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Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by wharvle on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:01PM (#38702324)
There are tons of awesome 3k sqft houses for under $300k—plus smaller, cheaper ones—all over the US.

They’re in shrinking rural towns and small cities. The schools are bad and there’s no economy to speak of.

… but they’re better than some imagined frontier. Yet nobody’s moving there. Which suggests a lack of places to escape to cheaply may not be the problem.

Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by hedgehog on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:08PM (#38702448)
Or "cheap" is defined by more than the cost of a house. Usually lack of local economy and jobs is the reason those towns are shrinking.
Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by wharvle on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:09PM (#38702472)
Yes, but that’s the same problem as uninhabited “frontier” except less bad. Nobody’s taking advantage of it, regardless. Therefore…