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enningtang 发表于 2015-3-23 16:29 
Houses in Albany are expensive for some good reasons, such as better building materials, better des ...
what I said is bus travel time + walking time from home to bus station + walking time from bus station to offce all add together. I'm not trying to say the bus alone take 1hour plus.
I don't disagree the north bus express is awesome. It's truely a unique advantage of North Shore.
Driving to city for work is getting hard and harder, not to mention parking is getting more scarce and more expensive.
And I also agree with you that Albany house tend to have better design and material, but not always. Albany builders aim for a higher market segment and probabily have a higher profit margin, so more money can go into design, material etc.. Flat Bush basically aim for the buyers can't afford (or don't want to) buy North Shore / Central properties, and generially have a smaller profile margin, so less money (or no money..) goes into design etc..
But not always, I'm sure if people willing to look around and prepared to pay more, there must still be top quality houses in FB.
But coming back to the original point, 150k - 300k isn't small money, personally for me, 150k-300k more mortgage will push me over the boundry to consider the house as unaffordable. 50-100k more I can accept, but not 150k-300k. |
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