• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Hey, we heard you can’t afford a house, so we’re charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house…we’re so cool! We solved homelessness! Because now if you want to be homeless, it actually costs more to NOT buy a house. So you may as well just buy a house!

      We did it guys! We ended the concept of homelessness! High five!

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        18 days ago

        we’re charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house

        Oh how I wish I could buy a house for that kind of money. You should go look at what housing costs in Canadian cities.

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          17 days ago

          The prices are ludicrous and the salaries are a lot less than our US counter part.

          It’s funny because during the Covid, at the start of the latest housing bubble, we saw so many people saying “it’s easy, just move to a place where it’s affordable just like I did”. People have done that, and now even in bumfuck nowhere it’s expensive and people are now complaining that their bumfuck nowhere has become too expensive for them.

          Shit’s fucked yo.

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          18 days ago

          If you can produce $110k in fines you can probably also pull off a downpayment and at least a few years of payments. If you can’t buy a house that’s still several years of renting.

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            17 days ago

            It’s in Fredericton. It’s so tiny, I don’t know if I can even call that place a city.

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            16 days ago

            Fairly common for older houses.

            I’ll be selling mine “as is where is” in a few months. Nothing wrong with it, just don’t want the liability. Buyers will have an inspection and then make a decision on whether or not to buy it from that report.

            Bought for $80k, put a ton of work into it, and will be selling for ~$250k, stair stepping into what we really want. (Also, USA, not Canada)