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

[Barrister]

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.

A half mil will get you a real house with a pretty reasonable commute in just about any city you care to mention.

[Monoriu]

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.

A half mil will get you a real house with a pretty reasonable commute in just about any city you care to mention.

If it's Hong Kong, your sentence can be fixed with just one letter - bil instead of mil

[Barrister]

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.

A half mil will get you a real house with a pretty reasonable commute in just about any city you care to mention.

If it's Hong Kong, your sentence can be fixed with just one letter - bil instead of mil

Okay, excepting NYC, London, Hong Kong, and probably Tokyo.

[Brazen]

Okay, excepting NYC, London, Hong Kong, and probably Tokyo.

I was just about to say actually £500,000 will get you a nice, decent-sized house with an easy commute in London, then realised you were talking dollars

[Grey Fox]

You're thinking £350,000 is expensive?

Dude, that would buy a giant size home in any Montreal suburb.

[ulmont]

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.

Really.  10 years in, and now it's just kind of an albatross.

[MadImmortalMan]

My parents have owed me over $30k since I was 19. I will never see the money, and there's zero chance they will ever help me financially with anything. In fact, I've had to pay their rent twice in the last two years to keep them from being evicted. 

Speaking of albatross.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Hockey.

[Caliga]

My parents have owed me over $30k since I was 19.

[Iormlund]

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.

A half mil will get you a real house with a pretty reasonable commute in just about any city you care to mention.

What does reasonable mean?

[DGuller]

In Manhattan, a 30-minute commute would put you 5 blocks away.

[crazy canuck]

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.

A half mil will get you a real house with a pretty reasonable commute in just about any city you care to mention.

I care to mention Vancouver.  No chance.  Unless you have a very different idea of what a reasonable commute is.

[crazy canuck]

You're thinking £350,000 is expensive?

Dude, that would buy a giant size home in any Montreal suburb.

Have you seen the exchange rate lately.

[Eddie Teach]

In Manhattan, a 30-minute commute would put you 5 blocks away.

The elevators broken or something?

[Grey Fox]

You're thinking £350,000 is expensive?

Dude, that would buy a giant size home in any Montreal suburb.

Have you seen the exchange rate lately.

Doesn't matter. Montreal isn't that expensive.