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The cost difference, if anything, has narrowed since the start of the pandemic.

• lastofthemojito 4y ago
  That's what I've seen anecdotally too. Not on the west coast, but in a major metro area on the east coast that has traditionally been seen as "expensive". I'd occasionally get sucked down Zillow rabbit-holes where I'd look at cheaper areas in the middle of the country and daydream about the palace I could buy for the price of my modest house here. But these days, the enormous differential doesn't seem to be there. I certainly won't say the middle America prices have caught the coasts, but they've grown at higher rates so that the difference isn't what it used to be.