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We're renting near work now (UBC) but there really isn't much around here that is in our target price range that isn't a 1 bedroom or 2 very small bedroom apartment style place. We could buy here, but we're trading the lack of commute for a house with a yard and space to grow.
In a way the dogs are driving our decision. Not that I can guarantee that we would have opted to buy a small condo at UBC without them, but the wife and I want our weekends spent at home watching our dogs play in the yard and having friends over. 1.25 hours a day in the car is a pretty steep price to pay, time wise, but other than the proximity to work, we don't really like living here. Nothing wrong with this area, and if I were younger and still in school this area would be awesome, but we're not spring chickens anymore and living amongst wealthy undergrads is becoming tiresome with respect to the late night noise and having to take an elevator to take the dogs out, navigating the puddles of puke from the previous evenings debauchery. Plus, rent around here is high so our future mortgage is shockingly only going to be $260 more than what we pay now in rent for 4X the square footage.
No offense to the likely high number of undergrads on RS. Not criticizing undergrad life at all...I did it too...it's just that I'm old now and not cool anymore (or perhaps never that cool to begin with LOL).
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