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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:11:59 JST cool_boy_mew
   >Search for houses
   >About min. 350 000$ for a house
   >Priced at that they're mostly shit that needs severe renovation and has been built literally a hundred year ago
   >Or you gotta live in an area with no fucking services and jackshit
   >450 000$ is already too expensive with the mortgage going into the 2500$ a month without counting the rest of the shit
   >I can afford 250 000 to 350 000$ condos, but is it even a good idea?
   >Apartments are going into the 1000$/m
   
   Fuck this shit
   • Pendragon (pendragon@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:28:19 JST Pendragon

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     @coolboymew yep.. that's like anywhere near the big cities on the east coast in the US .. or worse .. it's depressing :blobsad:
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   • purple write-protect tab (purple@nya.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:28:33 JST purple write-protect tab

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     @shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev @coolboymew@shitposter.club partner and i were browsing yesterday... $217 kilobucks at auction, and there aren't any interior pics because the property was foreclosed 💢
     
     we're oh so very fucked

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   • 受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:28:34 JST 受不了包

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     @coolboymew@shitposter.club yepppp

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:30:18 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:
     @chjara I basically never go out, doesn't spend like a madman, etc. and it's just out of reach for me. I'd have to buy with a spouse or something for the 450k and 550k ones and that's not fucking happening
   • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: (chjara@snowdin.town)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:30:19 JST chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:

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     @coolboymew if only these dang millenials stopped eating avocado toast they could afford it 🙄🙄🙄
   • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: (chjara@snowdin.town)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:31:49 JST chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:

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     @coolboymew yeah i'm joking the housing market is completely ridiculous thanks to people treating housing (you know, a basic necessity) as a financial investment™
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:34:17 JST Moon

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     • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:
     @chjara @coolboymew tons of chinese money trying to escape the reach of the ccp
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   • Big Richard (big_richard@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 00:36:30 JST Big Richard

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     @coolboymew
     
     For my next trick I will try buying a new car in the current year!
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   • Tactical (tactical@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 01:15:08 JST Tactical

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     I know a lot of middle class millenials and basically out of maybe like, 15 of them, only two actually own homes. It's basically offlimits
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 01:15:37 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Tactical
     @Tactical I had friends talking about it this summer, they had to fucking bid on the houses and they bought some at 550-600k
   • Tactical (tactical@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 01:21:05 JST Tactical

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     Honestly there's way too many houses on the market that are absolute dogshit and way fucking overpriced. My favorite are the ones where you can clearly tell someone flipped it and all they bothered to do was a DIY job on the floors with some cheap shit from Home Depot
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:15:32 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Leaf Lord
     @Leaflord it's not about not having fucking starbucks, it's about not having to travel 30-45mins on car to do anything, at all. There is pretty much no major malls closeby, no nothing. Nobody wants to come here due to the long ass trek they have to do every time, and there's nothing under 400 000, this is ridiculous
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:15:33 JST Leaf Lord

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     >no services
     If you have a vehicle you can live further out.
     Not having a Starbucks within walking distance is outweighed by not being surrounded by a sea of genetic caca.
     Plus if you buy a cheaper fixer-upper you can flip it at a substantial profit and not ever need a mortgage again.
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:19:50 JST Leaf Lord

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     >he has friends who need to make the trek
     ngmi
     
     Memes aside though, i have about an hour's drive to the nearest big city. It's glorious. The last time I saw a non-white in my neck of the woods was a bunch of MENA goth baddies that somehow ended up here. Plus I stand behind it being a good investment for you if you are able to DIY some renos
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:20:05 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Leaf Lord
     @Leaflord I dunno, the point of me moving is that I won't have to deal with that shit anymore
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:22:55 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Leaf Lord
     @Leaflord there is absolutely nowhere I'd like to live
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:22:56 JST Leaf Lord

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     Ask yourself this - is your new place one you want to live in forever and commit to fully? If the answer is no then you can treat it as an investment and use it to climb out of being in a position where your living arrangements depend on a bank's desire to give you a loan.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:27:47 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @Leaflord @Tadano it's either living extremely far from everything and getting stuck with 1h30mins+ of transport whenever you have to haul your ass to the office, nobody wants to come to your house
     
     Or shitty middle of the city
     
     Ideally, tranquill streets not far from the city/services
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:27:48 JST Leaf Lord

