London's prices are jumping this year considerably, and we are the 3rd world compared to Toronto.
I can't believe what our crap Canadian houses, on our postage-stamp-sized-yards "taxed to the tits" houses are going for. Property taxes, personal taxes, hydro rates, house prices... I don't see how people can even afford to buy frags in this day and age. How are our kids supposed to afford a shack, much less a house? We'll soon be seeing multi-generation houses, with kids-parents-grandparents all in the same house to afford the expenses...and the government will then tax the crap out of "multi household incomes".
Oh but hey, that windmill thing will likely get us free electricity soon, right? right?
What you get in a place like Texas (with no state tax either), compared to here is almost crimonal. I'll be kicking myself for ages for not moving when the dollar was on par and the bubble was bursting, I'd be up an easy $500K USD on the house we were looking at. It was $600K with 5 acres, a main house, a guest house, 2 kitchens, a 100' infinity edge pool, a view, free fire ants, castle law, river access/ownership, lakefront (well lake was a salt bed but it's a lake again). FRAK.
/RANT