All across this great land of America– incredibly fabulous properties, pieces of crap, great bargains, rip offs, beauty and ugliness, serious and whimsical … that, and more, it’s all here folks!
I don’t want to argue the median home prices. They’re all over the place depending on the web site. For example, the national median price is anywhere from $285k to $369k. So, I just averaged out the low-high value. As such I’m going with $328,000 as the National Median Home Price. I also average out the median price for each state.
There are two photos per state. The top photo in BLUE is the the STATE median home value. The bottom photo in RED is the NATIONAL median home value ($328,000 for every state). There is a $2,000 plus and minus leeway on the searched for prices on both pictures for each state.
To reiterate clearly for the occasional moran who stops by … the prices shown in bold colored large font are NOT the actual prices of the homes — they are either the state or national median values. The actual price of the home will usually be within +/- $3,000 of the median value. (Click on the link to get the exact price, and other house details, if you are interested.)
Other search criteria;
— when possible, cities with a population between 75,000 – 200,000
— attempt will be made to search for properties in the same city for both state photos
— the city name will be shown as a link — clicking the link also opens a new tab to that specific listing on Zillow. The other information shown on that line is; square footage, annual taxes, and year built.
— 1,250 square feet minimum, no maximum
— houses only (no condos, town homes, etc.)
— no foreclosures or auctions
— where there are multiple properties for me to choose, I will usually select what has the nicest “curb appeal”. Yes, I know this is highly subjective. Other times I will select homes that I believe best reflect the state (for example, a log cabin for Kentucky, or a torched home in Seattle).
— there may be minor un-noted exceptions to any of the above criteria … but, the major exceptions will be noted. There were no other search criteria (no. of bedrooms, basement, baths, etc.)
This took a really long time to put together so please comment — even Bible verses and Rapture posts will be welcomed. My hope is that we can get this to 57 comments (one for each state).
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Alabama: $148,000
(Decatur) 1871 sq ft / $600 / unknown
Alabama: $328,000
Athens 2236 sqft / $1,300 + $705 HOA / 2004
Alaska: $297,111
Eagle River / 2696 sqft / $3,972 / 1996
Alaska: $328,000
Eagle River 1570 sqft / $4,380 / 1987
Arizona: $283,623
Tucson 1990 sqft / $2,421 + $180 HOA / 2005
Arizona: $328,000
Marana 1771 sqft / $1,641 / 2007
Arkansas: $131,837
Clarksville (pop. 9,000) 3019 sqft / $1,454 / 1935 …. ($139,900)
arkansas: $328,000
Clarksville 3360 sqft / $2,241 / 1990
California: $579,332
Oak Hills 2,957 sqft / $5,141 / 2004
California: $328,000
Hesperia 1941 sqft / $2,844 / 1959
California Bonus Picture #1
Atherton, according to one web site, is the most expensive town to buy a home in all of America. There are currently 27 listings on Zillow. Only one home (below) is under $5 Million.
Atherton 2816 sqft / $24,668 / 1920 ($4 million dollars)
California Bonus Picture #2
Got a cool million bucks to spend on a house? Then San Jose is the place for you. 338 listings …. 287 homes over $1M.
San Jose 1140 sqft / $1,911 / 1953 (A real STEAL at only $1,299,00 …. and NO lawn to mow!!)
Colorado: $412,819
Loveland (pop. 77,000) 1260 sqft / $1,027 / 1985
Colorado: $328,000
Greeley 1360 sqft / $1,490 / 1939 (There were no homes for $328k in a 20 miles radius of Loveland)
Connecticut: $262,600
New-Haven 1697 sqft / $4,696 / 1940
Connecticut: $328,000
Killingworth 3,303 sqft / $6,670 / 1986 …. (pop. 6400, 22 mi to new Haven, only house available at national median price)
Delaware: $262,667
(Delaware’s largest city is Wilmington, 71,000)
Newark (pop. 33,000) 1625 sqft / $2,021 / 1969
Delaware: $328,000
Wilmington 1300 sqft / $1,723 / 1915
Delaware bonus picture:
joe biden’s next home! —- delaware state hospital for the mentally ill
Florida: $254,607
Boca-Raton 2002 sqft / $1,565 + $4,428 HOA / 1982 (Asking price $267,500)
Florida: $328,000
Boynton-Beach 1464 sqft / $2,735 + $2,532 HOA/ 1989
Georgia: $208,833
Savannah 1484 sqft / $1,560 / 1995
Georgia: $328,000
Savannah 3250 sqft / $2,912 / 2007
Hawaii: $646,733
Wailuku (Maui) 1565 sqft / N/A / 1956
Hawaii: $328,000
Captain-Cook (Big Island) 1345 sq ft / N/A / 2007
This is one of only two homes on all the Hawaiian Islands available at the national median price.
