40%
we were looking at properties to upgrade our house as our family is growing, and pricing in vancouver/burnaby for houses is still pretty ridiculous. i see the same homes on the market for months. i can see it's harder to sell a $800k house for $1.1 million ... i walk in to the open house i can almost see the realtors' faces looking like
we'll be holding on upgrading and see how things play out for a bit. not too worried about increase/decrease in prices since when we sell the gap to upgrade the bigger house IMO will still be the same. i figure if pricing for the bigger house drops, pricing for my smaller house drops too and vice versa.
i agree with some of meowjin's assessment to an extent, but you make what you can of your situation. for me i choose not to hang out with dbag's or people with drama and hang out with real people and live my life, and don't worry about all the other negative stuff you might see. every city will have stuff like that.