Having recently moved to Vancouver (ahem, yesterday), while looking for a place I can call home, the ridiculous cost of living of this city hit me while I was being naively optimistic about what I could afford.
Which got me thinking about the exclusivity of postal codes (ok, so it doesn't work as well as zip code, but you know what I am getting at). A glimpse of water, a mountain view will all cost you. Which seems fair - more desirable means more valuable. But is it?
How do we monetarily value views that should be available to everyone? The hardwood, the high ceilings, the fancy gym - that you can slap a value on. But isn't it a bit sad that you can buy a view or accessibility or fresh air? (Ok, so I am being dramatic about the fresh air)
Isn't it a bit absurd? Shouldn't we all have these things?
I completely agree with your expressions of frustration. I think what frustrates me even more is that while competition raises prices for nice views, I think that competition is often propped up by less-than-deal motivating factors.
ReplyDeleteI can totally picture a world where the population is small enough that everybody has an awesome view, and because that's the pleb-thing-to-do, the cool thing to do becomes living in underground bunkers.
I am early morning ranting.
Maybe we should start a PR campaign promoting underground bunker living (hence forth known as UBL) as the trendiest thing since black and then settle into our oceanfront properties once the UBL-ers flock to the new developments we built. Double win.
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