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Originally Posted by Ludepower
Live where you work. Commute time is priceless.
Theres no need to be shitting on anyone neighborhood. Gastown, Hastings, Chinatown, Main Street etc. Atleast these properties are somewhat affordable and have lots of upside.
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100% agreed with your first point, however to address the second.
We aren't "shitting on neighbourhoods." We are having a reasonable discussion about what makes/doesn't make a neighbourhood livable. The communities being discussed have a REAL problem that should not be swept under the rug.
I've been looking quite intently for places as of late, and there just isn't anything thats jumping at me. Prices for the 350-450k homes seem to have stayed consistent or even dropped slightly over the last year and a bit from my experience, however there has been a massive drop in places for sale in this range over the past couple of months. Its going to take something special for me to throw down the premium to own over rent, but that being said I still want to at some point moderately soon. I also really want to blow this down payment on something way more fun.
There were 1 or 2 places I probably would have jumped on in the summer, however the funds were tied up at the time.