How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?

Re:How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? by peterburkimsher on Saturday September 09, 2017 @03:21AM (#15205943)

I would really like to see similar graphics for Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada. I don't know where to get the data though, and I don't think I could make such a beautiful visualisation as he did.

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Re:How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? by ddeck on Saturday September 09, 2017 @06:22AM (#15206395)

For the data, the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey provides affordability data for many countries and cities:

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

The top 10 least affordable with respect to median price/income ratios:

    China Hong Kong              18.1
    Australia Sydney, NSW,       12.2
    Canada Vancouver, BC         11.8
    N.Z. Auckland                10.0
    U.S. San Jose, CA             9.6
    Australia Melbourne, VIC      9.5
    U.S. Honolulu, HI             9.4
    U.S. Los Angeles, CA          9.3
    U.S. San Francisco, CA        9.2
    U.K. Bournemouth & Dorset     8.9

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Re:How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? by mobiletelephone on Saturday September 09, 2017 @08:15AM (#15206727)

Wait... Bournemouth and Dorset!?!?

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Re:How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? by epicalex on Saturday September 09, 2017 @09:42AM (#15207030)

Yep, Sandbanks brings the average up http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/Sandbanks.html

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Re:How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? by andyjohnson0 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @10:38AM (#15207263)

"Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth highest land value in the world" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbanks

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