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Plenty of places in the US. I have family in Michigan. I checked home prices and you can still buy a house (not a condo), in a nice town with very good schools
by refurb 3y ago
Plenty of places in the US.
I have family in Michigan. I checked home prices and you can still buy a house (not a condo), in a nice town with very good schools for $200,000. With property tax, insurance and mortgage your total home expense would be ~$1,000/month, even at today's interest rates.
Plenty of jobs that pay $60,000 there, that's $7,000 per month take home if you're married with two wages earners, leaving $6,000 left over each month, or $60,000 per year.
- bombcar 3y agoYou don’t even have to be in the sticks - you can find $200k-ish places within commuting distance of lots of “kind of dying but still big” cities if you will. You will often have weather to deal with. And if you’re young and willing, buying a fixer upper is still a workable strategy - and youtube makes this actually much more workable than even 20 years ago. Sweat equity works wonders. Part of the trick is that lots of jobs are not actually IN the city - they will be to one side, so live on the side that your job is.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago> You don’t even have to be in the sticks - you can find $200k-ish places within commuting distance of lots of “kind of dying but still big” cities if you will. This is why a few cities, like Pittsburg, have seen a resurgence -- cheap housing and the benefits of an actual city.