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Re:92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-d... by anovikov on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:37AM (#38128549)
https://infogram.com/1pqdpn20vkmlelcq6qx7jzwz9pf00g9xnq5

https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/

as for your link - easy, what's understood by "house" in Luxembourg is usually a "Soviet style apartment block". You need to be a billionaire to own a typical US-sized single family house there, these are passed down the generations from the people who were rich 100+ years ago.

https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...

This rating assumes same housing everywhere, not just "average house in a given country". In this case, easily U.S. can be among top 5, because being very rich, and as people say here in the same thread "everything apart from housing and healthcare is cheap anyway", a bigger chunk of expenses can go there.

Re:92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-d... by ethanbond on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:42AM (#38128630)
Did you by chance look at the charts in this?

For example, the western part of the country's $/sqft going from $140 to $220 from 2012 to 2022 -- including inflation adjustment?

Sorry but, "housing prices have only gone up by 20% in the last 10 years in areas that are hemorrhaging job opportunities and education!" is not a good counterargument.

Re:92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-d... by jonahrd on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:43AM (#38128640)
I see. This article compares GDP vs housing prices, which isn't a surprise that US fares very well because the US is stellar at GDP growth.

But GDP is _absolutely irrelevant_ to the average citizen's purchasing power / income.

Re:92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-d... by anovikov on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:46AM (#38128684)
The particular chart i posted a separate link for, uses inflation adjustment, not GDP adjustment.

And sure, every country has a growing segregation between attractive, expensive areas and unattractive, cheap ones. That's normal. Fitting into attractive ones is a matter of competition and only the best few will - there can't be a place for everyone there no matter how the economy is doing and how high/low are the taxes "for the rich" (because it's not the rich who are buying up the housing).