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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     Living in hell is a decision.
   • Tadano ❄️🎅 (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:27:49 JST Tadano ❄️🎅

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     • Leaf Lord
     @coolboymew @Leaflord The Quebec Experience™ :LIVE:
   • MasterSimper (mastersimper@troll.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:31:43 JST MasterSimper

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     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @coolboymew @Leaflord @Tadano I once lived in a spot that I had to drive 45 mins to do anthing besides groceries, I took up drinking and now people tell me I have a drinking problem and the lawyers advise me to stop drinking and continue treatment.
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   • Tadano ❄️🎅 (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:33:20 JST Tadano ❄️🎅

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     • Leaf Lord
     @Leaflord @coolboymew True. Despite all its flaws QC is one of the few places on the planet where you could just disappear from greater society and be perfectly fine, what with the bountiful arable land and fresh water sources. If you're in a position to go full /innawoods/ you could be living extremely well.
     
     Unfortunately outside of that you're dealing with a horrendously dysfunctional province that repeatedly squanders anything good it has going for itself. God help us all.
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   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:45:24 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @coolboymew I'm gonna wait until Mitsu has an income before buying. Current market still needs to cool down a bit too. I'm not thinking things are going to turn around quickly, but the simple maths of it is that I have a very decent middle-class salary and I'm not insisting on living in a highly desired urban environment and there are plenty of houses and of space for houses to be built in Quebec. At some point we'll figure how to unfuck this.
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   • BroDrillard (bro-drillard@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:54:54 JST BroDrillard

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     • Leaf Lord
     @Leaflord @coolboymew >is your new place one you want to live in forever and commit to fully?
     
     I see this as one of the big problems. The job market expects people to move around.
     
     Yet if you buy and then eventually sell a home ridiculous real estate agent commissions take a good chunk of the equity you've built over the years. Inflation (incl house prices) made 3-6% commissions absolutely ridiculous. It's ~25k on a 500k house. Considering how much of your mortgage payment goes to interest, and how little to principal that 25k takes most of what you paid on the principal. A few thousands (<= 1%) would be plenty considering how little work an agent usually does to sell a home.
     
     I don't understand why companies like Zillow and Redfin didn't make a big push to reduce such transaction costs. They'd make an absolute killing.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:54:54 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Leaf Lord
     • BroDrillard
     @Bro-Drillard @Leaflord Those fuckers are probably making 70k to 500k a year average for about a week or two of work
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:00:19 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     • MasterSimper
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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @MasterSimper @Tadano @Leaflord @coolboymew I have a French friend who had moved to Montreal years ago, who ended up having issues living in Montreal and then visited PEI during summer and fell in love with it. He decided to move there at the end of autumn. My friends and I warned him, Eastern Quebec and the Maritimes provinces are beautiful during touristic seasons, but living there and especially through winter is a different thing entirely.
     
     He lasted less than two months iirc. It was making his drinking problem worse. The people who manage in those places have roots there or are exceptionally good at rooting themselves. Most people just end up going Jack Torrance when they attempt to transplant themselves there.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:01:55 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @guizzy @MasterSimper @Leaflord @Tadano I'm very fine by myself, it's the significant public transport to do absolutely anything that pisses me off
     
     I'm looking for places around Anjou and co
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:02:34 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Leaf Lord
     • BroDrillard
     @coolboymew @Leaflord @Bro-Drillard it's not so bad in the USA as long as you're not a troon brainwashed into living in Seattle and Portland
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:14:11 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @guizzy @MasterSimper @Leaflord @Tadano Like something like this, even tho' I'd have to take the bus to get fucking groceries
     
     https://www.centris.ca/fr/condo~a-vendre~montreal-verdun-ile-des-soeurs/27006407
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:25:02 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @guizzy @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano yeah I'm aware, I probably won't consider the ones that are massive like this. Who the fuck needs this "family room" bullshit?
     
