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Where have you been Niya?
I was so lost.
Yea a modest house here is $500,000 and yet just about anywhere else its a mansion :( The cost of living is one of the highest in the nation and #1 worst traffic too! Cant even shift into 2nd gear if I get on the freeways lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
My dad lives in a $500,000 home and it's a 3615 square foot home with a garage apartment in downtown against the lake, so it's pretty big and in a nice neighborhood. How much would $500,000 get in him Southern California?Quote:
Yea a modest house here is $500,000
Depending on the area, $500,000 would get you a small one family home, maybe 3 bedrooms if you are lucky.
I have been saving up to buy a house but I am still a year out until I can even start looking. If I were in another state I would have over 20% down for a huge house.... Traffic isnt too bad in OC. LA is a lot worse. I hate having to drive out there. There is traffic no matter what time of day.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
I was curious what that would buy you in the UK. $500,000 is roughly £320,000 in proper money.
I'm buying a house right now for £335,000 It's a 4 bed (one of which is an attic conversion) terrace in a fairly good part of Bristol. Not in the city centre but only about 5 minutes out by bus.
Compare that to this:-
and I can't help feeling you American's have got it pretty good.Quote:
a 3615 square foot home with a garage apartment in downtown against the lake, so it's pretty big and in a nice neighborhood.
Depending on where you live, that's pretty spot on. To be fair, we generally don't build houses out of brick, as wood is plentiful (and a hurricane, earthquake or tornado can rip a brick house apart, too); a house can be thrown up in almost no time at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Actually, a few years ago, I was up North in the UK where my brother had bought a brand new house - the development looked like a scorched earth wasteland. In the US, a lot of places go out of their way to make sure as few trees as possible are cut down.
Talk about de-forestation.
It always amazes me at how many eco systems we have destroyed.
Look at this paltry list of old growth forests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...#United_States
Check the UK - check some states in the US.
I don't know if you have similar in the US but over here we have "Greenfield" and "Brownfield" land. It's basically illegal to build on Greenfield (although some very rare exceptions are made). Brownfield's pretty much a free for all. So our conservation efforts are largely around protecteing the Greenfield rather than individual trees in a Brownfield area.Quote:
In the US, a lot of places go out of their way to make sure as few trees as possible are cut down.
Note that Greenfield isn't a few isolated areas like your national parks. I don't know the percentages but I'd estimate that Greenfield makes up 50% or more of our land.
All that said, I'm a bit of a lefty hippy type and I do think our developers could be more sympathetic to the enviroment when developing Brownfield sites.
edit>I share an office with an ex planning officer who estinates Greenfield is rougly 80% of the UK. I guess my point is that, while developers might be pretty ruthless to nature where they're developing, they're pretty much never developing in areas where there's any nature left to ruin. Pretty much all our development is back filling existing urban conurbations.
The vast majority of the UK is still rolling hills, corn fields and rosy cheeked children with bad teeth. Lawks, Guvnor.