Mr._Graybeard
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This thread suggests to me that, outside of the coasts, housing prices are really pretty consistent.
NW Alabama-:3 bedrooms, 3 full baths and 2620 square feet upstairs. 9-10 foot ceilings and a oversized double car garage. Basement is another 2620 square feet with 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths and another double car garage. Man cave is 26' X 47' with 10 ft.ceilings and trimmed out like upstairs. $298k. Taxes are about $1700.
Houses on the street are up to 10,500 square feet and lots are 150' X 220'.
I may have to move to AL.
My place is 3bd/1ba and only costs $110,000 but I pay $2300 in taxes.
Alabama's sales tax averages 8% between state and local levies. Wisconsin is at 5.5% in most of the state.
That's 'cause their sports teams are losers and the weather sucks ..
Jobs and salaries drive home prices. .
If you don't need to find work, there are many decent places to live in the interior portions of the country where you can live comfortably for a lot less $$.
I'm not from Illinois, but IIRC, the Cubs won the World Series about two years ago. Compare that to many teams which can't even break 500.
Uh, yeah, the Cubs won the WS - once in a century. Gonna be a long wait 'til the next one ...I'm not from Illinois, but IIRC, the Cubs won the World Series about two years ago. Compare that to many teams which can't even break 500.
Last century. Doesn't count.And I think that the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup 3 of the last 7 years. I remember a guy named Jordan too and a pretty good basketball team but maybe that is too long ago to qualify. (No mention of Da Bears! as 30 years is quite a while although they did lose in the Super Bowl in 2007.)
I'm equal opportunity, and poke fun at everyone's team.And I know nothing better than poking fun at someone else's teams!
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sa...98,-76.441498,41.730842,-77.475586_rect/9_zm/
Rural Upstate NY, Finger Lakes Region (but not on a lake)...I think you could squeeze in a tomato plant, some zucchini,and a few rows of corn,
Keep in mind the building codes in the Northeast are far more costly for good reason. Snow loads, a full basement due to frost and severe weather impact the costs.
It would cost right around a million dollars for a an older, 3 bedroom detached house here - Bay Area suburb.
That's 'cause their sports teams are losers and the weather sucks ..
In my zip code, in an inner suburb of New Orleans, asking prices right now for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath one story SFH on a small lot with enough room to grow a few tomato plants are between $245K-$525K.Care to share what a 3 bedroom, 2 bath rancher with enough room for a couple tomato plants cost in your neck of the woods?
As for the ongoing debate about Chicago, there is only ONE thing to know. Who cares about sports (not me, anyway). Chicago is the home of the Museum of Science and Industry, the most wonderful, fabulous, mind-boggling museum I ever saw (from what I now remember from my visit in 1956, anyway). That says it all.