     But something like that
     
     The thing is, stuff that's 250k - 300k, I would be able to slap a massive downpayment to be able to lower the monthly price to the low 1000, basically fuck the shitty apartments
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:25:03 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @coolboymew @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano Looks decent tbh. Be careful about this though:
     > immeuble impeccable offrant plusieurs services (gym, squash, piscine, sauna, salle familiale et terrasse sur le toit)
     
     These services in condos are "free" the way our healthcare is "free". You might have high condo fees to deal with on top of your taxes and of your mortgage.
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:28:12 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @coolboymew @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano I'm right next to Anjou now, in Louis-Riel, and it's definitely a bit harder to manage without a car than my previous apartment in Hochelaga, but I do have a giga-mall at 5 minutes walk which is nice. The neighborhood has good and bad spots.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:28:12 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @guizzy @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano Yeah I saw some condos around anjou that were all rather close to all the malls AND the subway station (possible to reach while walking, or the extremely frequent bus, too)
     
     The point would have to have a metro station closeby, then you have access to everything easily
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:29:41 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
     • Leaf Lord
     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @guizzy @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano Saw similarish places around the Montmorency station in Laval
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:31:05 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano @guizzy The problem with the Momo station is that this direction to go to work and to return from work is heavily unpleasant in the metro
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:33:40 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     • MasterSimper
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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @coolboymew @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano Metro station nearby is a tough ask. I had to settle for a short bus ride to the metro and a 1100$ lease, and even then I think what I got is pretty good.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:33:40 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • MasterSimper
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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • guizzy (in exile)
     @guizzy @Leaflord @MasterSimper @Tadano I managed to find some for around 250-350k
   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:15 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     • Leaf Lord
     • BroDrillard
     @Leaflord @Bro-Drillard @coolboymew Have you met a normie, let alone a sub-normie?
     
     That level of competence is rare.
   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:16 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     • Leaf Lord
     • BroDrillard
     @Bro-Drillard @Leaflord @coolboymew MLS is the secret sauce, that and being far more experienced in this sort of transaction than a layman. Big transactions accumulate middlemen not just because that's where the money is but also because inexperienced laymen bring emotion and inexperience to the table.
     
     A skilled businessman who can keep a cool head might not need that but Mr. Millennial with no idea how this stuff works? In over his head.
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:16 JST Leaf Lord

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     • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies
     • BroDrillard
     We are of course going on the assumption that the seller isn't a retard and has the presence of mind to use google.
   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:17 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     • Leaf Lord
     • BroDrillard
     @Leaflord @Bro-Drillard @coolboymew You can FSBO, sure, but the value prop of an agent is that you'll actually be listed and connected to a buyer.
   • BroDrillard (bro-drillard@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:17 JST BroDrillard

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     • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies
     • Leaf Lord
     @RupertvonRipp @Leaflord @coolboymew Yes, you can do FSBO. But do agents have any actual secret sauce besides their MLS and whatever other database they use? Why can't a public eBay like listing and bidding site exist?
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:18 JST Leaf Lord

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     • BroDrillard
     They don't want you to know this, but you don't actually need real estate agents to buy and sell houses.
   • Leaf Lord (leaflord@leafposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 06:12:52 JST Leaf Lord

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     • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies
     • BroDrillard
     Yeah. Which is why those parasites are able to make a living. However anyone who can rotate the apple is able to cut out the middleman and make a hefty profit
   • anemone (animeirl@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 00:29:27 JST anemone

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     im paying 2500 a month for an apartment lmao
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 00:29:27 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • anemone
     @animeirl jesus. California?
   • mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 00:29:51 JST mangeurdenuage

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     @coolboymew
     >Fuck this shit
     Same bullshit here. Even this house which was relatively well made I'm currently in is overpriced, 200K for 80square meters, no basement, there's a garage but it's badly designed (can put a car in it, water infiltration), insulation is 10~12 years old and part of it is dead or to be finished. Heating is also a fuck.
     I'm not complaining I'm living in something a thousand times better than in a yurt, I'm just saying this shouldn't cost 200k.
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   • anemone (animeirl@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 04:16:30 JST anemone

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     Oregon, it’s a 3 bedroom though so it’s pretty large
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   • Kerosene :ancapshades: (kerosene@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 23:08:17 JST Kerosene :ancapshades:

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     @coolboymew Man, reading this thread reminds me how much I love not being an american/canadian. Over here everywhere you could ever live you will never be more than a 5 minute walk away from the nearest grocery store. The only places where will be away from such conveniences are the countryside, and even then a 15 minute walk to go buy something from your neighbors isn't uncommon.
     Car dependency fucked you guys over big time.
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   • Berlusconi Anime Fever :sonnenrad: (mechasilvio@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 01:59:37 JST Berlusconi Anime Fever :sonnenrad:

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     @coolboymew Thanks, Jews
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