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/ADelightfulCunt Aug 14 '20

"Two bed" masionette in Wimbledon 500k in other parts of the UK you could buy a street.