Saturday, April 17, 2010

Crack Shack or Mansion?

To say that a million dollars won't get you far in the Vancouver real estate market would be an understatement.
Can you tell the difference between a million-dollar Vancouver property and a crack shack? Vancouver teacher Petr Pospisil bets you can’t — or at least will struggle to do so.

Distraught over the city’s exorbitant real-estate prices, Pospisil and his girlfriend Ola Rogula, a lab tech at the University of B.C., came up this week with Crack Shack or Mansion? — a cheeky online quiz that challenges users to differentiate between alleged drug houses and million-dollar homes.

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2 comments:

  1. These houses are basically in the part of the West End that is zoned detached dwelling only. The lots alone are worth a mil. You could have a mansion, a crackhouse, or a chicken coop on the lot and it would still cost a million bucks. Other parts of the West End have high rises and are very densely populated.

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  2. I know that's what they cost. Whether they're worth it is a different matter. Years ago we toyed with the idea of moving west but we like to go to Europe a few times a year and the extra hours on a plane did not appeal to me. Now we couldn't afford to make the move even if we wanted to.

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