Survey Survey.. Mari buat Survey

I want to do a little survey. Nope sorry, you won't get paid.

I was hopping over to Adrian's blog and he mentioned he walked into a condo showroom with a price tag around RM800k. Honestly, even if I sell my Ipoh house, my cars, my dogs and my body I also cannot afford RM800k. Please, don't ask me to borrow from bank with the full amount. I'll be eating bread crumbs every month just to make the installments and that's just the most optimistic view. For all I know, the bank won't even 'choi' me.

You see, there's a few rows of low cost houses near my place. Low cost here meant those houses are around RM30-50k. Well, you might say those are humble folks with limited 'means.' I thought that too... until I see their BMWs, Benz, Camry and Pajeros parked in front of their house. Obviously their cars are more expensive than their homes.

This is kisah benar. My friend's brother staying in those low cost flat near Taman Desa has a room mate driving a BMW. That BMW guy is renting a RM250/month room. Of course from my viewpoint I will say why on earth if you can afford a BMW you want to just rent a room? No offense to those peeps staying in the Tmn Desa flat, OK? I'm just looking at it from a logical standpoint.

We are of course taught from young to live within our means. But what I want to find out is, how much are you willing to fork out to buy your very own home?

Or.. you prefer to drive 300k cars and live in 30k homes? Drive Accord and rent room? Assuming you're those who can afford both, then it's a no brainer. What happen when you have to choose?