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I'm an optimist (well pragmatist mostly lol) - but I do believe if there ain't shitty days, you can't appreciate the good ones.
Im in my early 30's and will be buying my first home in October. Ill tell you one thing, you need to have a very good job or both need decent jobs to afford anything in this province (Ontario). Where I currently live which is about 30 mins north of Toronto, the house we need/want are about $750,000. So we are moving a little further north and can get the same house for $450,000. We are very excited and have worked and saved long and hard for this day.
I cannot wait to stop paying someone elses mortgage and pay for my own.
Im in my early 30's and will be buying my first home in October. Ill tell you one thing, you need to have a very good job or both need decent jobs to afford anything in this province (Ontario). Where I currently live which is about 30 mins north of Toronto, the house we need/want are about $750,000. So we are moving a little further north and can get the same house for $450,000. We are very excited and have worked and saved long and hard for this day.
I cannot wait to stop paying someone elses mortgage and pay for my own.
I'm an optimist (well pragmatist mostly lol) - but I do believe if there ain't shitty days, you can't appreciate the good ones.
So are you moving here to Barrie?
Or maybe Kitchener?
Got some friends and very distant relatives there
Ahhh. I go there a few times a year. We have family there. Lots of family actually
LOL...
Kitchener has a large population of Transylvanian Saxons, mainly 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation after many WWII POW's decided to settle in Canada after their release. I was born in Transylvania, hence the VERY distant relatives. My great grandfather (mother side) settled there and I visited them twice in 2001 and 2002 when i found out that they exist. Was doing my family tree when i stumbled across them
They even have their own 'Oktoberfest' and club in Kitchener to keep their traditions alive:You do not have permission to view link Log in or register now.
Wow reading all the posts here is really hectic for me looking at what the property costs are from the various country's you guys live in,
I'm 34 been renting since my early twenty got divorced 3 years ago and decided to move back to my folks in an outside a apartment / cottage which I'm loving
Here in SA the Rand is terribly weak and volatile a year ago it was R10 to 1$ now it's R16 to 1$ few years before that it was R6 to 1$
The crime here is hectic so you forced to live in a secure Estates with electric fencing and armed response so it's stressful but looking at property prices overseas with the same money here you would have a mansion with pool at least 4 rooms garden and staff quarters
I'm a Greek south African 3rd generation and luckily could leave this crime ridden corrupt country but from the looks of it I would be living in a shack with those prices abroad
Wow reading all the posts here is really hectic for me looking at what the property costs are from the various country's you guys live in,
I'm 34 been renting since my early twenty got divorced 3 years ago and decided to move back to my folks in an outside a apartment / cottage which I'm loving
Here in SA the Rand is terribly weak and volatile a year ago it was R10 to 1$ now it's R16 to 1$ few years before that it was R6 to 1$
The crime here is hectic so you forced to live in a secure Estates with electric fencing and armed response so it's stressful but looking at property prices overseas with the same money here you would have a mansion with pool at least 4 rooms garden and staff quarters
I'm a Greek south African 3rd generation and luckily could leave this crime ridden corrupt country but from the looks of it I would be living in a shack with those prices abroad
This is true for many Brits who live in the south of the country, especially London which has become detached from reality with regard to property prices. If you sold your SA mansion with staff quarters to move to London, the estate agent would struggle to contain their laughter when you tell them what your budget is, and might suggest you look at towns with good rail links to London instead. Prices are high in much of the South East BECAUSE people live in these "commuter towns" and take the train into work in London. This demand surrounding London pushes prices up, and further up the closer the town is to London. Brits tend to be a conservative lot, and there are a few specific places like Spain and France that attract us, even though we could do better by looking further afield, especially in parts of Eastern Europe where property prices have not been driven up far since the collapse of communism. In some places they have even fallen since shortly after communism.
I used to live there in the east, Natal north of Durban. Crime wasn't as bad as in Gauteng or Transkei but yes the security van was still used by most residents and usually dogs. I thought maybe Namibia would be a good place to go to, bit more peaceful?
You could live very well if you had a £ or $ income.
You may be interested to know that 40% of our traffic at Casinomeister is 25-34 years old. And I would guess that most of these youngins don't own houses outright - yet.
18-24 year old peeps represent 15% of the traffic. I wouldn't expect them to own houses unless they inherited them.
Oldtimers like me - 55-64 - is 6% of our traffic. Yep, I own my home.
Now this is our traffic which includes all visitors. It's hard to say what the actual forum membership is age-wise.
I am renting, never owned a home as I am single with a single income. The houses in Australia are way too expensive even renting.
I lived in my place for over ten years now with my son and daughter. Daughter moved out now to follow her career.
I am pretty lucky as I will never have to move from here and I love the area
Living costs are expensive especially electricity, food, petrol etc
I would've loved to own my own home but would not be happy to pay the mortgage for the rest of my life, land rates and water on top of that. My sister owns her own home being single herself paying the mortgage etc she finds it hard to get the funds to do repairs on her home which is slowly falling apart
Still have no idea what I am going to do.
Was looking a bit and fooling around with mortgage calculators but not looking good.
Unless I can find a woman which having no luck with that either.
You need to try harder mate
There are some beautiful Canadian female members here, just cross your fingers that they're single...or naughty
Single and naughty works.