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The Whole World’s in a Housing Bubble Now
Prices are getting unaffordable from New York to New Zealand.
There’s a lot of this going around.
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One point three million U.S. dollars sounds like too many dollars to pay for a house that’s practically falling down, until you consider it’s in the suburb of a major city in a developed country that beat Covid-19, is relatively safe from nuclear fallout, and has a toothbrush fence.