anywhere in U.S. not affected by housing boom/bubble?

[fogg88]

Are there any nice cities/communities left where you can still buy a really nice house for a quarter-mil, instead of it just getting you some shitty entry-level stucco piece of crap???

 

[Cuthbert]

you can get something decent in the nashville burbs for 250.

 

[sixxtoes]

if you like small hic towns in the mid-west, then sure you can buckaroo

 

[jaybois]

Westminster, Colorado

 

[jnevin]

Not if you want to be in an area with much to offer in the way of culture, ready access to a city, decent food, etc.

 

[nycgirl]

Not if you want to be in an area with much to offer in the way of culture, ready access to a city, decent food, etc.

I rather pay more and live in something small than live in a neighborhood or city that doesn't have what is referenced above.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

simple supply and demand in terms of blue collar labour and building materials mean that anywhere with a decent economy is affected. no way am i buying a house here anytime soon...its cheaper to rent than to buy, disgustingly enough.

 

[DJ_UFO]

Are there any nice cities/communities left where you can still buy a really nice house for a quarter-mil, instead of it just getting you some shitty entry-level stucco piece of crap???

There's A LOT of places with cheap land and cheap properties. And real nice places. I'm not gonna mention all of them but for example, Ocala, FL. You can get 2 acres and build your own house for around 120,000 total (nice house, 4/3 around 3,000 sq. ft.) You just need to go out from big cities. Concrete everywhere sucks.

 

[Whiskey]

Small town Illinois maing!! A low 200K house is HUGE here. 4 maybe 5 bedroom two story

Whiskey

 

[flex229]

They say Texas and Oklahoma werent affected as badly by the bubble as many other parts of the country.