Idaho: $303,606
White Bird (pop. 91) 2780sqft / $912 / 1915
I ignored the population criteria because I wanted something in Northern Idaho. This nostalgic property COULD become “Quinn’s Fat Weeners”!, it even comes with a couple trailers. Living quarters on 2nd floor. $295k.
Idaho: $328,000
Cataldo (pop. 1,228) 2450 sqft / $19 / 1920
Another business-home combo. Friggen gorgeous views and across from a lake. $340k.
Illinois: $204,872
Marion (pop. 18,000) 2216 sqft / $2,338 / 1982
Ignored population criteria to go as far south as possible …. to get as far away from Chicago as possible. $215k.
Illinois: $328,000
Marion 3169 sqft / $6,214 / 1994 ($310,000)
Indiana: $161,106
Bloomington 1324 sq ft / $691 / 1982 ($185,000)
Hometown of the INDIANA HOOSIERS — the last unbeaten NCAA Div. I basketball team.
Indiana: $328,000
Bloomington 2409 sqft / $1,429 / 1993
Indiana bonus picture!
There are 246 homes on Zillow for homes built in Indiana between 1800 – 1899! You can buy this charming and immaculate (exterior and interior) Queen Anne Victorian built in 1879 for only $380k. 3849 sqft. Evansville
Iowa: $155,781
Cedar Rapids 1433 sqft / $2,635 / 1959
Iowa: $328,000
Cedar Rapids 2774 sqft / $4,542 / 2001
Kansas: $154,531
Kansas is in the middle of America. Wanted to get a feel for what it’s like to live in the middle of friggin nowhere, so population criteria was ignored.
Kensington (pop. 488) 1400 sqft / N/A / 1920
Kansas: $328,000
Leavenworth 4576 sqft / $4,429 / 1991 ($340,000)
Kentucky: $150,918
Kentucky only has 2 large cities; Louisville (618k) and Lexington (320k). Both those cities suck. The third largest city is Bowling Green (67k). It sucks also. And it gets smaller real fast from there. Kentucky is a state with many small quaint and rustic towns so, that’s what I chose.
Mayfield (pop, 9,867) 2,679 sqft / $104 / unknown
Kentucky: $328,000
Harrodsburg (pop. 8,418) 4,830 sqft / $3,623 / 1835
Kentucky bonus picture
Our esteemed Bea Lever’s (BL) ol’ Kentucky homestead. It’s small, but very cozy and welcoming. Here he is — younger looking than I imagined — getting ready to post some crap on TBP.
Louisiana: $171,485
I wanted something in Bayou country … including some mold or slime on the siding or roof. Bastrop is a half hour drive to Monroe, Louisiana’s 9th largest city.
Bastrop (pop. 9000) 2215 sqft / $1,032 / 2001
Louisiana: $328,000
A genuine Plantation House! Haughton is just minutes from Shreveport. It also includes a guest house (shown) in the back of the property for your friends and relatives who took the Covid “vaccine”.
Haughton (pop. 3,340) 6875 sqft / N/A / 1900
Maine: $253,914
The largest city in Maine is Portland, 66k.
Augusta (pop. 9k) 1529 sqft / $2,792 / 2005
Maine: $328,000
Augusta 2240 sqft / $1,556 / 1991
Maryland: $317,033
Maryland’s Top 15 population centers are a stone’s throw away from the shitholes of Baltimore and D.C. Screw that. Lusby is on the southern tip hugging the Chesapeake Bay.
The national median price ($328,000) is very close to the state median price. No price comparison needed.
Lusby (pop. 1800) 1796 sq ft / $2,250 / 1995
Massachusetts: (drop dead!!)
I hate MA even more than Noo Joisey. More evil politicians have come from there than any other state. Hello Kennedy family! Their elitist snowflake Ivy League schools are destroying America. The population is 7,029,917. Of that number, 7,029,010 are Flaming Libtards. The 10 who are not Libtards are over 100 years old and live in a nursing home. I am NOT giving them one photo pixel of digital ink … screw MA!! I would rather abide in the 7th Circle of Hell than in that cesspool. FYI … the state median price is $439k.
Michigan: $180,404
Kent City (pop. 1,080, just north of grand Rapids) 1576 sqft / $1,888 / 1900
Michigan: $328,000
Wyoming (pop. 75k, suburb of Grand Rapids) 1800 sqft / $3,223 / 1996
Minnesota: $266,887
Saint Paul 1500 sqft / $3,587 / 1885
Minnesota: $328,000
Saint Paul 3580 sqft / $4,251 / 1893
Mississippi: $126,511
Jackson (166k) is the only city with over 100k population. The house below is an absolute steal!! Needs a little fixin’, that’s all. If I were a realtor I would call this a “fixer upper” or “handyman’s special“.
