What does housing cost in your area?

In Canada and the city where I live, people would rent a house like that for probably $2000 or more per month. A one-bedroom apartment is around $600. In the past 8 years or so prices have gone to the moon. It is very hard to start out in the house market. For example I bought a one bedroom apartment(condo)for around $60,000 7 years ago, and now it is worth easily triple that.

i live in tacoma ,wa i rent a one bd apt and it is only 415 amonth

I am in central Massachusetts and we rent an apartment. Our rent is below the typical rent in this area. Our apartment is approx 1000 square feet. We have 2 small bedrooms, small kitchen, large dining room, small office, ok size bathroom, large living room, small entry room, and a small enclosed porch area. We pay $750.00 a month with heat and hot water included. But like I said our rent is way below norm, other apartments in this area at this price are about half the square footage. Out apartment could get as much as 900 if some things were improved.

My place is about over a $1000 per year and we have to pay for two or three years Ben (Nigeria)

Hahahahaha are you ready? NYC studio apartment in a 6 story buiding, total 60 apartments, no control over heat, when it's on everone gets it, when is's off no one gets it. Rules, no pets, no washing machine, no dryer, no dishwasher, one elavator that breaks every week and if - sorry not if - when - you get stuck, you better have a cell with you or else your out of luck, very few people will come out to help especailly 3 or 4 in the morning. If you don't have a cell then you just sit on the floor (hope the light is still on) and yell for help, eventually someone will hear your cries for help. Two homeless people live on the roof, one sleeps in the boiler room. As soon as you start cooking you can hear the rats running in the ceiling, they smell the food so you have to take your broom and bang on the ceiling but don't bang too hard because you don't want to make a hole for the rodents to come in. Oh, by the way starting rent is $1,000.00 a month. Every year after it's a 7% increase. I will be moving very soon to Florida!

It's definitely expensive where we live which is Virginia. We live in a two bedroom, two bath condo/apartment and pay $1650 a month + utilities. It's going up by 5% in July. Alot of the condos around us are going for $600,000, even more. Unfortunately we are locked in our lease for two years, or else I would of found a cheaper place to rent by now. The only reason why my husband chose this place is because the metro is right across the street and the public school is just around the corner. Those were the only two factors he had in mind when he chose this place (he came to USA 3 months before my son and I arrived).

Unfortunately in my neck of the woods which is Orlando, Florida; prices have started gauging since 2 years ago. Our townhouse is now worth $174,000. When we first bought it 2 years ago, it was worth $110,000.

I live in Newbrunswick Canada and my mortgage is $490.00 a month for a 3 bed 2 bath house, I bought it last year for $48,000.00 it is about 2000 square feet. Rents in my area vary from $200.00 for a bachelor apartment all the way to $650.00 for a house rental, usually in between you can get an apartment with 2 bedrooms, bath, living room and kitchen for about $385.00

i live in a trailer park. i have a 14 x66 single wide trailer which is about 800 square feet of living space, we have 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room and kitchen and small utility room where the washer and dryer is. I pay 200 per month on my home loan and 300 lot rent for the space that my trailer sits on. I have to say i rather rent the house you have for that much. I live between Allentown and Reading pennsylvania. now my property taxes run me about a grand a year and i do not even own the land my trailer sits on.

I think I might emigrate to Erie as I could live quite comfortably if I had only to pay $580 per month for a house. Here in Ireland the same house as yours would cost about $1200 to rent and more in the bigger cities. It would probably cost twice that amount in Dublin depending on the area. Thankfull we bought our house. The mortgage was a bit steep when we started out but it was worth it in the end.

In the suburbs of Buffalo, NY the mortgage for my 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch house with a full basement is $475/month; taxes are about $3,000/year. Most homes comparable to mine (small ranch houses, 1 family, small lot, 1 car garage) in the area sell for around $80-$90,000. Utilities are reasonable in a small house. Rent for a decent 2 bedroom apartment in the area is around $750/month, which includes heat and water. This sounds pretty comparable to Erie- your rent includes taxes, which the mortgage holder pays, and mine is without the taxes. What is the cost of living in Alaska? I imagine it would be rather steep.

A one-bedroom apartment runs about $1200/month + utilities in Toronto. That's Canadian, so probably about $1025 US. The average 2-bedroom house is selling for around $250,000-$300,000, depending on what area you are looking in.

I lived in Alaska for 6 months - everything is shipped up there and costly. Milk was $5.25 a gallon in 1998. Rental housing is scarce - they only want to sell. I left and came to West Virginia and my house and rent was like yours, but food here is cheaper than in PA, NY and NJ. Why Alaska?

You might want to stay where your at. You are getting a great deal. The average in this area of Washington is about $700 - $1000 for what you are renting. But shop around we rented a 3 bed 1 bath with a garage and outside city limits for $550, but that was a year ago. Since then we bought 2 acres with a 3 bedroom 1 bath and 2, 1 bedroom rental houses all for $115,000. Our payments are $1080 this includes property tax and insurance, without them our payment would be $860

My area is costly $500,000 and up to buy a 3 bedroom home and rent $2000 a month. I'm located in sunny Southern California near the beach and we don't have seasons. You wouldn't want to live here, as Alaska is really cold and I'm feeling cold just thinking about it. I wear shorts most of the time.

The average running price for a house in our area is about eighty to a hundrend thousand although you can find some that are cheaper then this . The place we are renting now is the most expensive place we have ever rented and I don't know anyone in our area paying as much for rent as we are . We have to pay four hunderd a month , rent usually runs about two fifty a month to three fifty . We are living in a three bedroom house and I really don't like the place we are living in . We were living in a big spacious house with four bedrooms and were only paying three fifty a month with a wood stove in it to save on the heating cost but had to move when they finally decided to sell to a family member . We were going to buy it as we were supposed to be given first option but there were a bunch of family members involved in this and they decided to go against the guy we were renting from and sold it out to another family member . The guy that we were renting from was very upset as he knew they would never get anything for the house and he had really wanted to sell to us . But we understood that it was something that the others wanted to keep in the family and so we told him not to worry about it and found this place . But we are looking for something else as the guy who owns this house wants to put the rent up another fifty dollars and already we are paying more then anyone else around . We have a porch , kitchen , dining room , living room , bathroom , basement and the three bedrooms and lots of land outside but it is still very high considering that places around here are not that expensive compared to other's around us . This may seem really cheap for a lot of you but the cost of living here is much cheaper as the pay we recieve is not very much . We have a lot of people from away coming to buy in our area as they find it so cheap and it is really pretty as we live right on the Cabot Trail Road .

I live in North Van adn it is abotu $1800 a month to rent a 3 bedroom town house plus utilities.

Don't come to California. You can't find a 2 bedroom house for less than $1,200 to %1,500 in a nice neighborhood. I live in an RV and I pay $425 a month for the space plus electricity. I checked apartments and houses and I just can't afford it. However, CA has such a great climate that I will stay here without paying the horrible rent for houses and apartments.

Wow your housing is very expensive. Right now i am just staying with my parents though i have already my own family because i am the one caring for my parents. I want to make sure that they eat right and they are in good health always. Thats why i dont really fell the need of having a house of my own. But certainly me and my husband are planning but on later years.

Houses are smaller in England than America - we have less space!! A standard 2 floor, 3 bedroom with kitchen and 2 reception rooms (each abour 12ft x 12ft) would cost between £600 £2000 per month in 'average' areas across the UK. That's $1200 $4000. A lot of people rent in the UK but I think the majority still buy their property through mortgages.