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"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
08/05/2018 at 19:20 • Filed to: None

I was house hunting today, but with the market as is, I can’t afford anything. My budget is $550K (very low for Vancouver), but that doesn’t get me anything. Super depressing. So, I went for walk on a mountain.

Most of the $ I’d have is from the appreciation of our current home. But since the value of that has doubled, so has everything else. It’s insane.

DISCUSSION (27)

Dusty Ventures > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 19:28

Live in the fire truck

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Dusty Ventures
08/05/2018 at 19:29

The ambulance might be more spacious

Dusty Ventures > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 19:33

Not once you remodel the interior

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 19:38

That price converted to USD would get you a half acre lot, four car garage, 3500 square feet, 4 bedroom 3.5 bath, 3 fire places, fully remodeled with workout room, office, 1000 square foot deck, etc in my neck of the woods .

(550k CAD is about $425k USD which is what ours is appraised at currently)

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 19:39

HAH! If only we could afford that! Oh boy, if you think that’s bad, guess what? We can BARELY afford $100k on a house, that’s how broke we are even after my dad got approved for disability . I owe it all to my piece of shit grandma who fucked us over multiple times and again. So this is super depressing for you? My situation is extra maddeningly insanity inducingly depressing and suicidal. Now if you’ll excuse me, time to take my self pity party to something that cares and has seen it all before: a noose. Only for me to be too lazy to do anything and just fall down and fall asleep, good thing I’m the laziest person on Earth. I know before I’ve said I’m only depressed, not suicidal, ha fuck that. It’s only getting/gotten worse in the past couple months. I’m really spiraling down the toilet and in to the sewer with the Ninja turtles. And you see where the show quality of that went. Ninja turtles is dead. Soon I will be.

Edit: holy shit I apologize. This escalated quickly. You did NOT need to know this. I can barely think straight anymore.

BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
08/05/2018 at 19:59

It is really sad that you are hurting in this way.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 20:04

We had a similar depressing reality check last year. We had been saving with a plan to spent no more than CAD$650k, but ended up spending CAD$800k, which was a big stretch for us (as you might imagine) because nothing in livable condition could be bought for less than that anywhere near where we work (still 35 min away and it needed work, but was livable until we could get it all done (still not done)). It’s currently “worth” somewhere around CAD$875k-890k. Completely ridiculous.

My wife and I have discussed that we couldn’t afford to buy the house we live in anymore, which is insane.

I know your market is even hotter than ours, so I couldn’t imagine how bad it is there. I suspect where I live is roughly equivalent to where you live, based on Vancouver being the centre of commerce in your metro and Seattle being the center of commerce in my metro. Not sure how it compares in commute time on a weekday, though.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre
08/05/2018 at 20:12

There’s me who feels like this, then there’s my dad who’s felt a lot worse than this since the past 22 years. It’s my mom’s mom. And on top of that my dad has a bunch of diseases and cancer and all this other shit and basically it’s 1000x worse than me. And the fact that I see what she does to him and everything just builds up and sits there and makes me feel certain ways.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
08/05/2018 at 20:23

I know that this kind of thing means you’re not actually suicidal, but please keep in mind that if you ever let it get the best of you it’ll hurt others a lot.

S uicide is a permanent solution to what is almost always a temporary problem. I know things feel insurmountable, but don’t let it eat at you, life can always get better.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 20:23

Wish I could help you! :(

Lots of decent homes out here for $300K, but that doesn’t help you! I’m still living at home and saving up all my money for a house of my own....I don’t need big or fancy, just something in decent shape with at least 2 beds and a bath and a garage!

