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Vancouver may have just add another notch to its reputation for being pricey.

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The Financial Post spoke to Canadians across the country about what it was like to live in housing markets that were in some ways very different, and some ways strikingly similar, to what we face now.





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According to U.S. group Demographia, Vancouver is the third-least affordable city in a study of 367 markets and nine countries around the world, and construction constraints are to blame for rising home prices there and in other Canadian cities.

Wendell Cox, the principal owner at Demographia says that’s a trend that can be seen in Toronto too as limits to ground-level detached housing in favour of condominium living are creating a shortage of housing as people refuse to move into high-rises.

Cox goes one step further and suggests the fertility rate will be impacted in the future in some Canadian cities. “A lot of people don’t want to raise children on the tenth floor of a condominium,” he said.