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More-Adhesiveness-54 t1_jeg8mqb wrote

I get Pgh's inexpensive by national standards, but having lived near Lansing MI for a few years, these numbers are kinda hard to believe. It's a bit more believable considering that these are entire metro areas (not cities proper -- look at the populations) and there are tons of houses further outside of Pgh proper that are really cheap, which has to be affecting this. That said, housing around Lansing still seemed way cheaper. I knew a good number of grad students there who didn't earn much buying entire houses and my rent was always a good amount lower than in Pgh (though I'm aware differences in rent ≠ differences in home values).

What was the cutoff for including metros on this list, 100k population? If so, I'm also surprised places like Cumberland MD or Decatur IL aren't on here.

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No-Ganache7168 OP t1_jeg8lzc wrote

When we first moved to morrisville 20 years ago lots of people were buying village homes for $100,000 to $200,00 and fixing them up to live in. Meanwhile businesses were starting to open on the downtown. It did not drive housing prices up that much. That didn’t happen until Covid. That’s when people realized vacation homes are basically free if you can pay mortgage and other expenses by renting them on Airbnb. Stowe became too expensive for all but the Uber rich so people started buying up morrisville properties

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