Southaven (pop. 54k) 3100 sqft / $2,296 / 2003
Mississippi: $328,000
Biloxi 3100 sqft / $2,208 / 2017
Missouri: $167,700
I feel obligated to include at least one Shit Hole city!
Saint Louis 1734 sqft / $1,438 / 1903
Missouri: $328,000
Saint Louis 4754 sqft / $5,203 / 1870 (Sold for $328,060)
Montana: $293,685
Montana only has one city with a population greater than 100k — Billings, 110k. Anaconda, population 9,106 is in the western mountains near Idaho, in the middle of nowhere. In other words …. God’s Country!
Anaconda 2587 sqft / $1,742 / 1993
Montana: $328,000
First Rapture! Church of Troy, future Group Home for “Grace Country Pastor“, “Eyes Wide Shut“, and other Burning Platform believers in the Great Snatch … if only someone would start a GoFundMe campaign.
Troy (pop. 666) 5926 sqft / 10% tithe / 1910
Nebraska: $180,397
Lincoln 2048 sqft / $2,692 / 1915
Nebraska: $328,000
Lincoln 1776 sqft / $4,425 / 1998
Nevada: $311,018
Las Vegas 1387 sqft / $1,071 / 2007
Nevada: $328,000
Las Vegas 1528 sqft / $744 / 1942
New Hampshire: $303,875
Manchester 1785 sqft / $4,232 / 1955
New Hampshire: $328,000
Manchester 1723 sqft / $5,198 / 1959
New Jersey: $346,368
Ugly as shit … just like New Jersey!
Toms River (Jersey Shore) 1884 sqft / $3,877 / 1986
New Jersey: $328,000
The town that Stucky is stuck in! AAAARGH!!!! There are no homes for sale at the national median price. There is one home in South Plainfield under $400,00. The one below at $399,000.
South Plainfield 1500 sqft / $5,350 / 1950s
New Mexico: $214,213
Las-Cruces 2296 sqft / $991 / 1960
New Mexico: $328,000
Las Cruces 2070 sqft / $2,345 / 2001
New York: $331,459
One pic only. National & state median prices almost identical. Mountain top log cabin with a pretty nice view from the back deck. On Hudson River 65 miles north of Albany.
Warrensburg (pop.4k) 1728 sqft / $5,292 / 1992
North Carolina: $210,766
Greenville 2173 sqft / $2,140 / 1987
North Carolina: $328,000
Greenville 3357 sqft / $3239 / 1995 ($299,000)
North Dakota: $236,405
Fargo 2290 sqft / $3,850 / 1927
North Dakota: $328,000
Fargo 2312 sqft / $5,657 / 2016 (I LUV the kitchen!)
Ohio: $156,343
Why Sandusky? 1) Most bigger cities in OH suck the ugly stick.. 2) It’s right between Toledo and Cleveland. 3) On a Great Lake, 4) Cedar Point .. roller coaster heaven!!!
Sandusky (pop. 25k) 1456 sqft / $1,333 / 1940
Ohio: $328,000
Pt Clinton (across from Cedar Point) 7040 sqft / $32,988 / 1905 ………… $2,999,999 (I’m going to name-it-and-claim-it, praise Gawd!)
Oklahoma: $134,289
Norman 1458 sqft / $354 / 2000
Oklahoma: $328,000
Oklahoma City 2909 sqft / $3,687 / 1996
Oregon: $374,604
Far southern Oregon …. the goal being to get as far away from the Portland Autonomous Zone as possible.
Klamath Falls (pop. 25k) 4062 sqft / $5,162 / 1918
Oregon: $328,000
Klamath Falls 2230 sqft / $2,508 / 1946
Pennsylvania: $200,367
POCONO COUNTRY!!
Gouldsboro (pop. 849) 3558 sqft / $3,096 / 1990
Pennsylvania: $328,000
Bear Creek Township (pop. 2,749) 4508 sqft / $13,611 / unknown ….. $294,500
Rhode Island: $312,255
Providence 2423 sqft / $4,919 / 1930 ($324,000)
South Carolina: $193,491
Columbia 1850 sqft / $1,201 / 1988
South Carolina: $328,000
Columbia 2466 sqft / $1,454 / 1960
South Dakota: $217,215
Sioux-Falls 1776 sqft / $2,261 / 1963
South Dakota: $328,000
Sioux Falls 2515 sqft / $4,355 / 2003
Tennessee: $192,275
Chattanooga 1464 sqft / $806 / 1945
Tennessee: $328,000
Chattanooga 2276 sq ft / $1,388 / 2006
Texas: $213,036
There are hundreds of listing for Texas even in a narrow price range. So, I did a search “10 most beautiful places in Texas” and went with that, regardless of population and any other considerations. Alpine was mentioned in several articles … and since I was born in an Alpine country, I went with that.
