Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year

Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year by ghaff on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:28PM (#32572434)

Well, it's a typical more rural New England town. There is zero public transit of any sort. Essentially no businesses in town except barely when they merge with an adjacent small old mill city. So even in the town center where there are some sidewalks basically nowhere to walk to other than the library or post office. About 7K population total.

About an hour drive from a major city.

Though not that different really from small English countryside towns I've walked through.

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Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year by ethbr0 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:37PM (#32573063)

That's one thing that fascinated me about CT when I was up there.

It seemed bizarre that even "one strip mall" towns didn't have certain categories of business. Down in the south, you can't measure a mile without hitting two serviceable Tex-Mex restaurants.

Up north? The nearest Tex-Mex is often 30 minutes away, and the nearest pizza place (which often isn't great) is 20 minutes.

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Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year by ghaff on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @08:06PM (#32573323)

I'm not sure how much decent Tex-Mex I've seen in the Northeast generally. I do have a few decent pizza places around where I live west of Boston. But generally speaking I find I'm on my own with respect to food. Which is a reasonable tradeoff I make.

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