You're right, but for the wrong reasons. Aesthetics has always trumped economics when it comes to housing, and the speculators know this. The probability that t

You're right, but for the wrong reasons. Aesthetics has always trumped economics when it comes to housing, and the speculators know this. The probability that this will change anytime soon is essentially zero. You're better off moving somewhere where they haven't fucked it up. I'd like to suggest Houston here, but there are still HOAs and similar stuff there.