Alpine 2370 sqft / $2,880 / 1920 ($234,000 … cheapest house in Alpine)
Texas: $328,000
Alpine 1540 sqft / $5,892 / 2013 …… ($479,000)
Utah: $360,044
Ogden 2200 sqft / $2,034 / 1959
Utah: $328,000
You gotta click on this to believe it. This is the ORIGINAL Gunnison City Hall! Still has jail cells with bars in the basement. Converted to a (ugly) home. 125 miles south of Salt Lake City. Those crazy Mormons!!
Gunnison (pop. 4k) 4400 sqft / ? / 1899
Vermont: $264,777
Castleton (pop. 1,276) 1889 sqft / $5,004 / 1910
Vermont: $328,000
Corinth (pop. 1,419) 4092 sqft / $5,748 / 1860
Virginia: $293,818
New-Castle (pop.153 — 25 mi north of Roanoke) 2943 sqft / $1,656 / 1898
Virginia: $328,000
Haysi (pop. 325 … middle of nowhere a couple of miles from KY) 3980 sqft / $2,052 / 1985
Washington: $431,487
Butt-fugly home …. incredible location.
Clallam Bay (pop. 497) 4400 sqft / $3,780 / 1934
Washington: $328,000
Sumas (pop. 1703 …on Canadian border) 1400 sqft / $1,947 / 1905
West Virginia: $107,064
The largest city in WV is Charleston, 45,264
West Virginia: $328,000
$325,000 for this? In West Virginia?? Does real estate pricing really ever make sense? Gimme the house in Van!!!
French Creek (pop. 3,166) 2425 sqft / $564 / 1976
Wisconsin: $206,169
Wisconsin is the midwest version of Mass-ass-chew-sets. As seen below, only 12 people live in Wisconsin … and they’re all immigrants. Screw ’em.
Wyoming: What normal people can afford … Median Price $254,753
Gillette 1836 sqft / $1,085 / 2014 …… $199,900
Wyoming: what you can buy if you’re really really special, worked hard, saved your pennies, and put god first in your life
The largest city in Wyoming has only 911 people! Call the police!! Let’s just close out this fabulous Pictorial Essay with the most prettiest house available … screw all the criteria. (Sparsely populated Wyoming has 235 listings OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!)
Ah, what the hell …. let’s just go with the second most expensive property in the state.
Jackson 16,593 sqft / $81,963 / 2009 … $33,900,000
EAT YOUR HEART OUT POOR PEOPLE!!
THE END
Haha, in Northern VA., you’d be lucky to find a burnt out studio condo for that price.
When I saw the pic I couldn’t help buy wonder how much wood rot, how many bodies in the basement, etc. Way too good a price for that big a home. We have been looking in E. Tenn and have seen plenty of great looking homes that quickly reveal their truth once you get past the front door “glamor shot” and get down to the nitty gritty. For most of these its likely the neighborhood. There are lots of beautiful homes in Bridgeport, CT where my grandmother lived. They are all crack houses, but they look nice.
If I can be of any help, I live in Fairfield Glade, TN. [email protected]
Thanks. I’ll reach out.
East Tennessee is far, far better than West TN. And better too than most of Middle Tennessee, with one lone exception. If your purchase budget allows, check out Leiper’s Fork, in Williamson County. That’s where a bunch of celebrities own property which is a major factor in high property values. The one good thing is that there is a Land Trust which keeps people from selling large plots of land to developers and whatnot. We almost bought a fixer-upper there a few years back. But if you can’t specifically move to Leiper’s Fork, then East Tennessee.
And why would I want to be anywhere near celebrities? Will check it out though. Thanks.
There are good and bad. On the bad side, you have the entire Judd clan, Ashley, Wynona and Naomi. Then, there’s Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, Justin Timberlake bought property there. Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers) lives around there. To each his own. I don’t particularly care about celebs either, but most people around Nashville aren’t even aware it’s there. Kinda like where I live now. Smallish chance of running into anyone really famous. Although there’s always a chance. The original Puckett’s grocery store is there, which is way overrated by the way, but it’s also a hangout of sorts. We loved the annual Christmas parade. I have no idea what if anything there is on the market right now and I’m fixed anyway, so…. But like I said, you’ll pay above top dollar simply because of the exclusivity. It’s not gated. Anyway, look out for your own interests. I do.