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/05/2018 at 20:47

Well I mean, I’ve been living a lie until I moved to Florida, because the lie has gone away and the ugly truth reared it’s head at me. For as long as my grandma is alive my life will never be ok. I can never stop thinking about how much better my life would be if it weren’t for her. And my whole family’s (mostly my parents, mental and physical) condition is because of her and her twisted ways. If my dad were to die soon it would most certainly be because of her (I watched as she gave him a stroke by mentally fucking with him and exercising her financial power over him/us) and if that were to happen I’d lose my mind entirely, kill her and my aunt and the people I know have made our lives worse and then myself. That’s the complete worse case scenario. I really don’t want it to go that far at all. But she keeps pushing it every single fucking day it’s driving us insane. I want her to rot in hell or at least go to jail or something. Karma seems to be on her side unfortunately. There's something seriously wrong with me for saying this and I'm aware of it but that's just the way it is.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 20:47

Move to Kalispell MT, work from home. We have numerous flights each day to Seattle, salt lake and Denver.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
08/05/2018 at 21:03

I'd kill to live where you are. I loved Mahone Bay. So affordable.

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 21:34

I can find you some homes on acreage, with 100 grand+ leftover.

You don't mind a 4 hour commute each way, do you?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > LOREM IPSUM
08/05/2018 at 21:39

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/19714165/H24-HUCKLEBERRY-TRAIL-Hope-British-Columbia-V0X1L5

Maybe I should just sell the two cars, drive the truck full time and mold my persona to fit that.

Kinja'd!!!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/05/2018 at 21:41

CAD$800k. Ouch. I mean, that’s only $300 USD right?

But it has really gotten out of control. I wish I could even afford a place with a garage, but that starts at $600+ in my area (townhome)

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 21:45

Hve you considered moving to Saskatchewan?

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 21:45

Know anywhere that offers banjo lessons, by chance ?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB
08/05/2018 at 21:59

Sask would be tough for me. I have to be in a major city professionally . I’ve really considered Halifax (even flying there to look at homes).

I am from the prairies and think it would be cool, and I would be able to live there and find work (albeit not as lucrative as here) but mostly it would be a really hard sell for my wife

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 22:12

I wish... It isn’t parity, but it’s too close for comfort. We make a lot more than an average household in our county, so you’d think we could afford something slightly better than average, but our house is nothing special, just a mediocre spec home in a tight-packed development in a close-in exurb (in my opinion, considering I’m over an hour commute from the center of the metro area).

The housing price situation needs to be fixed or our incomes need to go way up to make the current cost of living reasonable. Between housing, education, and medical, our generation is in bad shape financially . I feel like we’re worse off than my parents were when I was a small child , leaving me really worried about the cost of raising our child (possibly the only one, d epending on how expensive this ends up being).

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 22:16

Not zoned for full time living, but seems like a workable plan. Sometimes I wish I was Canadian since you have so much land available that is great and relatively cheap. I’d love to live in some funky little remote town and work remotely. Even way out west on the Olympic Peninsula isn’t really affordable.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
08/05/2018 at 22:19

I have never been able to land a WFH situation that was decent. If I could, I’d be pushing hard to do something like this. I hate living in major cities and that area is beautiful.

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2018 at 23:11

Fai r enough. I’m (u n)fortunate enough that work is everywhere for me, so my employer can send me to a town of 340 and I still get paid well. My girlfriend is a prairie girl, and I don't mind it here, so we're both good with it.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/06/2018 at 00:35

It’s tough, we’re in a small townhome with a carport, about a 45 min drive in and 1.5 hours out with traffic. I totally agree we are worse off than our parents.

I’m super thankful that we don’t have to worry about medical issues from a cost perspective. Though, that does make our taxes higher.

I would not raise a kid in the home we are in. And I really worry about being able to provide for any family I may have.

pip bip - choose Corrour > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/06/2018 at 06:18

for that money, you could buy nicely here.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/06/2018 at 11:19

I was going to say come move to Lethbridge. $300k CAD could get you something pretty decent. The economy isn't bad here either.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > BaconSandwich is tasty.
08/06/2018 at 13:09

Lethbridge would be cool. A return to my roots for sure, my mom was born there. I still don’t think it would be big enough for what I do