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I think your story needs to include the specific city to be judged. Also what do you mean by urbanites? In DC, you can buy a 3 bedroom rowhouse not near downtow
by earthboundkid 7y ago
I think your story needs to include the specific city to be judged. Also what do you mean by urbanites? In DC, you can buy a 3 bedroom rowhouse not near downtown but near a subway for ~750K ~ 1M, which is basically the limit of what a two lawyer family can afford. In Baltimore, depending on how big you want your house to be and where, you can spend between 250K and 750K. I'm not as familiar with other markets.
- patorjk 7y agoThis comment reminded me of a thread I read on r/baltimore a few months back that compared 1M houses in Baltimore and DC, it was pretty striking: https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/aw9476/what_a_million_dollars_can_get_you_in_dc_vs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/aw9476/what_a_mi...
- earthboundkid 7y agoIt's a little distorted because even inside the city location changes house quality per dollar a lot. For example, I live next to a million dollar row house in Baltimore… But it's only $1m because it is split into 5 one level apartments, so you can easily rent it out and get your money back. If you were to join it into a house again, you'd lose money.