Honestly admin. Idk how or why you continue to let Stucky muck up your very nice blog with his… Crap. In the decade I’ve been lurking around this blog, Stucky hasnt contributed a SINGLE useful piece of info. Not one. He’s shits and giggles, and the court jester, making a joke of this site. Is he sucking somebody off? Something dont add up…
I thought the article was a nice diversion from the cesspool.
Yes, ADMIN!
WHY, oh why DO you let me stay here? It makes no sense!!
I have threatened to quit on a number of occasions. I’ve tried to quit. I jist can’t do it. I need an intervention.
For the love of God, man … PLEASE BAN ME!!
I think I’ll stick with my chief shit stirrer over the opinion of some anonymous douchebag.
I was thinking asswipe but douchebag is good.
bl,
are you really taking up 4 stucky after he posted you in an unguarded moment in yer outhouse?
btw,you are kinda cute–
I’m sorry, but I think “Fag” is more appropriate.
Oh right on. There goes your monthly donations for the next year. Queer.
Blow me
Stick your donations up your ass.
To Anonymous
You need to donate dckwad simply for having the ability to whine like the bitch you are.
Stucky may be a shit stirrer, but he’s OUR shit stirrer.
I think Stucky’s trying to say he can’t QUIT this website. 😉
Honestly admin. In the decade I’ve been lurking around this fantastic blog, I’ve never seen a single useful bit of info come out of Stucky. Idk why you let that joke of a person clog your blog with his blahhhg. Not one relevant or useful bit of anything has ever come out of that guy. It’s annoying having to skip past his retarded posts and jokes all the time. I understand he’s all filler and no killer, and the court jester. But man. It’s overdone. Put that old airhead back to bed and maybe change his diaper- all his shit stinks, and it makes your blog look bad. Is Stucky sucking somebody off? Shit dont add up…
Replying to my own comment. Stucky should change his handle to SUCKY lol. Go back to your dumpster and start a fire with your garbage you lame ass wack ass bumfuk
Looks like Stucky has you all stirred up. Hopefully you can figure out what that makes you!!
Hey Stucky? Wasn’t the posted property in Sandusky formerly in your family’s possession? You posted a pic once, and sure seems like the same one.
LOL. I wish! My parents owned one and only one home, here in South Plainfield ,,, very much like the pic I posted under NJ, It seems like EVERY damned house in this town is one carbon copy of about 3 or 4 styles. Half the town was built after WWII, the Greatest Gen buying homes for the Baby Boomer chil’un.
Great presentation. The Lincoln NE house reminded me of my Paternal GFs. He was German Merchant Marine and along with 3 others jumped ship prior to WWI and went from being a poor Kraut to poor American. But he made a good choice. Jackson Wyoming is missing a zero in the price.
You’re the Man. A lot of effort, because you love TBP. 🙂
Thank you so much. I do so love TBP …. and by that I mean the people, people like you ….. even though from time-to-time I’m a grouchy, cuss-spewing, fucken asshole. Really, I know this is true.
Looking up populations, Mapquest for distances, duckduckgo for a tidbit of interesting info, googlemaps to show where a city is relative to the state. and probably scanning through thousands of pictures on Zillow …. I didn’t log my time but, I think it easily took me 50 hours.
Grouchy is A ok considering. 50 hours!! Appreciate your work.
From time to time?
A labor of love indeed. What kept running through my head was how do ordinary folk afford some of these places? You listed some mobile homes, and around here, that’s what the ordinary folk afford and those aren’t as cheap as they used to be. A 3/2 singlewide used to cost 20k and now they are 60k.
I’m ever so glad I got what I got before the great Texas invasion commenced. Just dirt, like a flat nothing corn ten acre corn field starts at 200k.
Late to this one…but I’ll hold the bird shit on your first cup of Pine Needle Tea Plainfield!
Lived in MA 36 of my 37 years and I completely agree with your hatred of this place.
Thing is … when we express our loathing of our respective states, I think people often think “Oh, he is just exaggerating”.
NO, WE ARE NOT !!!
I was a longtime Masshole and I really would have liked to which city/town you went with. I’ve been in so many homes and neighborhoods in MA that I may have even recognized the place.
Edit: I forgot about the fact you’re shooting for homes close to the medians. Tough to do, at least in Eastern MA. Maybe REP can weigh in to tell us where the 328K homes are in MA.
I grew up and lived in NYC for 50 years before moving not far from HS Farmer. There aren’t enough bad words in the English language to describe NY.
Re Massachusetts: though there are numerous pretentious dingbat colleges and universities in The Commonwealth, there is only one ‘Ivy League’ (aka ‘Ancient Eight’) school there: the Big H itself.
