It's your decision but... everybody volunteers his opinion on it in your country

[DGuller]

So I am considering buying a new flat, and apparently everybody is an expert and happy to discuss for hours prices, locations and whatnot.

What are similar topics in your country?

People like to give advice about flat purchases because they want to justify their own flat purchases.

This is a very profound statement, IMO.

[Josquius]

You're thinking £350,000 is expensive?
That sounds pretty damn cheap for a flat in a major city centre. Especially making the silly money you do...$130,000 a year....wow....lend me a tenner will you?

[Zanza]

Not sure where you got the $400k figure from.

I think the number came up in some thread where you told us that some Polish tax scheme allows you to give a certain percentage of your income to a gay charity. You told us how much you gave there and based on that and the percentage your income would have been 400k.

Anyway, I think a nice flat is worth a lot of money. After all it's a place where you spent considerable time. So you should get it.

[Eddie Teach]

major city centre.

Does Warsaw really qualify?

[Barrister]

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for so small a place, no matter how nice.

[Josquius]

major city centre.

Does Warsaw really qualify?

2 million people or something like that.
Its not London but its pretty major.

[Brazen]

2 million people or something like that.
Its not London but its pretty major.

The cost of living isn't significantly below the UK and house prices seem commensurate with the London suburbs in Warsaw centre.

[Martinus]

Not sure where you got the $400k figure from.

I think the number came up in some thread where you told us that some Polish tax scheme allows you to give a certain percentage of your income to a gay charity. You told us how much you gave there and based on that and the percentage your income would have been 400k.

Anyway, I think a nice flat is worth a lot of money. After all it's a place where you spent considerable time. So you should get it.

400k is closer to what I get in zlotys, so that could be the figure you saw.

[crazy canuck]

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for so small a place, no matter how nice.

Not by Vancouver standards.  One of my associates just bought a two bedroom apartment for 780,000. 

[Martinus]

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for so small a place, no matter how nice.

2 bedroom and a large living room is not so small.

[Barrister]

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for so small a place, no matter how nice.

Not by Vancouver standards.  One of my associates just bought a two bedroom apartment for 780,000.

I'm not saying that places don't sell for that much.  I'm just saying I wouldn't spend that much to get so little.  Go outside the city core and buy a real house.

[ulmont]

People like to give advice about flat purchases because they want to justify their own flat purchases.

Meh, in retrospect I really never should have bought a house.

[crazy canuck]

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for so small a place, no matter how nice.

Not by Vancouver standards.  One of my associates just bought a two bedroom apartment for 780,000.

I'm not saying that places don't sell for that much.  I'm just saying I wouldn't spend that much to get so little.  Go outside the city core and buy a real house.

Yes but most people live in cities.  There is no point in going outside a city to buy a "real house" if that also means your commute is so long you dont spend any time there other then to sleep.

[Barrister]

People like to give advice about flat purchases because they want to justify their own flat purchases.

Meh, in retrospect I really never should have bought a house.

Really?  Buying my first house was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[Martinus]

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for so small a place, no matter how nice.

Not by Vancouver standards.  One of my associates just bought a two bedroom apartment for 780,000.

I'm not saying that places don't sell for that much.  I'm just saying I wouldn't spend that much to get so little.  Go outside the city core and buy a real house.

I stand to inherit (I'm the only child) my parents' HUGE house about 30 kilometres from Warsaw, with a huge garden (about 2000 square metres plot) . If I wanted a house outside a city core, I'd have it. I don't - I don't intend to have wife or children, so I don't need a big place. .

I want a fucking loft in the fucking city centre, close to gay clubs, restaurants and the cultural scene of the city. I want a place where I could throw after-parties and bring my current boyfriend/fuckbuddy to.