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helloworld732on It could be years until we see a normal housing market

Cool and Bucharest and Los Angeles are both major cities in their respective countries and on a worldwide basis and yet the cost of housing between the two is significant. So based on my anecdotal experience I can therefore conclude that all real estate is cheap in Europe. And if anyone challenges me on that statement I'll simply say that won't change my reality and then tell them they're being disingenuous. Or more aptly someone else will say it for me.

helloworld732on It could be years until we see a normal housing market

>You're saying that the European equivalent of Dallas is ... Bucharest? Really?

Strictly in terms of how their cost of housing compares to their larger geographic areas (US and Europe), yes. Both are less than the median. In all other aspects, no. I personally haven't visited any European city that's as equivalently awful as Dallas.

My point was you can't just look at Dallas and assume that all real estate in the US is affordable and that everyone in the US looking for affordable housing has it easy. The problem is ChuckNorris89 took Dallas then applied it to the US in general in their comments.

It would have been equally incorrect if someone had said, "as an American I envy how affordable real estate is in Europe compared to California for example. I have a bunch of colleagues that live in Bucharest and they can live in very cheap houses while I'm stuck in a small, extremely expensive apartment in Los Angeles. Living next to the beach is nice in Los Angeles, but the real estate market there is crazy compared to how good Europe has it."

helloworld732on It could be years until we see a normal housing market

>As an European I envy how affordable real estate is in the US compared to Germany for example

You're comparing apples to oranges. You're comparing one of the cheapest major cities in the US to one of the more expensive cities in Europe. According to Zillow the median home price in Dallas is just under $300,000 but the median home price in Seattle where I'm currently renting and trying to buy a home is 3 times that at $900,000. So please don't tell me how good I have it in the US with real estate. With how large and diversified the US is, a more fair comparison would be to compare Dallas real estate prices to say a city like Bucharest and compare Munich real estate prices to a major US city on the west coast (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle) or the northeast (DC, New York City, Boston).