FWIW, if the entire Harvard site were nuked from orbit, the world would be a better place. Net-net, that is.
Ah, good catch. I thought MA had two Ivies … I was thinking Yale as the other. But, I just searched and saw it’s in CT … which is damned close in status to MA, in my eyes.
Connecticut has the advantage of being closer to New York City.
(ha, ha, ha)
Agreed. Spent 14 years there in the 90’s and early 2000’s before moving back to Maine. Maine was originally part of MA until it seceded in 1820. As of late, it appears MA is making a good effort at reclaiming it. The amount of moonbattery I see in Maine is increasing at an exponential rate.
Clueless Joe’s future home….if there is any justice in the world (and we know there isn’t):
Moar likely some of us…if we live…than anyone associated w/ the OnePartyState. Just sayin
That picture looks like what they plan to do with those refusing the Vax.
Stucky- That was some funny material and very entertaining. I don’t like to flaunt my wealth but you forgot to add that the photo of me in my Old Kentucky home is actually in the ESTATE SECTION of my hood. There are smaller homes but I have had my share of success in life. 🙂
Thank you for another fun pictorial essay, fantastic.
haha Luv ya, BL. You’re a good sport.
Do you know Elmer?
I would LOVE to have a neighbor like Elmer.
A real gem. No sarc what so ever!!!
I have an “Elmer.” His name is Larry, but he has a speech impediment so it sounds like “Layee.”
This is Larry in his living room showing me the hatched eggs in his incubator.
Larry is 68. His mother passed away 8 years ago. He has a drivers license to drive 25 miles for farm purposes.
I buy my rabbit breeding stock from Larry. People in the community know him and take care of him. Last year, I persuaded him to take on a contract with me for delivery of 4 to 5 dozen dressed rabbits the first week of September. That’s a lot of money for a guy here in the hills who relies on his disability check and what he can make from his livestock.
Think about that.
Bless ye heart.
Well done Sir Stucky…Colorado is ugly when it comes to Real Estate prices. Only good thing for me is I’m moving to Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota or South East Wyoming at the Polar Opposite end of Jackson Hole. Even paying of my Mortgage on the current abode I get to upgrade with some acreage. That Quinn’s Fat Weeners in Idaho sounds like a bad biker bar.
Thanks, Doc.
There were two states that were mostly “MEH” homes, imho … boring look-alikes with little character or uniqueness …. Colorado and South Dakota.
I know Colorado has spectacular homes. They’re mostly all Big Bucks …. like, anything with a lovely view. I am talking about homes in the very narrow search range of the two median prices.
Yep the Metro Denver middle class suburbs are all look alike cracker boxes.
Very overpriced Cracker Boxes.
Not to mention metro Denver is a literal shithole. As in, they allow public defecation.
Median price is only part of Colorado price. Almost all new developments have a metro district fee (developers pass infrastructure cost to buyers). Per recent Denver post story it can increase and lasts 4 ever. My son’s home in Thornton has a fee that effectively doubles his property tax. Hidden is the fine print is Thornton cannot guarantee potable water.
The water issue in Colorado is huge. Most of the front range cities and towns are maxed out for growth because of lack of water. Liquid gold and with the increased severity of the drought in the west things are going to get really interesting. There’ll be Supreme Court Litigation in the not to distant future over the Colorado River Compact.
That would explain some things I saw.
Bought our house in Parker in Dec. 2012, just as price were bouncing off the bottom….almost doubled in value since then. Of course, I can’t sell because what the hell would I buy? Rent an apartment, buy a shack or commute from Walsenburg. (3 hours south, for you non-Coloradans.)
3 hours…That’s if they can keep the highway open, ala Glenwood Canyon.
I didn’t know what to expect about Jackson Hole, but I was immediately glad we were just passing through it.
One thing, of many, I learned while doing this …
… I always thought Jackson Hole was an actual town. Please don’t laugh … I’m from Noo Joisey. Turns out Jackson is a town (like Aspen and other places), and Jackson Hole refers to the entire valley.
Never too old to learn something new!
Not sure how current this clip is, but it appears there has been plenty shenanigans in the title deeds of the US property market. All comes down to greed , corruption and fraud and some owners may be in for a rude shock –
I guarantee that if you scratch the surface of some of these homes that look “too good to be true” (I’m thinking of the one in VA in the boonies), you probably come up with plenty of issues. And as I preemptively critiqued yesterday regarding this, the choice of cities makes all the difference. Being formerly of CA, I found the Hesperia house to be a major shocker. Hesperia is a shithole, a million miles from anywhere. I think their major industry is meth manufacturing. Despicable that a house like that could cost that much. My wife and I are probably the only people in the history of CA to have lost money on a home (location, location, location).
