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Where do you live that a decent 4br/2ba goes for 200k? I’m in the Midwest and that’s at least 100-150k lower than I’d expect in an urban area (rural communities
by germinalphrase 8y ago
Where do you live that a decent 4br/2ba goes for 200k? I’m in the Midwest and that’s at least 100-150k lower than I’d expect in an urban area (rural communities, sure - but not the city).
- weber111 8y agoMy sister is in Tulsa and has a _very_ nice 4+2 (or maybe 3+2, idr, but it's a well-built, big house on an acre); it cost her $250k. Where I live (central Illinois, 200000 person metro area), prices are even lower.
- germinalphrase 8y agoMy reference is Madison/Minneapolis where I’d respectively price a decent 3br at 250/350 in cheaper areas.
- tomkinstinch 8y agoRochester and Buffalo are this affordable, and have the added benefit of being in New York State.
- driverdan 8y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm. Being in NY is a negative, not a positive. NY has some of the highest taxes in the country and much of the money gets funneled to NYC.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoThey're affordable because not many people want to deal with 10 feet of snow every year (unless there are nice big mountains nearby, which NY state does not).
- jimso 8y agoI bought my 3 bedroom 1.5 bath house in Richmond, Va for 250k and it takes me 7 minutes to bike to work. I could have gotten a place in a less desirable part of the city for even cheaper. It is a pretty bike friendly city.
- tigershark 8y agoAre you seriously comparing a big village of 200k people with the almost 4M people of Berlin?
- jimso 8y agoI’m in the "Midwest" and that’s at least 100-150k lower than I’d expect in an urban area. The parent was not talking about Berlin, but about affordable housing in an urban environment. I would hardly classify Richmond as even a mid sized city despite the fact it's metropolitan area population is over 1 million, but it is definitely urban. I can walk to anything I need and like I said, bike to work. I mean it is the capital of a state so not exactly a "village"...
- Spooky23 8y agoI think the point that is missed isn’t that Richmond is “better” than Berlin, but that among the thousands of cities and towns in the United States, some of them offer most or all of the amenities that are being discussed at a reasonable cost! I doubt there is anyplace on the planet that fully meets the HN-Platonic ideal of a magical land with no cars, cheap rent in exclusively brand new or prewar mid-rise building, and bountiful jobs at hundreds of tech companies.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>Where do you live that a decent 4br/2ba goes for 200k Ask a bunch of middle managers in a downtown office what they would consider too far of a commute for their current job. Housing prices will fall off a cliff somewhere between the median response and the max response.