[Grey Wolf]

I have a grandmother who lives south of Boston. Nice little Cape house (Cape being the style, not the location). People have bought houses nearby for around $300000, I think.

[MatthewPapa]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Bloody hell.

  I want to work over there, then.  My cousin moved to Houston (obviously a different cost of living, but still); he sold his tiny wee 2 bedroom house in Airdrie and bought a monster house in Texas with a huge backyard and losts of bedrooms, with money spare.  It's kerayzee.... a £100k ($150-180k) would barely buy you a 2 floor flat in Glasgow.

Yea, in houston all you need to get a hugeass house (3 stories, 4 beds 5 bath) and backyard is about 200k - 300k. The schools in the area are some of houstons best and newest. There hundreds of new suburbs being built on the outskirts that provide a unique opertunity for cheap housing. I would live out there if it werent for my close ties to friends around here (i live in the inner older suburbs.) Still, I have a nice house at that.

[Flipside]

I'm almost scared to mention house prices in London.
And the infuriating part is that it is NOT because of lack of houses, it is real-estate Merchants deliberately not putting houses on the market to push the prices of their other ones up.

Let me put it this way, 200K will just about get you a Bedsit in the Suburbs.

[Kazan]

4yr degree? oh wretched - i haven't finished mine yet

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Flipside
Let me put it this way, 200K will just about get you a Bedsit in the Suburbs.

Is this in pounds? The insanity...

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Kamikaze


Is this in pounds? The insanity.

[color=66ff00]Yes indeed.

If you're brave you can get cheaper houses over here; there is a direct inverse correlation between the cost of the house and its proximity to 'flashpoint areas' i.e. those where sectarian violence is most likely to occur.
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[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Flipside
I'm almost scared to mention house prices in London.
And the infuriating part is that it is NOT because of lack of houses, it is real-estate Merchants deliberately not putting houses on the market to push the prices of their other ones up.

Let me put it this way, 200K will just about get you a Bedsit in the Suburbs.

Aye, well Londons in a class of it's own really.  Closest I know of is Edinburgh; someone famously sold a garage (that is, a single car garage with a door) in the city centre for about 50k; single car lockups are something like 25-32k in my 5 second search............