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Level42:
Just on the news on Dutch national TV:

The terrible situation in the home market in Florida.

You can get a beautiful (very big to our standards) home for €112,000 including swimming pool.

If I sell my house now, I can buy two of those and still have enough money to move over there.

Anyone got a job for a fire-alarm engineer over there ?

patrickl:
Selling your house (in the Netherlands) is quite impossible at the moment though.

People who bought a house in 2008 and who then tried to sell their old house are having no luck selling their old house. Everybody I know, who wants to move, puts their current house up for sale first and then waits for it to be sold before they start looking for a house to buy. Of course if everyone is waiting for their house to be sold first ... nothing gets sold.

This is a recipe for disaster. When people start losing their jobs, house prices will start plummeting overhere too.

Level42:
Well actually my neighbors two doors further just sold their house within 2 months time. It's not THAT bad. Yet.

Spaz Monkey:
Wait untill you try to insure that home in Florida.  The cost of homeowners insurance has driven some companies out of the state.  $150,000 rebuild cost for 1990's home in Miami-Dade county runs between $2,500 a year and $7,000 a year with a $3,000 huricane deductible.

Blanka:
Either build it Dutch Style Level 42, which means a "tunnelkist" construction with brick facade. No hurricane insurance needed for that. It will only lose some rooftiles.
Or go to Detroit. There you can buy a house for 100$:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/the-move-to-detroit.php

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