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I think there are 4 areas: - City center - Neighborhood - Suburb - Country At least that's the case here in Portland. My preference is Neighborhood or Coun

I think there are 4 areas: - City center - Neighborhood - Suburb - Country At least that's the case here in Portland. My preference is Neighborhood or Country. The problem here is that the houses in the country are almost as expensive as the ones in the city center. The houses themselves aren't extravagant either, it's mostly because they come with 10+ acres of land. Portland has great neighborhoods, but they're also drastically different from one another. A super nice house in a far east neighborhood might be $500k while the same house in a more desirable neighborhood could be $1m. Neighborhoods change quickly though, so I imagine much of the remorse from millennials is coming from moving to the suburbs, and not necessarily the less desirable neighborhoods (as they have hope those will gentrify).

LyndsySimon 8y ago
The allure of “the country”, for me, is getting way outside the cities. I technically live in a city of 14k people, but it’s the largest municipality in the county. I’m about two hours from anything that can reasonably be considered a “city”, in a quiet neighborhood where there is practically zero traffic after 8pm or so. This was the most isolated property I could find that’s still got good Internet access. Price-wise, there’s no comparison. I paid about $120k for a five bedroom house on half an acre. We were looking at townhouses in the last place we lived (Charlottesville, VA) with a tiny yard and half the living space that were going for $325k+.