10-12-2018, 08:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2018, 08:39 PM by danbrotherston.)
(10-12-2018, 06:27 PM)creative Wrote: For that price you could buy my fully renovated, open concept, 2500 sq. ft., 4 bedroom home with walkout basement, backing onto conservation forest, creek, 10 min. Bike ride to grand river and 10 minute bike ride to downtown Kitchener. Attached garage plus 2 additional parking spots. Oh, and deer in our backyard.
Maybe...in a suburban housing track, with an enormous yard to maintain, no walkable amenities, plus add in the cost of owning two cars (and buying one for any children you might have)...
Yeah, I'll personally take the condo downtown (although I paid ~250 for a similar older but fully renovated unit).
The point is that we shouldn't judge people on their housing choices. If they can sell condos like that at 600k there's clearly a huge demand for housing fitting that lifestyle. Not everyone wants to live in a suburban housing development. Some do, and they have plenty of choices where to live. Some do not, and they have far far less choice of where to live.
Worse, many would want to live in mid density neighbourhoods, out of large towers, but still in walkable areas with a moderate density of housing, and the have near zero options for that lifestyle in KW.