• @disguy_ovahea
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      105 months ago

      Where is this magical land of under $200k houses?

        • @[email protected]
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          45 months ago

          I mean, if all you want is mediocre food chains, fast food, a bowling alley, and a movie theater, you’re pretty set. That’s not enough for me, hence why I left.

            • @[email protected]
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              35 months ago

              I like in a UK town of 37k people, and we have neither. The last cinema closed long enough ago to still have a poster for The Woman in Black outside.

      • @NoDignity
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        55 months ago

        I live in St. Louis and you can still get decent houses in nice neighborhoods in the 200 - 300k range though it is getting a bit harder.

        • SeaJ
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          35 months ago

          St Louis is shrinking pretty rapidly so it is not surprising to find decently priced homes.

      • @PriorityMotif
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        25 months ago

        I live in such a town. You could buy a gorgeous mid century style home for less than that. It’s very close to one of the best universities in the county. There is an Amtrak station that is 2hrs from a major city. It’s only a 2hr drive to two other major cities. A lot of nice bike paths. It’s in a large blue state. Only 15-20 minutes to a mid sized city Fiber Internet is available. Cons: Schools aren’t the best, because there is quite a bit of poverty because it’s a low cost of living area. Property taxes are quite high. So if you don’t have kids it is a decent place to live. You could also move out of city limits where you’re outside of the school district as that is the majority of property taxes.

          • @AngryCommieKender
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            Literally like 50% of the US. The further out you go, the lower the cost of property and houses gets. The issue is living that far out of town. My parents manage to do it, I couldn’t.

            Basically the country.

  • Flying Squid
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    115 months ago

    And we couldn’t afford a home when we moved out of L.A. back to Indiana over 10 years ago. It was one of the reasons we moved back.

  • @venusaur
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    65 months ago

    That’s pretty low. Based on prices in my neighborhood I assumed median was easily over $1M.

  • @Cosmonauticus
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    45 months ago

    The plus side is once insurance companies leave California due to all the wildfires from climate change housing prices will drop as fast as their smoldering condos.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      115 months ago

      Nah, the US government will pander to the real estate industry and subsidize insurance, just like they have done in the south east for flood insurance.

      California is the nation’s biggest economy and the nation’s biggest real estate market. If that were to get disrupted, people are going to freak out like they did in 2008.

      • @Cosmicomical
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        15 months ago

        If your only hope is the wildfires you have a serious problem