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• baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  varies by state

  low cost area you could

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  • SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking that. Its way above the minimum wage in the UK and we bought a house a few years ago on that just fine.

    Not even that low cost of an area really, just cheaper than around London. Move away from the big cities and its much more affordable. Why would you want to live in a big city anyway with the higher air pollution? Not getting a car also helped save a lot of money, cycle everywhere instead.

    “I need to live in London because of the jobs!” - You stack shelves in Tesco, that isn’t a job worth living in London for.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Not getting a car and not living in a city is impossible in the US. Also healthcare eats the 1/3 of my income.

      We have higher wages, but correspondingly higher expenses offset it.

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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      private equity buting homes has fucked the us housing markets even in surrounding suburbs in many states

      housing prices nearly doubled from 2010 in many places

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      • SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just looked up housing sites in the US, apparently Zillow is popular. Texas is a big state and stuck my house price in as an upper limit.

        First result is fucking huge. It has more bathrooms than I have bedrooms. And its in a place I have heard of despite living on another continent. Most people 50+ miles away will have never even heard of the town I live in.

        This is what you consider to be a bad housing market?

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