• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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    20% down payment is ridiculous these days. For the median home of 370k that’s 74k you need to have lying around.

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      Double that for Canada

      $2,172,613 ($1,586,224.75 USD) if you want a detached in the Vancouver area

      Condos bring the average down as they only cost $816,356 ($596,021.52 USD) which is pretty affordable as far as housing is concerned around the city

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        Detached homes shouldn’t even exist in Vancouver metrocore anymore so, it makes sense to be a fortune

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            Yeah, I know. It goes from “impossible luxury” to “barely affordable” as you go from downtown towards the edges of the metro region. Just saying that it’s not surprising for Vancouver that those prices are so jacked up.

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            It may surprise those who don’t live here that 80% of Vancouver proper looks like a sleepy suburb of detached single family homes. It is mostly detached homes here. Even a townhouse can take a decade to build due to NIMBYs.

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      It’s not an enormous hurdle for folk that already own a home, but it creates a huge barrier to entry. You can get in for less but then you get to waste obscene amounts of money on PMI. Literally just throwing money into someone else’s pocket for no return.

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      You need more than 180k to buy a home in LA too. Maybe if you are married and both make over 140k then you can actually afford an 800k condo.

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    Glad I got my house two years ago. I was hesitant at the time because houses were going so fast you barely had time to think about it, get second opinions, or really anything.

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      My wife and I bought our house two years ago too. The market around here has gone utterly bonkers since. If we had tried to save up a while longer like we were originally planning to we would never have gotten there.

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    And that’s just to pay the mortgage, never mind things like food or saving to retire or even the 20% down payment the graphic assumes that you’ve made.

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    As a European, at first I thought this showed house prices, and not yearly salary required to buy a house and thought: “well, that’s not too bad …”, but oof!

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    There must be something wrong with the math that they used here, because I’m familiar with a few of these markets and have a higher salary than what is listed and definetely couldn’t buy a house in those markets without it being more expensive than would be responsible - both in terms of down payment and monthly cost

    For example, I think you’d need a lot more than 180k to buy a house in LA

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      It’s possible they’re including buyable apartments as well as single family houses but 180k still sounds WAY too low for LA

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        Yeah that could be it, or maybe they’re doing the math as literally “is your monthly take home less than the cost of the monthly payments”. In which case I could see 180 qualifying, but that isn’t how any sane person would define affordability lol

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        Same with San Jose. 1.6m will get you a 1bd apartment. A 3-4 bd house will run you at least 2.5m

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    Seattle is less affordable than it seems. Unlike California and many other states, WA has neither a property tax increase limit nor a homestead exemption. As a result, property taxes in WA, already some of the highest in the country, arbitrarily track market prices and don’t get any kind of tax break. My property taxes cost more than my 30yr fixed mortgage now. If the price trends continue, I won’t be able to afford my house within a decade, just because on paper someone might theoretically be willing to pay some ridiculous amount to buy it from me.