Interesting to see. You need to get a hobby. LOL
I lived in one of the (6) apartments of this circa 1890 mansion for 3 years to the day.
I knew the owners very well. They bought the house for under $100k some 40 years ago. Restoration started from day one …. and continued for 40 years. They sold it last year for something like $1.2 million … and barely broke even, if at all, for they invested about $1 million bucks making it spectacular inside and out.
Indeed, the pictures are stunning … looks PERFECT in every conceivable way … no “wood rot” there!
BUT … here’s the thing, and the reason for my telling this story …….. If you buy a hundred year old house, you WILL be fixing shit FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!! I’ve seen it with my own eyes for 1,095 consecutive days. Maybe it eventually gets down to just small-stuff but, believe me ….. it is a never ending battle keeping up with the second law of thermodynamics.
DON’T FALL FOR THE GLAMOR! DON’T BUY IT!!
Shit if you buy a sixty year old house (the age of my Dad’s house) you’ll be fixing shit for the rest of your life. I have a second full time job taking care of that place.
Ours is a 1969 creation and thankfully most of it has held together well. But its not only always something, but doing it RIGHT costs a hell of a lot more than doing the kind of half-assed jobs that previous owners have done.
Amen! Do it right one time or do it half assed x???.
This was the one I meant, but indeed you are right.
That house reminds me of a place I used to deliver to in Tennessee as a former UPS driver.
I did buy a hundred year old House. In MA. Well it was 78 when I bought it and 110 when I sold it. It did require a lot of upkeep and especially creativity to get it to the standards of 1990’s homes. We just kept throwing $$$ at it. Which was fine as we sold it for 10X what we paid.
Thanks for that testimony. But, I am sure my wife wouldn’t have let me make that mistake.
ANY house will have you spending your time and money keeping it up. Hell, go live in a van and you will still have upkeep to worry about. Tents get holes too. I watched some videos of poor souls who had to live in their cars. Lots of older women in that predicament.
Hence the term Money Pit
Columbia SC??? Bad choice, but as far as southern capitals go, beats the hell out of Jackson & Montgomery. Here in Charleston, just had a 10K sq ft house on the lower end of East Bay go for $1,035/sq ft. Ouch.
I was born in Charleston, and remember when she was threadbare even on the Battery. The scary old two lane, Cooper River Bridge was the only one. There were only weathered bungalows on Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island. Our home in Mt. Pleasant, a duplex, which my father bought in the late 50’s, looks even tinier and run down now, assesses in the mid 400s. Should have bought the duplex from my Mother. Man I must be getting really old.
Fond memories of Charleston, back in the day.
Yes, you are getting pretty old!
Da! ;0
St. Louis is a shithole. I wonder if the riverwalk is still popular or is it crime ridden now too?
I love that kitchen too. I have the long island in the middle but that wraparound island is BOSS!
Stucky- Clammy and I both told you to move to the south where you can live like a king and housing is reasonable. This pictorial proves us to be correct. There were many fine offerings in the upper Northeast corridor.
You and Admin both missed the boat a decade ago when I advised to move to KY, that 1 MILLION $$$ would buy you a small town that you could name after yourself. Alas, that window has closed due to FED printing to the moon. Taxes are very low for now but three more years of Braindead Biden and we could be looking at 12k like you were on your last house.
My advice…. Go south young man (cough). A world of gentile hospitality awaits.
Move to KY? That means getting all their teeth pulled, right?
No doofus, they just fall out on their own. Merikans have better teeth than folks in Oz, even in KY.
Regarding Minnesota’s sky high property taxes: we have a convoluted property tax refund designed to soak landlords. Assuming it’s your primary residence and you make less than 6 figures, the amount you’ll actually end up paying will be somewhere between half or a third of what’s listed, depending on personal income.
Mn and Wi. are like this. I figured in the heating costs and the short life of vehicles it’s an expensive area to live in.
Interesting mix of homes, locales, and for me, conclusions. Conclusion #1 – I can still afford rural Florida and Arizona as a possible retirement location, but Texas may already be out of reach. Conclusion #2 – There is more than meets the camera’s eye with some of these offerings. Conclusion #3 – a rural property in Kansas, with a storm cellar, may be the best “when SHTF” option. Conclusion #4 – a Church in Montana? That may be the best option for upside potential. No really, look what’s happening in my end of the world (sorry can’t load on TBP but go to 1:50 of this video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L9BvzDiMp8
On California:
– Leased a 1,600 sq ft house in the redwoods north of Santa Cruz in 1995. $1,100 a month. The owner sold it for $565,000 in 2005. No land, and a shared driveway.
