Here are over 200 listings in Warren MI (a middle class suburb of Detroit) with houses for sale under $200k - https://www.zillow.com/homes/Warren,-MI_rb/ https:

Here are over 200 listings in Warren MI (a middle class suburb of Detroit) with houses for sale under $200k - https://www.zillow.com/homes/Warren,-MI_rb/ https://www.zillow.com/homes/Warren,-MI_rb/. That's just one suburb, there are many others in this Metro Detroit are of 4.5 million people. Check the same thing in Metro areas surrounding Cleveland, Cincy, Indy, St Louis, Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, Dallas etc etc.. People in the handful of highest priced cities are so divorced from reality it's concerning. This is a huge country with a ton of multi-million population metro areas.