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Originally Posted by Ch28
I doubt much will happen.
They'll just suck it up as part of owning a home and live with the fact that they'll be blowing a lot of their time on commuting to work. They'll have to approach it with a half glass full perspective and know at least they own a detached home. There's no way they'll be able to afford the same size home closer to work and I feel it'll be one of those situations where it's hard to downsize after having a taste of the larger size/freedom of a detached home.
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I think this is bang on. You/they/I (lol) will end up rationalizing it as a necessary sacrifice to own a detached home. I'm sure they didn't arrive at the conclusion to buy a detached home in the burbs/boonies totally by accident. I doubt they are mid 20s, selling their DT condo, and moving to maple ridge for instance (ridiculous example, I know). If anything, I would expect them to be move-up buyers to their 2nd/3rd home, older (30-40s), "settled down", possibly with kids or planning to have kids, etc.