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Originally Posted by sphelps
How can anyone afford a mortgage in this bloody city? My wife and I are both engineers and we can't even afford anything close to what we want/need. We would have been better off not going to school and buying a house 7 years ago like many of our friends. Life is ridiculous!
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Fixer-uper seems to be the answer. When we bought our house in 2008 it was half the price of the houses on either sides because it still sported some 1970s and 1950s decor. In 2009 it went up 50K in value, and in 2010 it went down 70.5k.
Your other options seems to be buying in the boonies and making a commute if you work downtown.
My random thought; UGH ate too much at lunch and now I'm too sleepy to concentrate fully.