Houses prices

Samer wrote:

 "Today I went on a tour of parts of Bergen County NJ looking at houses with my cousin and her finance.  Wow, I'm NEVER going to be able to afford a house.  Holy Jesus!  I used to be pretty damn good at assessing how much houses cost, it seems I've lost that skill.  These houses were several hundred thousand dollars more than I thought.  They were showing me houses that look like absolute holes and telling me that they are selling for $500,000+.  I thought they were lying but sure enough they were right.  On my salary, that's maybe, I don't know, 100 yrs from now before I'll have saved enough for one of those.  I apologize to all you home owners for saying this but, God do I want the housing market to crash." 

Hey guys you should come in Ireland. This is pure madness here ! Soon we're going to have 120 years mortgages ;-)

I don't know if you know this one, but Japaneses seem to have mortgages that they pass to their childrens. Great gift, debts !

If you need to rent something, well just 1 bedroom (closer to a toilet space), in Dublin about 1000 $ !
To buy (something decent) expect nothing serious under 250000$ for a tiny one bedroom townhouse. At this price eventually you can have a back yard if you are very lucky.

Samer I am agree with you, but here I need 300 years of salary ;-)

Thanks god, we have some good pubs !