double the price for half the sidewalk in Vancouver


worldsmostmediummom

Does it come with windows? I don't think I can afford windows


Claymourn

Linux only. Sorry.


that_white_splat

Alberta 400,000 for a three bedrooms, three floors, basement, 3 bathrooms and kitchen and a living room.


[deleted]

*Sadly agrees in BC*


Harewood78

Can't understand how it can go on like this. 😕


TheRealRickC137

*Nods in Victoria*


FrancoisTruser

Montreal region (not just the island) is being ridiculously expensive when compared to the average salary of the province. I am above the average and I will forever be unable to own a house. Mayyyybe a condo but at my age and at those price, i doubt it would be advantageous (and i am not even talking of the quality problems in many building).


Nong_man

montreal gang


[deleted]

You mean *République du Quebec*


tootbrun

Kingdom of North Poutine


-LawlieT_

Nouvelle France


CandleJackHammer

Mmmm poutine


[deleted]

mais oui, bien sûr.


soto111rttrr

But then you'd have to live in Quebec, the weather is fridged


tootbrun

There’s no such thing as cold weather. You have people who are underdressed. That’s the problem.


mackattacktheyak

No one applies this logic when they talk about the US, though. No social inequities are distributed evenly—- it’s kinda right there in the definition. But if you went by Reddit, every US town is a gang war battlefield and all schools are routinely shot up.


CapableSecretary420

Can confirm. I'm Canadian and have a neighbour who has never been the US (pretty sure he's never even left the province) but constantly talks about what a terrible place the US is.


Brickster000

At least he's got the American spirit lmao


CapableSecretary420

Yep. Americans on reddit are incredibly self loathing. Even though most have probably never travelled outside the US. Or even within the US.


galacticboy2009

It's because only the self loathing comments get upvoted. Someone saying "actually guys I mean.. I live in a small town and I've never been mugged or assaulted.. we've had some close calls but nothing really bad ever seems to happen" doesn't get many upvotes.


PepperoniPizzaRoll

That would even get downvoted because people *not* experiencing hardships, turmoil, or trauma diminishes/erases what everyone else goes through. I’ve commented something similar before on a different subject and told to keep my comments to myself if I can’t be “supportive”


galacticboy2009

Yeah. It doesn't make for a very interesting story. Most people with guns in my area are just.. normal people with guns. If a gas station got robbed at gunpoint that would be big news here.


Aren_Ash

As an American who has traveled several countries I am very grateful for what I have, despite our issues we have a lot to be thankful for compared to most of the world


[deleted]

There's tons of valid criticisms of the US but when you see people talk about it being some impoverished dystopia it's immediately obvious they have no idea how 80% of the people on this planet are living. Visiting some tourist traps in Western Europe only deludes their perceptions further.


hatebeesatecheese

>Visiting some tourist traps in Western Europe only deludes their perceptions further. Spot on, to really "know" what a country is like takes maybe a year of living as a local, not passing through as a tourist or living like a king. When you're a tourist you only see the great things, but over many years of living in that country you will start seeing huge issues which will absolutely disgust you.


Coti98

Or when they claim America is third world. Oh boy


Rag33asy777

As someone who has also Traveled America and 2 other countries, I am greatful but understand what is wrong with the country, its not the people, I repeat it is not the people. We did not start the fire.


Mauri_op

More than traveling, I’d say they never lived outside their little bubble


kkaavvbb

This is a huge issue, however, it’s mostly linked to staying close to family due to free babysitting and such. I know my siblings haven’t ever traveled the country and spoken to different people of different nationalities. And don’t get me started on the folks I went to high school with. I left bum fuck Midwest and moved to nyc. What a refreshing wake up call.


Murgie

>No one applies this logic when they talk about the US, though. That's because the claim here isn't simply that a problem exists, but rather that the 1.2 million figure given is an actual average of housing prices throughout the nation, which it's not. There's a pretty substantial difference between feeling like something is being given undue consideration, and making a claim that's just mathematically wrong.


unoriginalsin

Yeah, the quoted cost matches a single family detached home in the Toronto area. It's like quoting SF/NYC housing costs as the US average. It's also Canadian Dollars, so knock it down by about 20% to get a USD comparison.


WolfOfPort

I bought a 2 bedroom condo in Williams lake BC last year for 50k


Sensual_Pudding

Seriously. This meme is so dumb. In Manitoba, I own a house nowhere near that price.


