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    1. mrbobcyndaquil on

      So basically the only nations with affordable housing are godforsaken hellholes and South Africa (which is just a heckhole)

    2. TheWeisGuy on

      I mean the cheap housing in the US is probably in like middle-of-nowhereville. It’s not cheap in places most would want to live

    7. dovetc on

      I’m surprised by Australia. From everything I’ve read online over the years I would have assumed they had it at least as bad as Canada.

    8. Gold_Telephone_7192 on

      Important perspectives for Americans. I know Redditors like to talk about the US being the worst country on earth, but many things are better here than in most other countries. If you think it’s hard to own a house in the US, try buying one in Europe or Canada

    9. bellerinho on

      Just doesn’t make much sense to do this at an entire country level. There are enormous housing affordability differences within each country

      For example, no one can afford to live in places like San Francisco or Bozeman or Jackson Hole, but you could live in Memphis or Albuquerque for relatively affordable prices

    10. LundiMartes on

      For example I bought a house priced 250k $ in Turkiye which is not even highest priced area, just a regular apartment block 3+1. For such a low income country prices is really huge.

    11. ContinuumGuy on

      The thing with maps like this is that since it goes with an entire country it erases the vast differences inside a country. Parts the US are probably worse in price than anywhere else in the world, and other parts are better than anywhere else.

    12. gtfckdbrnlssbts on

      ah, yeah. they surely have data on North Korea lmao that alone should make you question the whole map

    14. Endless_5uffering on

      The US looks a decent bit better than it is for the average American, mostly due to how fucked the income inequality is (certainly not just because of fly-over states).

    15. landlord-eater on

      Literally 90% of Chinese own their own homes lmao what is this insane map

    16. Working_Elephant5344 on

      I think it’s less about housing being cheap in the US and more about Americans earning 3-5 times their counterparts in Canada and much of Europe. This map focuses on a ratio.

    17. chimugukuru on

      Now break down the US by states. I’m from Hawaiʻi. We’re definitely in the ‘impossibly unaffordable’ category.

    18. Urogallo40 on

      Spain, even bad, is better than most EU countries, because it has many secondary cities and villages with quite affordable prices. Big cities are much more expensive.

    19. Realistic-Homework19 on

      Turns out the situation in the Netherlands is not that bad after all, comparatively. Didn’t expect that.

    20. delcooper11 on

      where’s the second “seriously unaffordable” country? did they count alaska as a separate one?

    21. ArtisticOperation399 on

      The pain of not being born in South Africa. Land of opportunity. What I wouldn’t give. 

    22. gigalongdong on

      China being highly unaffordable yet 91% of adults being homeowners makes me doubt the validity of the data entirely.

    24. Yitastics on

      Americans like to say their house market is absurdly expensive, they often make it sound worse than it actually is.

      Its the same where I live, we are having a “housing crisis” but that is mostly only if you rent. My and a couple of friends of mine have bought a house in the last ~3 years while being in our 20’s. It only becomes hard to buy a house if you earn the minimum, which is to be expected if your income is low.

    25. Green-Draw8688 on

      The Saudi / UAE figures are likely skewed by the fact that citizen’s houses are heavily subsidised by the government such that they cost them very little. Most expat residents will be very far away from affording to buy property,

    26. Jealous_Tutor_5135 on

      Relatively speaking, if nothing is affordable, everything is affordable right?

    27. littypika on

      North Korea being moderately unaffordable, compared to the rest of the world being either severely unaffordable or impossible unaffordable is an insane statistic.

    29. Dominyck on

      Hold on, so you are saying, United States…. not so expensive? Damn, I guess I just need to lock in.

    30. ObjectiveAside3266 on

      I immediately noticed that the Data is incorrect

      Basically the whole world is ‘impossible’?

      Well, that’s impossible

      Second point: affordable ends at 3? That’s a real joke

    32. Scared_Afternoon_164 on

      In my region of Canada I just bought a beautiful triplex as a rental/living unit for $610,000 CAD

      Same Triplex in Vancouver would be 1.5 million or more.

    34. jameson71 on

      I’m here waiting for the children I see in every Reddit thread about housing to tell us that it’s unfair how expensive housing is in the US and that old folks should just die so that the children can have the house they want in the neighborhood they want right now.

    35. Dangerous_Leg4584 on

      Canada is very misleading. The big cities are unaffordable but there are many smaller towns and rural areas where it is still very affordable.

    37. StuffyTruck on

      How do they compensate for regional differences inside a country?
      It’s easily 10 times the price between non-desirable and highly desirable places here.