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What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide

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Re: What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide

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Post by dpbriggs »

LegitShady wrote: post #642
dpbriggs wrote: post #564

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While that income sounds like a lot it doesn't stretch to buying a home every 3-5 years. Are you taking about getting a mortgage? I make more than that but it's unrealistic I'll be owning a fully paid off house in 3-5 years. I could get a mortgage and purchase a house in that timeframe. After taxes, high COL, sky-high rent, and retirement savings there's maybe a deposit in there.

the average household income in canada is ~$75k. $200k is a lot more "then maybe there's a deposit there". That's paying off a mortgage in record time if thats the priority money. Everyone in canada who is struggling is paying taxes, col, rent, and retirement savings, or they don't even get retirement savings. You're out to lunch and out of touch.

Ah yes, the economic trick of buying the "average" house thousands of kilometers away from where I live. The average house where I live starts at four hundred thousand. Much more if you want detached.

Thanks the advice. I'll start purchasing property impractically far from my work. Good idea

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amrocha wrote: post #668
dangwhy wrote: post #667

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when you or your family member die in a waiting list. https://secondstreet.org/2022/12/13/waiting-list-deaths-surg... All your philosophy and shallow responses like "not true" will go out the window in a second . You will understand what quality means when your family cannot have that life saving drug that's been available in USA for years or has to die early from cancer because they couldn't get radiation in time. O…

Stop strawmanning. I already acknowledged Canada's system needs to be better. Waitlists can be solved. A system that is fundamentally discriminatory can't. I'm glad you got the care you needed, but in order for you to get that care several others were discriminated against and denied care. That's a failure of the system. No matter how good the care you got was, the system failed.

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amrocha wrote: post #668
dangwhy wrote: post #667

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when you or your family member die in a waiting list. https://secondstreet.org/2022/12/13/waiting-list-deaths-surg... All your philosophy and shallow responses like "not true" will go out the window in a second . You will understand what quality means when your family cannot have that life saving drug that's been available in USA for years or has to die early from cancer because they couldn't get radiation in time. O…

Stop strawmanning. I already acknowledged Canada's system needs to be better. Waitlists can be solved. A system that is fundamentally discriminatory can't. I'm glad you got the care you needed, but in order for you to get that care several others were discriminated against and denied care. That's a failure of the system. No matter how good the care you got was, the system failed.

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Post by dangwhy »

amrocha wrote: post #668
dangwhy wrote: post #667

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when you or your family member die in a waiting list. https://secondstreet.org/2022/12/13/waiting-list-deaths-surg... All your philosophy and shallow responses like "not true" will go out the window in a second . You will understand what quality means when your family cannot have that life saving drug that's been available in USA for years or has to die early from cancer because they couldn't get radiation in time. O…

Stop strawmanning. I already acknowledged Canada's system needs to be better. Waitlists can be solved. A system that is fundamentally discriminatory can't. I'm glad you got the care you needed, but in order for you to get that care several others were discriminated against and denied care. That's a failure of the system. No matter how good the care you got was, the system failed.

i mentioned characteristics of each system that are superior to other. A perfect system would be the best of both. I have family in UK that travels to india to get lutetium 177 ( a prostate cancer drug) privately because it has not been approved in NHS. A FDA approved drug that's been SOC for PC in USA for past 3+ years( even to medicare, not just saudi princes like someone else suggested). USA subsidies rest of the world by paying for drug research and getting first dibs in return.

You are responding with childish troll responses like "not true" "can be solved" and feel no need to justify with any logic or stats. I regret engaging with you in good faith (shouldve checked your post history).

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Post by LeanderK »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #345
watrami wrote: post #103

It seems like it's the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening. We have the same problem here in Germany. I am currently living in Munich to finish my CS Master's at TUM and build a startup, and it is absolutely impossible to find anything remotely affordable. I am supported by two startup scholarships and make enough to get by, but no landlord even…

> And it's not just Munich. Every city in Germany has this problem. That's nonsense. Larger Munich is the most expensive place to live in Germany (except for the island of Sylt), and has been for many years, but is still nowhere near London, NYC, or SF. In contrast, you can purchase entire houses in abandoned (but well connected) places in east Germany for as little as 10k EUR.

I bet the other places he looked at was London, Paris, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Of course in a cool part of the city. The reality is just that many would like to live in munich but it's just very expensive because of this. Many can't pay this. His girlfriend makes a lot with 75k, so they should be able to find something but you have to be realistic in this city but you have to adjust your expectations.

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Post by listenallyall »

mthoms wrote: post #679
listenallyall wrote: post #640

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If you only think power = force, you don't understand how real power is wielded. You're absolutely correct, WEF will not jail you if you do something its members don't like. If you assume that means it doesn't have any power other than enforcing name tag rules, you're naive.

Can you give an example where they have wielded this power? That is, can you give a single, solitary example where the WEF has implemented something that goes against the wishes of the electorate somewhere? Anything?

I don't think you'll find a single person, including hardcore climate deniers, (let alone an entire "electorate") that would endorse 1000+ private jets all heading to the same event. Why not hold the conference over Zoom?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...

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Post by swah »

jonp888 wrote: post #643
ricardobayes wrote: post #422

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Why is the area around Dresden so affordable compared to others? I've seen ready to move in single family houses for 70k.

The openly racist, climate change denying, far right Alternative for Deutschland party won almost all districts in the last federal elections. It was the launching pad of the anti- Islam PEGIDA movement, and had the lowest covid vaccination levels and consequently the districts with the highest number of cases. The economy isn't great either. Geographically it's kind of a dead end, and transport links are fairly poor…

The worse parts of Germany might be better than most of the 3rd world so...
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