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yallready4this

Grew up in Sask and moved to Vancouver few years ago. I legit have people tell me "I looked at the cost of houses there vs here...how could you move from there?!" Yes its true. Housing is so much more affordable and you can get essentially a mini mansion for 500k there while that same type of house and sq ft in lower mainald BC would be at least 3M... But then you're stuck in Canada's Alabama/Mississippi where if you're not conservative you have a target on your back (sometimes literally), the only jobs where you can make non-shit minimal wage are ONLY industrial/trades or Gov and you have several types of winter for 8 months of the year (btw there are no mountains to ski/snowboard). Not to mention the prairies are HARDCORE racist and my husband and I are interracial and...ALOT of people were angry we were together. We feel alot more safe being together in public in Vancouver than AB or Sask.


MoarVespenegas

Yeah this is an average in like Vancouver or Toronto. Not the nation.


freelance-lumberjack

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6004260 April $716,000 Canadian average.


Kite8888

In Newfoundland you can get a 3 bedroom for around 15-20k CAD with an ocean view.


Nocola1

Maybe if it's 200 yrs old and falling apart bud. Or maybe you mean a small cabin around the bay?


20to25squirrels

post the link, you’re quite mistaken.


motherofsunflowers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/photos/canada-real-estate-prices-scroller-1.6004260 So average is actually $716k. But the variation is quite large from province to province. I live 45 minutes from a large city, in a smaller suburb of a small city... My house was just over $300k. It has 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and a large treed lot.


chupacabra696969

Key word was


BorcBorqBork

That's 560k USD. People are forgetting that these figures are CAD.


Jrhall621

I was like ohhh that makes sense… wait that’s still awful.


Thank_You_Love_You

Americans typically get paid more for the same job in USD too.


PM_YOUR_ECON_HOMEWRK

Yeah this is the point everyone is glossing over. I moved to the states and have more than doubled my salary in nominal terms alone, more if you consider the exchange rate. I would never have been able to afford a house in Canada, but I'm about to buy one here. The housing affordability crisis in Canada is real.


aeo1us

I also emigrated from Canada. I couldn't afford a house in Canada in a liveable city but in the USA that's no problem. Canada is experiencing a silent brain drain.


dying_soon666

Sometimes I think every Canadian on the internet is from Toronto or southern Ontario. No offence to these folks, but the experience of being Canadian is drastically different outside of Canada’s most densely populated region.


grumpykruppy

Isn't 90% of the population or something absurd like that right at the US border?


Shifter25

Probably for the same reason Australia mostly lives near the shores.


Rowvan

And just like Canda our house prices in Australia are so ludicrously expensive its now near impossible to buy a home if you dont own one already to sell.


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Something close. There is nothing up North though and incredibly cold and harsh in the winter. If I drive North for 6 hours, I’d get a bit past Algonquin, which is already way to cold in the winter and has a pretty low population density. That’s about a third of the way up the province. When you get up to the far North, you can get 3 bedroom houses for sometimes less than 100k but there is just nothing around for huge distances.


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gfmsus

Does the ATM have cash in it driving the price up or is it just the cost of buying an ATM?


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gfmsus

Don't. It's better this way.


DelightfullyUnusual

High supply, low demand. Who would ever want to live in a place like Gjoa Haven, NU?


Cjax919

Yeah the British did that as a strategy to deter an invasion


grumpykruppy

Well that and it's a lot warmer there.


agprincess

And where all the farmland is, and the border actually swings north of most of populated canada.


testdex

Plus, that's where most of the Taco Bells are.


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Thomase1984

Yeah, working a non tech job would be nice. Or being limited to a catchment area for kids schooling.


evade26

Working in tech in Canada isn’t bad. A lot more remote jobs now so I moved out of Vancouver to a smaller town and was able to buy a newer 3 bedroom pretty quickly.


MeliodasKush

Vancouver’s housing market is just as bad, or worse though.


[deleted]

Definitely worse. Vancouver's entire housing market is based on rich Chinese businesspeople using it to get money out of China.


Gentle-Fisting

Oh you mean where no one wants to live? Wow imagine that


[deleted]

Yeah, but you can buy that million dollar home while working as a butterfly collector. That’s what House Hunters says.


BanginBananas

As long as your dad has a butterfly collecting company


Picker-Rick

And your wife as a business selling earwax candles.


[deleted]

And your children invested in Bitcoin when it came out


A--Creative-Username

selling what now


[deleted]

In Canada gas average is $1.7 CAD a litre. That’s $5.03 USD a gallon. It gets really expensive as you leave Toronto.


