Posted Oct 17, 2011, 11:02 PM
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Retrofit Urbanist
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by Radley77
I found myself agreeing with a lot of the people in this article. I had made the following spreadsheet a few years ago just looking at all these other transportation cost factors:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dtciaspuu0g
I think at the time we had taken all these costs and done a net present value calculation to compare against the price of a potential house purchase. For our situation, the cost of a long commute was about an additional $290,000.
I am really impressed by the Calgary Herald for their "Project Calgary" series. |
A large part of my Master's Thesis was on the Housing/Transportation Affordability index.
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