Why the government took home prices out of its main inflation index

Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla... by bombcar on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:04PM (#31531193)

People define "rural" vastly differently - most "rural" areas in the USA are actually peppered with small towns (between 10 and 10k residents) which can be covered by high speed internet and even effective public transportation if desired - in a small enough town that can just be a guy with a van hired by the township.

All you're really missing then is the connection to the nearest urban center - if it takes an hour to drive into town it's not much different than taking an hour to drive across town, after all.

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Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla... by coding123 on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:35PM (#31531534)

Rural for me is 10 acre plots - can't see your neighbor too much.

Rural for others is 40 acre plots. For some it's 400-1000.

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Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla... by imtringued on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:49AM (#31539924)

That is illogical. In Germany rural means a town surrounded by hundreds or thousands of hectares. What you mean is just a special kind of suburbia.

Having your houses this far apart will result in extremely high infrastructure costs.

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Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla... by coding123 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:04PM (#31543299)

What are the infrastructure costs? Roads are dirt. Internet is Starlink. Power is solar. Sewer is septic. Water is well. Garbage is a drive once a week.

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Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla... by bombcar on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:10PM (#31533601)

Heh I feel most people think of "small town America" when they think rural, which often includes almost all of the midwest outside of Chicago.

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