>Suburban hellscapes where you have to drive 40 minutes to buy groceries are cheap
These so called "hellscapes" are no longer cheap. Waves of people are fleeing the cities to these "hellscapes."
These so called "hellscapes" are no longer cheap. Waves of people are fleeing the cities to these "hellscapes."
http://public.kulak.us/screenshots/2023-11-14-150246.png
and here's central Portland:
http://public.kulak.us/screenshots/2023-11-14-150343.png
Those may be expensive houses in the first image, but I guarantee cost per square foot is an order of magnitude cheaper. If waves of folks want the first image, more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.
I guarantee they're not. Portland average house price is $500k [0]. Your example of Katy, TX is $365k [1]. Not even close to an order of magnitude.
>If waves of folks want the first image, more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.
If waves of folks want this image [2], more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.
[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/30772/OR/Portland/housing-market
[1] https://www.redfin.com/city/9764/TX/Katy/housing-market
[2] https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/portla... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...