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In Zurich city it is not impossible to buy property, it is just very hard. Everything surrounding Zurich is affordable also for software engineers. I was lookin
by s3nnyy 10y ago
In Zurich city it is not impossible to buy property, it is just very hard. Everything surrounding Zurich is affordable also for software engineers. I was looking into buying a three room apartment in Effretikon (20 min from Zurich by train) for 370k. I work here for 2 years and could afford the downpayment (20% of the buying price).
- chinathrow 10y agoParent was posting about buying a house with land. Your example is for a (small) condo - way cheaper than what he was talking about. Edit: Parent was posting about buying a house in Switzerland - and that is really expensive in the surroundings of Zurich. Buying a condo is cheaper in any case - I just made a statement that you can't compare oranges to apples.
- kuschku 10y agoBuying a house with land in a city is a very american thing – which is why the focus on a small condo is a lot more realistic. Imagine a city with everyone living in a small house with land, it’d be impossible to live in, as the distances would be far too large.
- lrem 10y agoHave you seen Dublin? ;)
- etatoby 10y agoI think even in the US nobody really buys a house (with land) in the city, but in the suburbs. Big difference and much more similar to the 1 hour drive discussed above.
- tptacek 10y agoMost of Chicago, the third-largest city in the US, is single-family houses with yards. For that matter, when I lived in San Francisco back in 99-2001, I had a yard.
- ams6110 10y agoThe standard Chicago city lot is only about 25' wide though. The houses are very close together, with a tiny front yard and a slightly large back yard but only a narrow strip on either side.
- tptacek 10y agoThat's a big part of what makes them not suburban. I like the narrow lots. Why would I need more than the typical Chicago lot?
- godzillabrennus 10y agoHe only thing I don't like is that I feel like I live in a bowling alley because all the homes are long and narrow.
- wglb 10y agoAntenna towers.
- willu 10y agoLess lawn care. :-) That said, there are large pockets on the northwest side that have lot sizes comparable with some near suburbs.
- dmix 10y agoToronto was/is like this too. It's a pretty big city similar to Chicago. All of the houses are >$1 million now in Toronto proper. Now the only thing being built are hundreds of cookie cutter condos right in the downtown core. So many were built in recent years that the price of condos actually went down for the first time in forever while house prices continued to rise.
- tptacek 10y agoYou can get a decent house in a nice neighborhood on the north side of Chicago for around 200k.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoLos Angeles used to be approximately like that. We're still emerging from that kind of pattern and distribution. I think, taken as a whole, the greater LA area is still sort of like that. Some people think it is impossible to live in.
- sologoub 10y agoI'm pretty sure LA is still a sprawl and density has increased very little. Even in Santa Monica, and the rest of beach areas, there are plenty of single family homes. Not sure if they make up the majority of residential land, but sure feels that way.
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