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A Boring Dystopia
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This.....is hard to believe. I've been looking around non-major US cities, and even some major cities, and the starter homes are around 200-500k.
That's still fucked for a starter home but a million?????? That's the average home price in Honolulu and NYC lol.
It literally sounds super fake.
I can't find a single major city without 200k to 350k homes lol
It takes like 30 seconds to check what starter homes cost in any city, yet people will believe this shit instead of just go look.
Edit: this is the "source" https://www.zillow.com/research/million-dollar-start-home-2025-35100/
Just 1 chart with literally zero further info, no published actual data of where these numbers came from, how they calculated them, how they gathered the data.
Why do people fall for empty garbage articles like this so easy. I wish we collectively called this out more.
If a person posts an article citing another article, instead of just the original article, they should get fuckin blasted for it and downvoted to hell.
Post. Original. Sources.
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.
All of them are actually apartments, 530 square feet or less. One doesn't even have a price listed.
You jest, but a literal burnt-out shell of a house on a miniscule lot was on sale several years ago for $400k.
Its a joke of a time. The social contract has collapsed.