Subj : Re: New to this
To   : boraxman
From : StormTrooper
Date : Mon Apr 21 2025 12:22 am

 bo> I couldn't imagine house prices so low! I do remember as a kid they were
 bo> about $120+ for a decent home.  But as prices starts to rise rapidly,
 bo> the base of what was "expensive" moved up and up.  Notice how everyone
 bo> always things the housing affordability crisis started last year?  It's
 bo> like the standard of affordability gets reset all the time.

This was truly the "Renovators Delight" and worst house in the street.  Sold it out ~5 years later and the prices had already more than doubled. Probably close to 215%... but so long as someone can buy it... I guess in some sense they're still affordable. But even by then I'd be struggling to buy from scratch.

 bo> I'd be skeptical of OS Quals as well.

Depends on the Quals.. What I find odd though, is it was probably easier for them to get here with the Education levels that they had.  Most of them also had well off families backing them from their country of origin.  They almost universally had no interest in bringing the Quals up to local standard, or getting them certified because it was too expensive.  

ST

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