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Well, that's why you're just thinking and talking about it instead of profiting from it. How long have you been unconvinced, by the way? 5 years? 10? That's pretty much it. Look at all the older people with million dollar houses close to the city. How did they do it? Simple: it wasn't that...

I agree that the Netherlands is different from Australia. Australia's population growth is more rapid, the country is bigger, and less densely populated. And our transport network sucks. Though I thought we were talking about the 350 year trend of a SPECIFIC street in Amsterdam, not the...

The average salary has apparently reached 60k. I wonder how much people borrowed 30-40 years ago to buy their homes?

Problem with the Herengracht Index is that it's based on houses that have remained the same for 350 years, and the population of Amsterdam (I'm just going off Wikipedia here) has gone up from about 200,000 in the 17th century (I'll use 1650) to 1.36m in 2008. By my calculations, that's 0.54% a...