{"id":25700,"date":"2021-12-19T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t3_rjz7yo"},"modified":"2021-12-19T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:41:18","slug":"why-is-housing-in-calgary-so-affordable-relative-to-gta-gva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/19\/why-is-housing-in-calgary-so-affordable-relative-to-gta-gva\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is housing in Calgary so affordable (relative to GTA &amp; GVA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Genuine question, as someone from Toronto. I have never lived there for longer than 2 weeks. It&#039;s close to the mountains and has amazing outdoor activities. I know the winters can be harsh and politics can be controversial but we have those too in Ontario (e.g., Ottawa).<\/p>\n<p>I would imagine it&#039;s similar to Denver Colorado given they are both mountain cities? But in Denver, the housing prices are significantly higher.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/WeDislikeTaxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \/u\/WeDislikeTaxes <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/rjz7yo\/why_is_housing_in_calgary_so_affordable_relative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/rjz7yo\/why_is_housing_in_calgary_so_affordable_relative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><a href=\"\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genuine question, as someone from Toronto. I have never lived there for longer than 2 weeks. It&#039;s close to the mountains and has amazing outdoor activities. I know the winters can be harsh and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}