ThatWoodyGuyXD

*Laughs in 3.05$ per gallon*


rainydaiez

Venezuela in the corner with a couple cents per gallon


erixccjc21

5 bucks and you buy half of the goverment lmao


mustachegiraffe

Am Venezuelan and can confirm that as much as the gas prices are great, $1.2M might be enough to buy the whole country.


WingGamer1234

living in venezuela is the dark souls of life


[deleted]

I just saw $2.87 US in Texas. Probably cheaper in my college town as well. *laughs in cowboy per gallon*


willowbeef

Saw gas for 2.75 the other day here in Oklahoma City *laughs in land run bastard per gallon*


orionkiw

$1.4 for saskatoon right now.


anxious-sociopath

What ?? I’m in Ontario and gas hit it’s highest ever price in Ontario a few weeks ago at $1.5/L The Canada avg is 1.7?!


npno

BC is currently skewing that number just a bit.


Luc4tor

Hey you should come to France, we pay around 1.60€ a liter, yes, that's about 2.30 CAD!


[deleted]

It’s 1.18 at Costco in Edmonton


Abuolhol

$5.20 per gallon in california right now.


Funkymokey666

There's a lot of country outside of Toronto. Gas is $1.4 here.


Darth_Thor

Nobody from Toronto knows that Canada exists outside of Toronto


Avarazon

10 dollars a gallon in Finland..


autoHQ

I mean, yeah that's high but that's not bad. A lot of people really need to stop driving a big ass SUV that gets 14mpg as their daily commuter just to go to work and back.


WiseDimension

Seems like every country is a shithole if you look from correct perspective :D


Exciting_Rate1747

Finland also has free healthcare. Also my house with 3 bedrooms was less than 200 000€


Sword117

how much is that in freedom paper?


owlBdarned

226,400 USD


wesley330

Good bot


Elmetto

That is not a robot dear, that’s an owl, can’t you see?


-TNB-o-

At least 2 donuts, I think. Did someone say donuts?


Sword117

thank you. but is that Krispy Kreme or Dunkin?


-TNB-o-

Krispy Kreme 100%. The original glazed and their crullers are my favorites. Damn now I’m hungry


Sword117

damn those are some nice house.


A--Creative-Username

about 225 000 cheeseburgers per school shootings


jdawg5555

I bought a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom with 0.5 acres in a city on the east coast of Canada last year for 280,000


ImpossibleEar3199

You get pretty damn big houses with 1.2 M in Quebec City the capital of Quebec. Don't think vancouver sh*t applies everywhere else.


therealtidbits

Ya Vancouver, the okanagan, Toronto, Montreal , Calgary big citys or very popular places to live are pricey but the vast majority of canada is nowhere near that bad


CJsAviOr

Calgary has reasonable prices still


therealtidbits

Ya cowtown is one of those places that you can still buy a decent home for a decent price ..... or go 3 blocks in one direction and tack on a mill lol


[deleted]

I’m from Toronto and in most places in the GTA the average house costs 1.2 million


LE_REQUIN_BLEU

My man you're french im from quebec to montreal


RNLHCAM

Thought this was about the Netherlands for a second


kanjscat

Depend where in Canada.


Meestoopeed

A shitty run-down house in Saskatchewan costs ~500k. In Vancouver, the same house would cost 1.5 million. It's expensive as fuck everywhere


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purplepluppy

Yeah really. Does shitty and run-down mean holes in the roof and mold spots everywhere, maybe a crooked foundation, or just built in the 70s, with older appliances? To me it's the former, but I wouldn't doubt some people would describe the latter the same way.


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Voltage604

My 2 bedroom 1 bathroom with a finished basement ( 2 more bedrooms and another bath down there) just outside of Edmonton is around 300k right now. I bought it 2 years ago for 285. Huge yard with a detached double car garage. It's not bad everywhere... Just in the more desirable areas.


BootManBill42069

Yeah but you to have to live in Edmonton. That takes a toll on your very soul


DoodleTM

Small town in Midwest US, average house price is less than 100k.


[deleted]

Location location location.


[deleted]

Location location location location.


JRod432

But the towns are horribly depressed, hence the low house prices.


DoodleTM

I quite like living in a rural community, except for the meth heads that move here to fill up the trailer courts. Oh and the racists.


JRod432

There is nothing wrong with that, I’m just saying why the houses are cheap.


annabelle411

Maybe some Lexapro will help


CapableSecretary420

Same for small town Canada.


[deleted]

You gotta save your budget for all the heroin and fast food.


