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The average Chicago house price is like, a quarter or a third of that. And, uh, $2-6k a month for non-mortgage expenses goes a long way?
by loeg 3y ago
The average Chicago house price is like, a quarter or a third of that. And, uh, $2-6k a month for non-mortgage expenses goes a long way?
- tempsy 3y ago3+ bedroom, detached houses are not $300k-$400k in a good area of Chicago no
- tptacek 3y agoSure they are. Pop open Redfin in Portage Park. Hell, you can get a detached 3bdr in Lincoln Square for under $400k. (Don't; buy one in Portage or Jefferson Park). This weird argument seems to come up every 3 months or so on HN; I've only started noticing recently because we spent this year buying a new house, so incongruity of the argument ("you can't get a 3bdr for $400k") leaps out at me.
- mberning 3y agoI’m not familiar with Chicago, but the only 3br showing up for me in Lincoln Square is $835k.
- tptacek 3y agoI get 3, one of them on the corner of Lincoln and Foster. (For the record: $400k isn't the budget I'd go into Lincoln Square with, and if I was buying in Lincoln Square I probably wouldn't be thinking about a detached house in the first place. But it seems you can definitely do it.)