Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone who has lived in and priced out homes in major US cities, I find this article to be accurate.

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  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    (X) Doubt

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• Aphelion@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Try looking in San Francisco, or any city in the entire Bay Area. You won’t find a 500sq ft shack for less than $800k.

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  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    3 seconds of looking and I found five houses under 500k. Two of them genuinely look pretty decent too tbh, not even rough looking homes.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All of them are actually apartments, 530 square feet or less. One doesn’t even have a price listed.

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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• chilicheeselies@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I quite kiterally cant find anything in my city for less than 900k, and they are rare

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  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What city

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    • chilicheeselies@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nunya

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      • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Then I’ll just assume they’re bullshitting. Even San Francisco has a couple houses I found listed for 500k. And no, its not an apartment, it was a detached home.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Their city

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Doesn’t sound super fake if you are looking for a place with what I think are pretty reasonable basic characteristics of comfort and security.

  House that can accommodate a small family not in a higher than average crime area, does not require fix up maintenance that those of us working long hours will never have time to do or can’t afford to have done, has been well cared for and doesn’t feel gross. I’m not talking luxury homes here, I’m just talking about something that you would at least look forward to coming home to.

  When I see all these people buying these homes, I’m just shocked at how they have either accrued so much wealth or are so comfortable with so much debt.

  It’s pretty tough out there right now.

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  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “When I eliminate all the homes that normal people would classify as a starter home, I can’t find any starter homes!”

    “Wait to buy a starter homes you are telling me I can’t live in a rich gentrified white neighborhood, I might have a black guy for a neighbour? That just won’t do!”

    “Sorry anything not within 5 blocks of a Starbucks can’t possibly count as a starter home”

    This is what people sound like when they talk about “safety” and “crime rates” and “starter homes” in the same sentence.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a weird spin mam

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re largely addressing a bunch of young, suburban white boys who have never had to live in an actual shithole.

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    approximately half of homes have to be in higher than average crime areas, if there’s nothing wrong with the home it can just be purchased and rented out by a megacorp immediately, wealth accumulates over time so that selling a house will provide about enough to buy house and have lower average monthly cost than renting.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Zillow wrote a garbage article without the data they claim to have used, which was then copied without any added value, to be linked here. I want to know, starting with their definition of a city and their definition of a starter home

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