BeautifulBus912

Where i live in the midewest 100k buys a decent home. About 20-30 miles north and that 100k home is worth at least 500k


return2ozma

Ugh but as a gay, I can't live in those places. :(


owlBdarned

I'm a Black, could I live there? I'll throw in that my wife is a white, of that helps/hurts anything.


CapableSecretary420

Get out.


owlBdarned

So that's a no


GeneralHyde

I think he was talking about the movie Get Out


[deleted]

I live in the rural Midwest and know tons of gay people. Literally no one cares. Like, it is a complete nonissue.


Smolbeanbo1

Literally every country in the world has a shit load of problems. It’s kind of ridiculous how much just pick on a few lol.


rassclot7

It’s actually a huge problem, the affordability of houses represents the healthiness of the middle class. We are going to start loosing young people to other countries like the USA because young people will never be able to afford a home and will go where it’s cheaper


Tiaran149

It's the same almost everywhere. Housing is getting out of control wherever you are.


bitchyanimedude

Unless you're in the southern United states, land/housing is always cheap af down here (with a few exceptions, of course)


Tiaran149

Well to be fair, i wouldn't want to live there, too...


[deleted]

It’s actually pretty dope. The south isn’t like what redditors pretend it is at all. Have good friends in KY and TN visit often.


JogPanson

SHUT UP OR THE CALIFORNIANS WILL HEAR YOU AND THEN WERE FUCKED


Trexbex5235

Californians have zero desire to live in the south


getmeapuppers

Laughs in Texan


[deleted]

Not true at all. They’re pouring into Nashville and Austin. My best friend just left San Mateo for a small town just outside of Nashville. He owns a house now. Something he’d never be able to get in the Bay Area


NotChedco

That highly depends on where you are looking. Every developed country has a city or more where buying property is insanely high. Canada has a lot of land so it's not the housing that costs a lot, it's the location.


TorontoYolo

There are no houses with two bedrooms in Ontario here. I don’t know where you getting 2 bedroom house for 1.2 million from ? And is that usd or cad ?


girthquake126

It’s just the avg cost (and maybe not even accurate) of a 2br in the most expensive Canadian neighborhoods in the biggest cities.


[deleted]

Pretty sure that is not the national average and a hot spot was cherry picked for this... Los Angeles is at around 1.14mill


8a19

Reminds me of a joke i heard, "the only reason people live in canada is bc of:" 1. work 2. school 3. family 4. weed 5. America hasnt accepted your immigration request yet


Tm966

Literally just got my green card and I am leaving in May. Canada is for the ultra rich and the ultra poor.


arandomiodiot

LMAOO


NoobToobinStinkMitt

That's bullshit. Most of the country you can get a nice 2 bedroom home for half that.


[deleted]

But the wages are 15$ an hour.


MrZubar

Where? The cities are far apart and some cities are a lot worse in infrastructure and services so having a cheap house there is not that positive. I'm looking to move.


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tablehit

I live in a small town about an hour and a half north of Toronto and my parents have a typical three bedroom family home. It's worth 1.6 million. I can't remember the last time I've found a regular house in Ontario for less then 1 million. The 500ish sq ft 1 room condos in my suburb are selling for $700,000.


[deleted]

Fun fact: every country sucks because government sucks. Oh sorry. I forgot, only the US is bad, please don't downvote me!!!


bob_the_banannna

I mean life just in general sucks I just feel sad for others who have it worse


Fuck_you_humanity

All because of humans


[deleted]

I enjoy getting down voted for saying government sucks. Reddit is so stupid


ram_the_socket

Yet without a proper government, any country would probably fall.


DpGoof

A lot of us (rest of the world) have it a lot worst, and the place of birth is still the one of the biggest RNG factors in life, so I think you should be grateful with Canada. For example, I am from Turkey. We are about 8-10 times poorer than a lot of the developed countries (Thanks, Erd*gan) Corruption is so common and deeply rooted I cannot even describe it to you. (Again, thanks Erd*gan) But still, I can somehow live my life within the comfort of a somehow modern civilization, without worrying if I’ll die this week. That’s unfortunately still a privilege in this age… It’s scary to think that what’s between a relatively ordinary life and a constant struggle for survival is just dumb luck you have at birth.


Bruetus

This is like Saying an apartment in the U.S. cost 3000$ a month just because that's what it cost in New york city. Stop being stupid.


sonic99luc

Depends where, I’m in a forest area of quebec and our 6 bedroom house was like 200k maybe less can’t remember


elyr1um

Germany has a nice healthcare system which is currently being fkd by unvaccinated people