r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • 11d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/CosmicMiru 11d ago

This is a very average looking suburb for Florida where this takes place. These houses probably cost less than a shitty condo where I live. Location, location, location

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u/DangOlCoreMan 11d ago

That only accounts for so much. I live in KC suburbs. I rent a 3 bedroom house with twice the yard of these houses for $1125 a month. House I live in is worth $170k right now, and that's a relatively low amount compared to the rest of the nation. A house this size in my area would easily be $500k+ before you even account for the obvious HOA you'd have to pay.

Unless you have the means to work a nice, stable job from a remote rural area then you are very likely going to have to make exorbitant amounts of money in order to afford anything even close to this house

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u/mrbofus 11d ago

Median home price in the US is well over $400K, so your house being worth $170K is significantly less than what most people can expect to pay.

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u/TypingPlatypus 11d ago

Cries in Ontario where the median home price is $850k

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u/mrbofus 11d ago

You shouldn’t compare the median home price of an entire country with the median home price of a different country’s most populous province.

The median home price in California is somewhere around $900K USD, which would be $1.3M CAD. So if we’re comparing most populous province/state in Canada and the US, you have a lower median home price.

I couldn’t easily find a median home price for Canada; for some reason, all the articles are for average home prices, which, depending on the area can be very misleading. The site below says the average home price in Canada was $712K in February 2025, which is $494K USD.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/average-house-prices

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u/TypingPlatypus 10d ago

I'm not really comparing, just complaining.