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Re:Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:31AM (#34231041)
I like it too, but only to visit friends and party every now and then. With that terrible housing market over there I can't ever see myself moving there to live permanently now. In hindsight maybe 4-5 years ago would have been the time for that but not in the current housing market. If you lucked out and got a nice flat before housing went to hell, good for you.

Unless all you care about is tech start-ups and wild parties with drugs and cheap beer, the housing market there and general poor state makes it a bad place to live if you're used to high quality of life cities, like Vienna for example.

I'd like to live in a place where finding housing that isn't overpriced and poorly maintained, isn't a full time job in of itself where you spend dozens of hours and compete with hundreds of people hunger games style. Since I'm not a student anymore, the party scene doesn't make up for that huge hassle.

Re:Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes by j-krieger on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @09:24AM (#34231668)
I see Berliners crying about their rent every day, but compared to Munich rent is still affordable in Berlin.
Re:Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:01PM (#34235126)
>but compared to Munich rent is still affordable in Berlin

I hear this a lot, and this may still have been the case 4 years ago or so, but I feel this is mostly coming from people who found housing in Berlin before Covid and aren't experiencing the current market.