Topic: 美国是世界首富.可美国人口调查局近日宣布，1999年美国家庭年收入40816美元.看来美国的大半老百姓生活的够呛.一个家才4万美金,怎么买房,上好学校? @枫下论坛 The Rolia Forum

枫下家园 / 生活杂事 / 美国是世界首富.可美国人口调查局近日宣布，1999年美国家庭年收入40816美元.看来美国的大半老百姓生活的够呛.一个家才4万美金,怎么买房,上好学校? -guest:; 2001-4-30 (#57936@0)

In most US states(except for San Jose, MA, Connecticut..etc, of course), living expense is lower than that in Toronto, even after you take exchange rate into account -numnum(numnum); 2001-4-30 (#57948@0)
美国平均房价也就14万多，上公立大学一年学费也就几千刀。 -guest:jiji; 2001-4-30 (#57949@0)

Give you an example. My family has bought a house in a very nice suburb of Dallas, 2500 squre feet, 4 bedrooms ,two car garage, a huge back yard. It only cost about 15,0000 USD. -numnum(numnum); 2001-4-30 (#57956@0)

i know u want to mention dalllas, or TX, give a more representative exp? -guest:guest; 2001-4-30 (#57958@0)

It's quite cheap in the midwest too. In Cleveland, Ohio, you can buy a big house under 200,000 US. -numnum(numnum); 2001-4-30 {500} (#57960@0)
In the twin-city, Minesota, it's about the same. Even around big cities, like suburbs of Chicago,say, in Evanston, Deerfield, Skokie, you can get a mid-size house (2200 squre feet) for about 200,000. Just avoid those hot-shot places, like San Jose, Boston, and Connecticut. All these houses I am talking about are actually around heavily populated metro areas, the houses in those southern states (such as Alabama) are much cheaper.
So the average housing price for US is very likely to be 140000

all usay is good, just suspect the figure 140000, MI -guest:guest; 2001-4-30 (#57966@0)

15,000 or 150,000 , I would be very surprise if it is 15,000 -xuhp(LOST); 2001-4-30 (#57968@0)

如果你不认为美国人个个都挣十万八万，那么美国的房子也不会个个都卖三四十万。除了东西海岸，房价都不会很高。ANN ARBOR，MI 的房子是有点贵，但也不离谱。 -guest:Jiji; 2001-4-30 (#57984@0)

It's free education, too many scholarship and grants for local people, even more than Canadian students. -guest:; 2001-5-1 (#58202@0)