4 ms·

I did not know software engineers could get this rich. It seems outlandish. That house must have cost a fortune. Or am I just way under-paid compared to the res

I did not know software engineers could get this rich. It seems outlandish. That house must have cost a fortune. Or am I just way under-paid compared to the rest of you? Also, who checked off on the flat roofs in that location?

brailsafe 5y ago
Would be nice if they were a little more transparent about these numbers instead of being incredibly vague. Salaries in Vancouver have not kept up with housing costs.
- lazide 5y ago
  You’d probably just get really angry - likely well north of $1m in raw construction costs.
  - brailsafe 5y ago
    I can see why it would make some ppl angry, but I know how much the house is worth, and it's not much different in the city, but in terms of what it takes to get it done in $$ I haven't a clue, so it's something to be curious about. If anything, it would be a consolation if the development costs were not that far removed from the current value, meaning the person has a lot of money (obviously) but didn't necessarily make out with crazy short term profits. With that information, you can kind start to think through whether or not it'd be feasible to do it at a smaller scale given some of the fixed costs in preparing the land and so on.
    - bradlys 5y ago
      As soon as they started talking about paying cash + HELOC against their duplex in the city - I knew this guy had a fuck load of money. This isn’t your average dude - it’s someone who got rich off of tech. If you’re not in that ballpark - not likely worth thinking about tbh. Watch builder videos on YouTube if you want to get an idea of how much this costs.
- Tiktaalik 5y ago
  Your typical senior coder in Vancouverite can't afford a decades old teardown trash house let alone this. haha. This is less due to poor Vancouver salaries and more due to a basket of real estate issues, but yea the salaries aren't that great either.
  - brailsafe 5y ago
    Well, I think it's probably both. In the same geographic region you see very high homes prices but wildly different salaries for the same companies across the border. I don't know enough about why that is, but there's surely a disparity

brailsafe 5y ago

Would be nice if they were a little more transparent about these numbers instead of being incredibly vague. Salaries in Vancouver have not kept up with housing costs.

lazide 5y ago
You’d probably just get really angry - likely well north of $1m in raw construction costs.
- brailsafe 5y ago
  I can see why it would make some ppl angry, but I know how much the house is worth, and it's not much different in the city, but in terms of what it takes to get it done in $$ I haven't a clue, so it's something to be curious about. If anything, it would be a consolation if the development costs were not that far removed from the current value, meaning the person has a lot of money (obviously) but didn't necessarily make out with crazy short term profits. With that information, you can kind start to think through whether or not it'd be feasible to do it at a smaller scale given some of the fixed costs in preparing the land and so on.
  - bradlys 5y ago
    As soon as they started talking about paying cash + HELOC against their duplex in the city - I knew this guy had a fuck load of money. This isn’t your average dude - it’s someone who got rich off of tech. If you’re not in that ballpark - not likely worth thinking about tbh. Watch builder videos on YouTube if you want to get an idea of how much this costs.
Tiktaalik 5y ago
Your typical senior coder in Vancouverite can't afford a decades old teardown trash house let alone this. haha. This is less due to poor Vancouver salaries and more due to a basket of real estate issues, but yea the salaries aren't that great either.
- brailsafe 5y ago
  Well, I think it's probably both. In the same geographic region you see very high homes prices but wildly different salaries for the same companies across the border. I don't know enough about why that is, but there's surely a disparity