Our real estate market is nuts
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@mik said in Our real estate market is nuts:
I meant half your taxes in Riverside.
Oh, OK. Yeah, there's no question our taxes are high, but that's because we have no retail base in our town. The bulk of our tax revenue (non residential) comes from a couple of gas stations.
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@Klaus that increase is crazy! Maybe a result of urban flight? Hey...maybe move to Minnesoooooota!
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I'm talking about property price, not price per square meter of living space. Living space here would be in the ballpark range of 5000 Euro per square meter.
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
I'm talking about property price, not price per square meter of living space. Living space here would be in the ballpark range of 5000 Euro per square meter.
This is why we don't have metric houses.
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For another international comparison, for a modern "Western" style condo in Bangkok, good location, near subway or BTS (elevated subway), with pool, etc. probably about $300-400USD per square foot (assuming I did all the conversions correctly LOL). This would be for a one bedroom, maybe 400 or so square foot.
Of course if you want a very "local" place in the outskirt of the city, price would probably be half that.
For example, you could get a 300 square foot condo for maybe less than USD $50K.
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I guess I should move to Thailand.
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
But I certainly intend to visit some time.
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I guess I should move to Thailand.
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
But I certainly intend to visit some time.
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I guess I should move to Thailand.
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
But I certainly intend to visit some time.
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
I guess I should move to Thailand.
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble.
What, to evade German taxes and vote illegally in Thai elections?
(See how I inject two American Conservative obsessions into this thing?
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I guess I should move to Thailand.
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
But I certainly intend to visit some time.
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
Yes, I have seen some of them (not only Germans, but other Westerners). Some of them are quite sad. They move to Thailand because they can live cheaper, but after a while, they are frustrated with Thailand, but do not have enough money to return to Germany (or another country), and spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
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@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
Yes, I have seen some of them (not only Germans, but other Westerners). Some of them are quite sad. They move to Thailand because they can live cheaper, but after a while, they are frustrated with Thailand, but do not have enough money to return to Germany (or another country), and spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
@taiwan_girl said in Our real estate market is nuts:
spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
No need to go to Thailand for that. You can do it right here.
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@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
Yes, I have seen some of them (not only Germans, but other Westerners). Some of them are quite sad. They move to Thailand because they can live cheaper, but after a while, they are frustrated with Thailand, but do not have enough money to return to Germany (or another country), and spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
@taiwan_girl said in Our real estate market is nuts:
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
Yes, I have seen some of them (not only Germans, but other Westerners). Some of them are quite sad. They move to Thailand because they can live cheaper, but after a while, they are frustrated with Thailand, but do not have enough money to return to Germany (or another country), and spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
The main reason that is usually quoted here is that they move there to have cheap sex and/or "buy" a wife.
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@taiwan_girl said in Our real estate market is nuts:
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
Yes, I have seen some of them (not only Germans, but other Westerners). Some of them are quite sad. They move to Thailand because they can live cheaper, but after a while, they are frustrated with Thailand, but do not have enough money to return to Germany (or another country), and spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
The main reason that is usually quoted here is that they move there to have cheap sex and/or "buy" a wife.
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
@taiwan_girl said in Our real estate market is nuts:
@klaus said in Our real estate market is nuts:
Actually, many Germans do. But most of them for reasons that are not exactly noble. I don't want to be confused with one of those...
Yes, I have seen some of them (not only Germans, but other Westerners). Some of them are quite sad. They move to Thailand because they can live cheaper, but after a while, they are frustrated with Thailand, but do not have enough money to return to Germany (or another country), and spend their time drinking beer and complaining about how bad life is for them.
The main reason that is usually quoted here is that they move there to have cheap sex and/or "buy" a wife.
I think some do that, and some because they can live cheaply, and some for a combination of both.
Like anytime there is a move to a new country, there are the stages where at first everything is great. But then, reality comes up.
Then they find that living on Euro1500/month (for example) is really not that good. But, they have cut off "ties" back to their home country and, in a way, become trapped in the foreign country. They cannot afford to move back, they hate where they are, so it is a bad cycle.
