And you thought you'd compare a city (Washington D.C) to entire states? No adjustment to control for inflation?

I thought it was more to do with recreational homes (similar to what I assume is happening in Montana) but I don't know the area well.

Somehow I think more food is wasted than beer haha

Now I see why my rent has gone up by 5x in the last 25 years

The source reports total calories supplied to the community not total calories consumed by an individual.

So let’s hope Czechia pours a lot of its beer down the drain rather than drinking it all.

This is why I'm renting. I hate real estate speculators. I hate that our country allows housing to be used as an investment. I hate Jamie Diamond the predatory lender that still got all his bonuses.

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Well, I'm happy Arkansas has stayed relatively low, otherwise there's no way I'd have been able to buy a home this year! It was hard enough to afford it (in NWA) as is, so I'm lucky it wasn't worse!

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Created using excel from FAO data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBS

Their incompetency in policies even affects life expectancy:

>with an average life expectancy of about 74.6 years, which would put it 93rd in the world, right between Lithuania and Mauritius, and behind Honduras, Morocco, Tunisia and Vietnam. Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina rank only slightly better.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/04/liberal-policies-like-californias-keep-blue-state-residents-living-longer-study-finds/

The median state is Connecticut at 814%. The simple average is 918%. I am not sure what the weighted average is, but I guess it's over 1000% because of California and New York.

Yes, you are right haha. I should have started at 0% and gone up by 400% or 500%.

Well, there is a reason the price has not increased... They are incompetent.

Y axis labeling is mildly infuriating

The cumulative rate of inflation since 1975 is about 450%. So most states’ housing costs have increased more than inflation (assuming square footage has remained constant….which it probably has not)

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Well that’s sad! Arkansas is such a beautiful place. Guess it’s good that people didn’t discover that yet

I think it’s just MA rubbing off on the area, not to mention how many massholes go there after they retire

Sometimes Mississippi has it nice being at the bottom of the list

lots of viet/cambodian/laos/myanmarese women for them to take

Totally. Something has to change with higher ed, but no one really seems to know how exactly. Lots of well meaning people; not many viable ideas.

Part of the problem is one of the things that makes the US a good place to live: Our freedom and rebellious spirit. Just try telling someone they won't get a loan for recreation studies because there's no demand for it and watch the backlash. Americans won't stand for it. They'll go and spend $100k to major in recreation studies just to spite you.

Interesting and surprising to see Maine so high