Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities

Re:Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities by grav1tas on Monday January 24, 2011 @06:27PM (#2137248)

It appears to be using the data from KCK. If it's pulling the population data from there it might be a safe bet that everything else is from KCK, too. That being said, regardless, I think the entire bit about KC being ranked up near San Fran and NYC is way off. There's very reasonably priced housing in the greater metro area. I don't think the sample they're using on this site is very accurate at all. I find it really hard to believe that of all the midwestern places to live on this site, Kansas City is the most expensive in terms of Rent:Buy. 200-300k? This probably isn't true of some of the big swaths of outer KC I've driven through, and it definitely isn't true of the suburban areas.

Aside from this little sampling problem, and it's easily fixed, no big deal, I think this site is really cool and a great way to look at affordable places to live.

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Re:Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities by aik on Monday January 24, 2011 @10:28PM (#2137851)

Yeah if it's specifically from KCK, depending on where in KCK that high buy dollar could make sense. But for a lot of parts of KCK, and the Missouri side, 200-300k is ridiculously high compared to what I would expect. Most suburbs in general have much lower prices.

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