Townhomes are massive scams. I’ve seen them available to rent out for up to $2700/month and I’ve seen them for sale on Zillow for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Why the FUCK would you want to live in a small slice of a building right next to strangers? Because you get 2 tiny ass floors? Glorified pod living.1200 sq ft at most. Imagine taking out a mortgage on one of these for the privilege of living next to a bunch of annoying people. You get no privacy if you want to just relax outside of your place, you can’t play music or watch TV too loud at certain times or someone will call the cops for DTP bullshit.
FUCK apartments. And especially townhomes.
The only way to live is in a house on a back road in the sticks with very few neighbors that aren’t right next to you, or no neighbors at all. Fuck living anywhere near people I don’t know.
okay
I'm not reading all that
what the fuck are you on about right now man. Not my problem
ok boomer, not everybody has money to buy for cheap place like you did. now take your sleeping meds.
I wouldn't mind townhomes if they were constructed soundly and were in walkable areas, but they're OSB walls so you can hear your neighbor fuck and in a suburbian neighborhood that is a 10 minute drive to a grocery store.
I live in a townhome thats actually built with CEMENT instead of fucking shitty ass plywood
Some assholes here in florida have the balls to call these plywood shitholes "luxury" apartments and charge 2900 a month. Fuck these assholes to hell and back.
people who lived in apartments and had noisey neighbors above them will pay more to live in a townhome
Now you share 2 walls with noisy neighbors instead of a ceiling. That's arguably worse
>sharing walls is worse than sharing walls and ceilings and floors
Example #2 of renters being retarded
Even if it were some Wayside School shit where apartments were stacked purely vertically with no side units, it's better to have shared walls than ceilings/floors.
I live in a real house, pod life is for homosexuals and bugmen
I'm living in this situation right now, I can literally hear the piss hitting the toilet from my upstairs neighbor. Between that and dogs barking, and hearing everyone in the hallway, and stomping, I've been looking at buying a place.
There's a semi-detached in a shitty part of town with no garage, and it's basically the cheapest thing in my area and it starts at 550k for 1345sqft with a shared driveway.
With 30k down on a 5% mortgage rate that's $3145/mo.
Meanwhile I pay $1600/mo for a 2bedroom 1000sqft apartment with rent control and indoor parking. Basically have to double my rent just to not get pissed on and a tiny small space and a tiny lawn.
Even with 20% down, 110k, it's still a $2559/mo mortgage which is half of my after-tax income. It's not even setup nice enough that I could live in the basement and turn it into a duplex and rent out the other bedrooms. Plus with maintenance, property tax, insurance, utilities, internet, it'd be the definition of house poor.
Basically buying any house is signing up to put 90% of your income into the house for the next 25 years. No sane person should do that, yet here we are.
>why can't I find a detached house for the same price as my rent controlled apartment?
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid renters are.
Retard this is a semi-detached not detached.
In more sane areas you could put 5% down and your mortgage would be less than the cost to rent the same place.
Houses in my area could be rented for $2300/month, yet mortgages are $3145.
Plenty of cheap places to live. Pick a non-purple part of this map.
I'm a leaf in southern ontario, I'd have to move 10hrs north or to another province to get reasonable prices. Can't work remotely full time though so that's out of the question.
It sucks but I'm able to save money and accumulate wealth still. Should be able to just retire to SEA in a few years, I'll take that over working another 25 years just for a shitty house.
Move to America.
I would if I could, US companies won't even bother interviewing me half the time because I don't live in the area.
Even if I did get hired I'd only be able to get a TN visa which can't be used to get a greencard, so if I lost my job I'd have a few months to find a new one or move back to Canada.
Only reasonable ways I see would be to get an investor visa with $1 million or marry into a green card, both of which are out of reach.
It's kind of insane how hard it is to legally move there from a 1st world country while millions of illegals are able to just walk in. Very dysgenic government policy.
Your defeatist attitude is your downfall.
Eeew
There's some security in a townhome, I keep seeing more naggers in my town and I'm glad I have based trump supporters flanking me in case of chimpout or general joggery. But yeah if you don't have retards putting up section 8 in your city it seems retarded
Cost.
>The only way to live is in a house on a back road in the sticks with very few neighbors that aren’t right next to you, or no neighbors at all.
major chud moment
Condos and townhomes are for people who don't mind the lack of privacy living in multi-family units, but want to actually own their home and built equity instead of lining a landlord's pockets. I'd rather have a SFH myself, but I can understand the purpose they serve. It's a decent way to get into your own place too if you aren't at the point in your life to afford a SFH as condos and townhomes tend to be a bit cheaper all else being equal (but this is also before HOA/COA). Then once you've built enough equity and have the money saved to buy a detached home, sell the townhome and upgrade.
Yep. Exactly 2 years in a condo and I've saved about $90k by not continuing my apartment's lease (~$30k in money that would have gone to the landlord ~$60k in property appreciation). It's not great, have a couple noisy neighbors, but whatever.
Hey Pippa, I just want to say I am a really big fan. I know it is you since your writing style is the same as your twitter posts. Hope you are doing well.
It's not pippa anon, that is reddit spacing
People are just people, they shouldnt make you nervous.
I find the country sad and lonely. I hate leaving the city, even just to drive somewhere and like living near people.
In Australia on the outskirts of the cities are thousands and thousands of these new townhouses popping up everywhere. All being sold as a complete house at $400,000+
And new ones are being built everyday.
If the banks are really financing these with a value of $400k then it's not looking good
Cunts fucked. I have a house on a fairly large block and boomers always come to me with the brilliant idea of knocking it down and putting toenhouses on it. No fuck off I want my own backyard and privacy
some of them are okay
I paint condos, townhouses, etc at work and some of the complexes are full of nice people who know each other and have formed little communities
I lived in a townhome with my dad for a little bit as a teenager, it was cool until they bussed in a bunch of section 8 naggers which we eventually had to leave because of. They would hang out in the garage under us all day smoking grape swisher blunts and blasting music in 10 minute intervals so when security showed up they weren't doing it anymore and would play dumb. When we went on a 3 or 4 day vacation one of the neighbors told us he saw one of them trying to break in. Can't even imagine how bad that area is now.