No— the coasts have substantially higher property values. A cartogram scaled by population is far less dramatically distorted: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/

No— the coasts have substantially higher property values. A cartogram scaled by population is far less dramatically distorted: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0110/graphics/cartogram_3-lg.jpg http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0110/graphics/cartogram_3-l... The big cities of Texas and the Great Lakes regions barely show up on the property value map.