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Re:A Student-Debt Bubble Fueled a Housing Bubble by bombcar on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:22AM (#37465615)
You don’t even have to be in the sticks - you can find $200k-ish places within commuting distance of lots of “kind of dying but still big” cities if you will.

You will often have weather to deal with.

And if you’re young and willing, buying a fixer upper is still a workable strategy - and youtube makes this actually much more workable than even 20 years ago. Sweat equity works wonders.

Part of the trick is that lots of jobs are not actually IN the city - they will be to one side, so live on the side that your job is.

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Re:A Student-Debt Bubble Fueled a Housing Bubble by red-iron-pine on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:05PM (#37470211)
> You don’t even have to be in the sticks - you can find $200k-ish places within commuting distance of lots of “kind of dying but still big” cities if you will.

This is why a few cities, like Pittsburg, have seen a resurgence -- cheap housing and the benefits of an actual city.

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