Damn, if I could buy a house for $100 000... In Finland you can't find a studio apartment for that price usually. Unless you go outside "populated areas" which in Finland means something like 30 people per square mile (turning these values to miles is hard). Then you can find that studio for under 100k. If you go all the way north, where there are even less people, something like 2.5 per square mile, then you might be able to find an apartment for 2 at that price. The reason I suppose is that the building quality needs to be really good to last winters, not only because of the cold, but also due to the ground freezing and causing all sorts of issues.
Old houses usually start from $150 000 or so, but I wouldn't buy such a house. Currently we live in an apartment, which is a little under 200 000€ ($244 000), it is cheap for its size about 80 square meters (I don't know what you use for house size measurement over there).
Finland and Sweden are crazy, when it comes to real estate prices. That’s why I’m seriously considering moving to Portugal. Way better climate, lower cost of life, affordable housing, better food, AND zero tax on crypto and pensions. It’s as good as it gets without leaving the EU.
Hey, people have always moved around the planet in search of more freedom - I say go for it! :D
Denmark is really expensive as well! Crazy what you pay for in the big cities
In the US we use ye olde Imperial Units - so that's square feet.
1 square meter is 10.76 square feet.