• Quokka@quokk.au
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    11 months ago

    Mate, I earn below median wage and I could buy a “holiday home”. This isn’t something fancy, it’s a shitty old house in the bush.

    What I can’t afford is a house where jobs and people are, the city.

    • Dojan@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I think a lot of people hear holiday home and think like, tropical bungalow. A holiday home here in Sweden usually won’t have a sewage connection, and oftentimes not even running water. You’d have to use a potty and bring potable water yourself. You could get these pretty cheap so long as you’re in a position where you have some money left over after expenses.

      A proper house will easily be 10x the amount a holiday home is.

      There are fancier ones of course, that can basically double as a home. Anyone I know that has such a thing owns it as a family (as in grandparents, siblings, etc.).

      • prole@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        I think people are picturing that, because that’s what’s been happening elsewhere; foreign investors using luxury real estate as an investment.

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          11 months ago

          Well yes, not saying those aren’t a thing, but they’re not the only type of holiday homes. It’s not unfeasible for a normal person living above subsistence to be able to afford a holiday home.

          Saying “oh you have a holiday home you’ve enough of an advantage” doesn’t really work in all cases.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      A holiday home is a second home. If you don’t have a home already and that’s what you purchase, it’s not your holiday home, it’s your only home.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        They mention “the city”, I interpret it as the same situation as what used to be mine, owned my main residence in a city but not in THE city so prices are lower but most jobs are outside of the city I lived in, that allowed me to buy a second residence out in the woods for cheap, but I couldn’t live there full time (no water in winter, floor isn’t insulated).

    • minorninth@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      So wouldn’t the fees be proportional to the price? The added taxes on a tiny cheap holiday home would be cheap too.