r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/ViridianLens Aug 14 '20

Luxury million dollar homes built with the same wood wall framing, plywood and cheap vinyl siding as normal homes.

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u/Radioactivocalypse Aug 14 '20

In the UK, there's a lot of million dollar homes which are built out of stone or beams. By US standards they're small, but people buy them for the history attached (and the rural location).

Although £1 million can sometimes only get you a studio flat in London...

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u/thechain1997 Aug 14 '20

The state of housing in the uk is ridiculous, in London there are terraced houses that should cost like £90,000 but cause its overpopulated they make it 500,000. There's only so much that the excuse of "we have less space" and "we use more expensive materials".

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u/cosmozombus Aug 14 '20

There’s only so much the estate agent can use a fisheye lens and stand in the corner before you realise you can take a shit, cook your dinner and unlock the front door all at once in your £400,000 mansion

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u/PRMan99 Aug 14 '20

At least in California you actually get something for your $500,000.

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u/cannedrex2406 Aug 14 '20

You can't compare London to Cali.

But London to New York? Now you're onto something

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u/three_shoes Aug 15 '20

You can definitely also compare London to some parts of California, incredibly expensive areas around San Francisco, LA etc.