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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by mdoms on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:56PM (#28794325)
As someone who lives somewhere with an actual housing crisis, I just did a Zillow search for homes in Austin and I don't think you quite understand what a housing crisis looks like. Your homes look dirt cheap by Kiwi standards.
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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by etchalon on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:03PM (#28794398)
They look cheap because they're underpriced. At the moment, most houses are closing 15-20% higher than list and a lot of them are offered in all cash deals.

That's slowly changing, but I suspect that's temporary.

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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by mehrdada on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:26PM (#28795420)
Bay Area homes are like that too. I implore you to check some Zillow in Mountain View and compare. Not in the same ballpark even.
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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by etchalon on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:35AM (#28796058)
You're comparing Mountain View, a town of 80,000 people and 12 square miles, to ALL of Austin, with 270 square miles and nearly a million people.

There are incredibly expensive parts of Austin. There are cheaper places in Austin.

The areas where upper-middle class Bay Area tech workers would want to love are not in the cheaper areas.

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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by mehrdada on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:03PM (#28805106)
Mountain View is just an example, and not an extreme one like Atherton or Palo Alto. Even if you go as far as say Pleasanton the market is still in another league compared to Austin.
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