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There are tons of awesome 3k sqft houses for under $300k—plus smaller, cheaper ones—all over the US. They’re in shrinking rural towns and small cities. The sch

There are tons of awesome 3k sqft houses for under $300k—plus smaller, cheaper ones—all over the US. They’re in shrinking rural towns and small cities. The schools are bad and there’s no economy to speak of. … but they’re better than some imagined frontier. Yet nobody’s moving there. Which suggests a lack of places to escape to cheaply may not be the problem.

hedgehog 3y ago
Or "cheap" is defined by more than the cost of a house. Usually lack of local economy and jobs is the reason those towns are shrinking.
- wharvle 3y ago
  Yes, but that’s the same problem as uninhabited “frontier” except less bad. Nobody’s taking advantage of it, regardless. Therefore…