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I was hoping to see how affordable it is to buy in different cities around the world. Unfortunately, this data covers 50 cities in just one country. It should
by mryall 16y ago
I was hoping to see how affordable it is to buy in different cities around the world. Unfortunately, this data covers 50 cities in just one country.
It should really be the "Top 50 Cities in the US". The US-centric nature of websites like this is even more irritating when they don't state it up front.
- keiferski 16y agoTrulia's Q1 2011 Rent vs. Buy Index provides guidance to help you make a smart decision on whether it is better to rent or buy in each of America's 50 largest cities by population.
- mryall 16y agoI meant on this site. People coming to it from a different direction might have more context or be less geographically distributed.
- natrius 16y agoThis same page for the largest 50 cities in the world would be useless. Unless you're very rich or European, it's very likely that the only comparisons that matter are domestic.
- mryall 16y agoThe top cities for buy/rent ratios are not necessarily the largest. And I know quite a few people who own properties in other countries who are neither rich nor European. One was an English IT contractor living in Australia who bought a small property in Auckland. Your "domestic" is not the same as everyone else's.
- natrius 16y agoI realize that emigrants of modest means exist. My point is that they're few in number. I also realize that "domestic" depends on one's frame of reference. It is irrelevant to my point. International comparisons of rent-vs.-buy ratios are mostly useless unless you're very mobile or investing in international real estate.
- krschultz 16y agoIt's the buy/rent ratios of the top 50 largest cities, not the 50 cities with the best buy/rent ratio. As for it not having US in the title. It is a .com. Technically that means it is in the US. If it was "Rent vs Buy, Top Cities" on Trulia.co.uk, I would not have clicked through becuase I would have known they were not talking about the US. I don't see why every single time someone posts something they need to qualify it as "IN THE US!" when its on a .com already.
- somabc 16y ago.com is a generic TLD though (originally commercial now open to anyone) not anything to do with a Geographic Area. The intention was for .US to be the USA's TLD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
- kmfrk 16y agoI thought the same, too. This would also require you to factor in exchange rates, but I guess that's not much of a problem when done as a snapshot view.