The major office complex in the middle of things is almost ten minutes commute from the expensive townhouses and just over ten minutes commute from the cheap on

The major office complex in the middle of things is almost ten minutes commute from the expensive townhouses and just over ten minutes commute from the cheap ones. Even though it's right beside the expensive homes. So in this particular case, 5 miles is not a long way. It seemed pretty obvious to me that the difference was that the expensive ones were brand new and the cheap ones were 25 years old. But often people don't think of houses depreciating like cars.