The Home Crowd

In a great article by Neha Grey at Divine Caroline, Neha compares what your home buck gets you here vs. abroad. Below you have a French Chateau, which $500,000 would get you a quarter ownership or that same 500K would get you a very plain home in L.A. suburb downey.

Hmm, Downey or France? I’m familiar with both. Downey is a decent place, very dull, the people are rude, and the food is terrible. France matches all these qualities plus some.

That first pic reminds me of every Bond villain or any supervillain from the movies though. All had exquisite palatial estates in far off exotic countries. Now that I know what these evil geniuses paid for their homes, I’m less likely to believe that they weren’t so much criminal masterminds as they were disgruntled office workers who cashed out their 401K’s and moved overseas.

The depressing facts (6 more eye opening and hair pulling examples) from Divine Caroline.