yup. my area a "starter house" is 150k, and a trailer park house is 50k minimum with lot fees that are as expensive as owning and maintaining a real house. that "starter house" is often in a brown area or needs thousands of hours of work done to it, basically if it has walls and running water it's gonna cost 100k. to be a real move-in-ready house you're looking at 200k. that's just not viable for the average person.  also almost all of the cheap houses are boomer shitshacks they let fall apart that need a massive amount of repairs. the absolute quality of houses have dropped an extreme amount, and it's not about building materials or techniques, but about how people have consistently failed to maintain their houses. good luck buying a house now without some huge problem that will cost you 10's of thousands, the boomer selling it just wants to get out from under it so he doesn't have to fix it up.
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