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Re:Americans need a six-figure salary to afford a new home i... by Always_Anon on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:14AM (#38228696)
>Suburban hellscapes where you have to drive 40 minutes to buy groceries are cheap

These so called "hellscapes" are no longer cheap. Waves of people are fleeing the cities to these "hellscapes."

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Re:Americans need a six-figure salary to afford a new home i... by pkulak on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @06:07PM (#38271123)
Cheap per square foot. Here's a random pin drop I did outside Houston:

http://public.kulak.us/screenshots/2023-11-14-150246.png

and here's central Portland:

http://public.kulak.us/screenshots/2023-11-14-150343.png

Those may be expensive houses in the first image, but I guarantee cost per square foot is an order of magnitude cheaper. If waves of folks want the first image, more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.

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Re:Americans need a six-figure salary to afford a new home i... by Always_Anon on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:44AM (#38375139)
>Those may be expensive houses in the first image, but I guarantee cost per square foot is an order of magnitude cheaper.

I guarantee they're not. Portland average house price is $500k [0]. Your example of Katy, TX is $365k [1]. Not even close to an order of magnitude.

>If waves of folks want the first image, more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.

If waves of folks want this image [2], more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.

[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/30772/OR/Portland/housing-market

[1] https://www.redfin.com/city/9764/TX/Katy/housing-market

[2] https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/portla... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

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