This morning I had so much to do. I got up extra extra early.
Btw, do you know know much info there is on Wikipedia about shipwrecks and shipwreck-diving and oceanic trenches and sand islands and icebergs and the Graveyard of the Atlantic and the social status of Titanic passengers?
3 hours later: Wow. And none of that on my to-do list.
@looseneck
Not unusual flyover country $200K house
I haven’t verified this one. Just grabbed it off google. But it seems priced about right, heavily depending on neighborhood. Move it a few miles and it could be $300K or$150K
@f00l I don’t want to get depressed and will not look. For $199k in my town, I can buy a house with the copper pipes stolen. Even the outside spigots are gone and they won’t lower the price.
@looseneck And yet, it’s still less crazy than the Bay Area. And unlike the pricing during the housing boom, folks actually have to qualify for their loans now!
@compunaut
Fort Worth and Dallas are flyover country according to right and left coast measures. We’re hardly top of this list of places a tourist from abroad would aim for.
We’re in the middle. We’re mostly not home to “glamour” industries. We’re not bounded by coastlines and geology. We don’t have the insane degree of economic concentration of media and tech and finance to drive up home prices. Our cities don’t perform so much as national or world concentrated power centers as LA, the Bay Area, and Bost-Wash and Chicago do, except in oil and gas, and those industries are spread out, not concentrated.
The cities were brand new 150 years ago instead of being many centuries old with the resulting squeeze of buildings in an older cities. We have endless prairie, so no running out of space for new suburbs. The city county and state govts are mostly ok with tearing down, building anew, and adding “toll freeways”. Most people seem to put with with driving. Most people don’t want to live in condos and townhouses and don’t have to once they can think of buying.
So housing stays relatively inexpensive compared to glamour cities and to some older cities. We’re closer to Kansas than to NYC in more ways than just driving miles.
@f00l I was prolly thinking too literally about ‘flyover’ country, tho I’m not sure everything that isn’t NYC/Boston, Chicago, or LA is considered ‘flyover’.
The big cities in TX are far larger than those of OK, KS, IA, MO, AR, KY, etc. Big airports are major hubs. Of course, there’s lots of (mostly) empty space between those cities.
Perhaps previous oil/gas and S&L crashes have kept the housing stock at lower prices
Nevermind.
/giphy purple nevermind
Meh, how much would you charge us for this?
/giphy nevermind purple
@f00l I get that for free every day
wake up on the wrong side ofm the nest this morning?
@cranky1950 I think today is going to be one of those days that I really don’t want to wake up.
@Barney
Was your waking up like this one?
/giphy purple fields
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@Barney
This morning I had so much to do. I got up extra extra early.
Btw, do you know know much info there is on Wikipedia about shipwrecks and shipwreck-diving and oceanic trenches and sand islands and icebergs and the Graveyard of the Atlantic and the social status of Titanic passengers?
3 hours later: Wow. And none of that on my to-do list.
@f00l Nope, nope, nope.
/image purple purple
Does Namenda come in purple ???
@chienfou I can’t remember…
…a house. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage, basement, fenced yard, and a fireplace for under $200k.
p.s. Not in a flood zone.
/giphy Please and thank you
@looseneck You don’t even want to know what I paid for my house. Just remember, nobody wants to live in Kansas.
@looseneck
What @Barney said. Pick a non-super-upscale of a flyover state or region and it’s pretty easy.
/image cheap house
For $200k if you pick your neighborhood (decent, but few doctors) you can get something quite nice.
@f00l That looks very much like my first house.
For $200k, you can almost own the whole state of Kansas.
@Barney
I like that house. I would totally live there if the neighborhood was ok.
@f00l Nope. The fence stops part way and no garage. Wait…is that it lying on it’s side? OK, I’ll take it.
/image liar liar pants on fire
@f00l I know. I lived in CO during the great depression of the 90s. No jobs, cheap condos, and starvation diets were all the rage.
@Barney I don’t think Kansas is bad except for the tornadoes.
@looseneck
Not unusual flyover country $200K house
I haven’t verified this one. Just grabbed it off google. But it seems priced about right, heavily depending on neighborhood. Move it a few miles and it could be $300K or$150K
@f00l I don’t want to get depressed and will not look. For $199k in my town, I can buy a house with the copper pipes stolen. Even the outside spigots are gone and they won’t lower the price.
@looseneck For $199k here … no piping, no wiring, and it’d probably be the size of a dog house.
You Only Need to Make $91,300 a Year to Afford an Average Los Angeles House
@looseneck i have no idea what the giphy picked for your house idea has to do with please, but thank you
@narfcake Median price is $450k? How the hell does anyone live there? It’s crazy, man!
@looseneck And yet, it’s still less crazy than the Bay Area. And unlike the pricing during the housing boom, folks actually have to qualify for their loans now!
@narfcake @looseneck The median price where I live is $114,700 and that has gone up a lot the last few years.
@Barney Nope, wrong. Value is $114,700, price is $142K, Hey, what’s a few dollars among friends?
@Barney According to homeinsight.com, our local median home price is $115,200
@compunaut You must live in flyover country.
@compunaut If you took that as a wage in the Bay Area, $115k/year qualifies for subsidized housing.
@looseneck houses in my area are heading to the $850k area now
@yitzrand
I can imagine a notable homeless population. Am I correct?
@f00l Yes i live in brooklyn and the prices keep going up and the percentage of homeowmers down… its quite unnerving actually
@compunaut My area is $275k but that seems awful low. Most houses seem to be over that price. Camden and Trenton must be bringing the median down.
@Barney Not exactly. Fort Worth area. But perhaps there’s a significant stock of older, smaller properties that keep the median lower.
@compunaut
Fort Worth and Dallas are flyover country according to right and left coast measures. We’re hardly top of this list of places a tourist from abroad would aim for.
We’re in the middle. We’re mostly not home to “glamour” industries. We’re not bounded by coastlines and geology. We don’t have the insane degree of economic concentration of media and tech and finance to drive up home prices. Our cities don’t perform so much as national or world concentrated power centers as LA, the Bay Area, and Bost-Wash and Chicago do, except in oil and gas, and those industries are spread out, not concentrated.
The cities were brand new 150 years ago instead of being many centuries old with the resulting squeeze of buildings in an older cities. We have endless prairie, so no running out of space for new suburbs. The city county and state govts are mostly ok with tearing down, building anew, and adding “toll freeways”. Most people seem to put with with driving. Most people don’t want to live in condos and townhouses and don’t have to once they can think of buying.
So housing stays relatively inexpensive compared to glamour cities and to some older cities. We’re closer to Kansas than to NYC in more ways than just driving miles.
@f00l I was prolly thinking too literally about ‘flyover’ country, tho I’m not sure everything that isn’t NYC/Boston, Chicago, or LA is considered ‘flyover’.
The big cities in TX are far larger than those of OK, KS, IA, MO, AR, KY, etc. Big airports are major hubs. Of course, there’s lots of (mostly) empty space between those cities.
Perhaps previous oil/gas and S&L crashes have kept the housing stock at lower prices
/youtube start wearing purple
@Shrdlu
@Barney
/image purple accordian
@Shrdlu For some reason or another, this is one of my favorite earworm songs
Ha, I never noticed that my circle picture thingy, whatever it is called, is a purple Sansa. Aww… That makes me feel so loved.