I live on the west coast, and sometimes visit family in the Midwest. The quality and quantity of used furniture available over there is so much better. I attr

I live on the west coast, and sometimes visit family in the Midwest. The quality and quantity of used furniture available over there is so much better. I attribute this to much of California only becoming as densely populated as it is (which is to say, not) after around the 1950s. While there are families who have lived here for five or more generations, they’re by far the exception rather than the norm. The overwhelming majority of people who are here have comparatively shallow roots, didn’t bring furniture with them when they came here, and even if they have access to good furniture from elsewhere, it’s cheap and good enough to go to ikea.