• @SCB@lemmy.world
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    Or, God forbid, outside of a major city.

    My house is worth mid-200s (now, purchased for 140 about 8 years ago), in a very nice neighborhood. I have a pool, a literal white picket fence, and half an acre of property. My house is among the more expensive areas where I live.

    There’s an entire fucking country away from the coast buddy. Check it out. Or don’t, and only move here when the breadwinner of your family has a potentially-fatal illness and you need to live somewhere less expensive that also has top-tier medical care nearby, which is what I suggested to OP.

        • Flying Squid
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          22 years ago

          Oh, sorry, more than 3/4 million. That’s definitely totally affordable for someone moving into a new area with no job lined up.

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              02 years ago

              Where does this person get a job in this small Indiana town, by the way?

                • Flying Squid
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                  22 years ago

                  So you don’t actually know in other words. Helpful. You know jobs aren’t all interchangeable, right? They’re not going to be going from driving a bus to working on a farm for even remotely the same pay.

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                    Turns out you can drive a bus just about anywhere. My area has homes in the 100s and is hiring bus drivers right now. My friend’s husband is literally a bus driver - my kids’ bus driver, to be precise.

                    My best friend, who can’t get a good job because he’s a felon, closed on a house this week for 160k.

                    It’s weird and kind of strangely insulting that you think most people in the Midwest are fucking farmers. We aren’t.

    • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      There’s an entire fucking country away from the coast buddy. Check it out.

      I drove across the entirety of it multiple times, most people fly over it for a reason.