Houses cheaper than cars!

I usually take the National Highway No. 24 while coming to office and like always today too I couldn’t help but notice a large signboard saying – “Coming soon: Houses cheaper than cars”.

And like always today too I thought, “What’s the big deal. It has been the case for decades; at least as far as high-end cars were concerned. Cars like Merc and BMW would always costs higher than an average 2BHK house.”

However, that’s not what the advertiser meant when he put up that signboard on the highway. He obviously was taking into account cars, which are within the reach of the urban middle class.

But, then he forgot to mention or purposely refrained from stating the location of the site. Still, it’s common knowledge that the farther you move from the city limits the cheaper the rates get.

Here too the same logic would apply or chances are it may be a teaser advert for one-bedroom houses, which are easily affordable.

In any case you might find more such adverts of late and I would just say they are all measures to counter the ongoing recession.