Interestingly enough, its actually HARDER to rent things in Vancouver, than to buy... and there is a lot on the market right now, but there just isn't enough thats actually of any good quality.
Its amazing how crappy, ugly and poor quality some of the buildings are, and to think someone actually designed and built these pieces of absolute shit, especially when you look at how amazingly crappy the layouts are sometimes.
Argh, but there are some absolutely stunning units, with mountain views, and even lofts... but most of them are over $250,000... which puts them out of our price range.
This is a most aggravating process.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Back to looking...
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Duhh dude, come to Dubai and you won't find a decent 2 bed apartment for less than a million dollars!!
But expats can't buy in Dubai, right ?
Unless they changed the laws since we moved away, it used to be that you could only buy if you were a local, and expats could only rent...
Yea, real estate is rediculously expensive, especially when you look at how people in North America used to buy big houses in the 1970s for only like $40,000 !!!
Expats can buy property now.
Now I only need a couple million, and I'm all set :)
Ummm... what's a "loft"?
Oh and don't get me started on the "houses" in North America. Stuff made of cardboard and plywood aren't houses. Every time I watch coverage of yet another "devastating" hurricane in America, I wonder at people who continue building those doll houses. Dig some decent foundation, pour some concrete in it, build some brick walls, and enjoy the view of a hurricane through your second floor window. Honestly..
Oh, I know, you'd think they'd learn after all the issues they had with leaky condos here, but no.
Most buildings built with wood and stucco are good, but there are also many that feel and look, and basically are cardboard. Wood construction can be done well, just it isn't always...
'Lofts' started as conversions of old industrial warehouses, so they used the high ceilings as second floors that were open to the bottom, usually they have like 17 foot ceilings, and the second floor is only an open-air bedroom. Very funky and chic right now... so they now build them, not just convert old buildings to them...
Great... that means that the warehouse at the back of our office building is actually a loft, since we managed to squeeze an additional open air office space floor there... LOL
Exactly, except its LIVING space, not an office, I don't like officially counts as a 'loft'.
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