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Some non-California houses for comparisons sake: $195,000; 3,500 sq. ft. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1222-Broad-St-Grinnell-IA-50112/87060590_zpid/ htt

• heavyset_go 4y ago
  Houses can be cheaper in Rust Belt areas, but often for a reason. Sometimes that reason is that over the last ~20 years, people have been working hard to escape those areas due to stagnant or failing economies. One of your listings, for Ladysmith, Wisconsin in particular, has been dropping in population by roughly 10% each decade since 2000. Same goes for the house in Nebraska, the town it's in has been dropping in population at about the same rate since 1980. It might work out if you can do remote work for the rest of you career, but some of those listings, like a different one from Michigan, are for homes in towns with about only 1,700 people total in a 160 sq. mile area and with a per capita income of about $18,000 a year. Your options for work dwindle really fast if you lose your job after moving there.
• andsoitis 4y ago
  The first house in in zip 50112, which has a 90% higher crime rate than other cities and town in Iowa.
  • dredmorbius 4y ago
    Source? That's a highly rural ZIP Code whose principle town is home to Grinnell College. That hardly strikes me as likely to be a consistently high-crime area, most especially of violent crime.
    • andsoitis 4y ago
      City: https://www.homesnacks.com/ia/grinnell-crime/ https://www.homesnacks.com/ia/grinnell-crime/ College: https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/grinnell-college/student-life/crime/www.collegefactual.com/colleges/grinnell-college/student-life/crime/ https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/grinnell-college/stu...
      • dredmorbius 4y ago
        Your first link is returning 500 errors. The second ... shows low overall rates of crime, as of a decade ago. Grinnell has a population < 10k. There's likely some variance over years, and there may be specific years with a large number of reported incidents. There is also the possibility of changes in reporting or enforcement, or of specific events resulting in a large number of charges. Without more specific and detailed information, I'm going to call your initial claim largely unsupported. Archives of the HomeSnacks link show a larger number of aggravated assault claims for a single year. What that might be based on deserves further clarification.
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      • floxy 4y ago
        From the Homesnacks link: >According to the most recent data from the FBI, the total crime rate in Grinnell is 2,185.9 per 100,000 people. That's -6.83% lower than the national rate of 2,346.0 per 100,000 people and 9.20% higher than the Iowa total crime rate of 2,001.7 per 100,000 people. Also interesting to compare: Location | Rate --------------+----- Grinnell, IA | 2,185 U.S. Avg. | 2,346 San Francisco | 4,938 Oakland | 6,456 https://www.homesnacks.com/ca/san-francisco-crime/ https://www.homesnacks.com/ca/san-francisco-crime/ https://www.homesnacks.com/ca/oakland-crime/ https://www.homesnacks.com/ca/oakland-crime/
  • floxy 4y ago
    Here's a link for houses in Iowa between $150,000 and $250,000, with four or more bed rooms that are larger than 2,500 sq. ft.. https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/house_type/4-_beds/1.5-_baths/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-97.08678245544434%2C%22east%22%3A-90.65978050231934%2C%22south%22%3A40.514386427137545%2C%22north%22%3A43.85093156900412%7D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22days%22%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22price%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A150000%2C%22max%22%3A250000%7D%2C%22mp%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A687%2C%22max%22%3A1145%7D%2C%22beds%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A4%7D%2C%22baths%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1.5%7D%2C%22tow%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22mf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22con%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22apco%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22apa%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22manu%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22land%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22sqft%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A2500%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A8%7D https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/house_type/4-_beds/1.5...