Leased a house in 1975 with two colleagues in Sunnyvale. We paid $550 a month, including pool and gardener services. Last time it was sold, per Zillow, it went for $2.5 million. No yard. No pool any more. And no lot to speak of.
Stucky, well done on the post.
You could have picked up this fixer upper, pop 10,500
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1951-N-Sparkman-Ave_Orange-City_FL_32763_M53178-61467#photo6
$213,000 for THAT??? MUST be the value of the land … cuz that horror show is a complete tear down. Had no idea that land in FL is so expensive.
Also, WTF is it with FL and heir goddamned HOA fees??? Seems like almost every home is in a HOA. Seems like a money making scam to me. I’ve seen some HOA dues in the six figure range … for example, if you live off some fancy schmancy golf course fairway.
Stucky- I live right on a fairway in a golf club hood. No joke, my HOA dues are less here than in my gated doomstead community. Doomsteads are not cheap if you go first class.
Wait till the end of the month, this thing was stripped down to the studs. Totally redone, it’s impressive from where it was a few months ago. It sits on two acres without HOA fees.
The 325K beauty in West “Wild and Wonderful” Virginia is a steal. Not shown is the topless bar (in the back). All drinks and lap dances are totally free in perpetuity. Da Ho works there on her weekends off when she is not visiting the border. For the ladies, Joe B is also topless and dressed as a Chippendale for your entertainment.
I’ll try something different and comment on property taxes. When we left Joisey in 2015, we were paying $7800 in property taxes. Simple middle class home. When we moved to TN we were able to retire. This gave me the time and energy to investigate where the money went. 40 cents of every property tax $$ went for “education”. Out of the 40 cents, about 34 cents went for teacher salaries and pensions. The teachers work about 9 months out of the year yet call it a yearly salary.
Pensions? I know someone who was a history teacher and became a school counselor. He retired at 57. His pension is $52,0000. He most likely will go over $1 million in payouts shortly. The gubmint isn’t stupid. It takes care of its own and will always have their allegiance.
Bought a Texas house in 2004 for $270k. Taxes were about 6500 per annum. I couldn’t afford it, or wasn’t prepared to pay that when I retired in 2013, and moved to NC. Now the Texas house is assessed at $400k with a tax bill of over $10,000 ($6,000 of that goes to the school system, which has independent taxing authority).
Although it’s hard to compare our NC mountain styled house with the typical brick and stone Texas house, our taxes are now just shy of $1300. Those two homes were similarly assessed in 2012. We were taxed out of our house in Texas. Great job conservative Texas.
As a bonus, we’re no longer paying 300 to 600 bucks in utilities, since we have a well/septic system, and a more friendly climate. July electric bill (Two zone HVAC) is $145. Our Texas bill could easily breach $300 in the Summer and approach $500 in the Winter because of cold snaps. Sorry for dumping on Texas (We did really love living in the Fort Worth area), but, our home owners and automotive insurance premiums decreased by 50%. Probably the best return on investment I ever made.
Hey, since you seem to like to take posts way off on a tangent, I’ll do the same for you.
Just saw this commercial on the local Atlanta (home of Coke) affiliate during the 5pm news broadcast:
Not sure who approved accepting the money and running the ad, but they likely won’t be working for WSB-TV much longer.
Enjoy.
Liberty- The sugar in Coke is bad enough, it’s the phosphoric acid that is deadly.
I too am shocked that was on WSB. If you live in Atlanta…MOVE. I lived there 18 years.
We’ve been in a suburb for 23 years. We’re actively looking. What was once a great neighborhood has really gone downhill ideologically.
And the sugar was fine, but it’s been high fructose corn syrup for at least 40 years. Way worse.
Liberty- I lived in Buckhead and also Cobb County. Buckhead was snooty even back in the day.
Head up I75 and follow the signs in the direction of Knoxville. But don’t go to Knoxville. Lots of other far better options.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? What does the Atlanta transit system acronym MARTA stand for?
Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. I’m sure with enough time I could come up with something more accurate.
Buzzzzzer sound, sorry. Are you sure in lived in the Atlanta area? Just messin w/ you.
Moving Africans Rapidly Thur Atlanta.
I think I have heard that before for sure. Its pretty obvious why some counties like Gwinnett didn’t want the trains at all.
MOVING AFRICANS RAPIDLY THRU ATLANTA…..
When do I get my check for 1 MILLION?
Send an email to the FED. ;0
Falcon- You can tell I lived there, I remember when Hotlanta was a wonderful place, then Amos N’ Andy Young and the rest of the high-yellers ruined the place.
true dat!
More Ass Reaming Thanks Atlanta.
Given their massive revenue loss every day, which is placed on the backs of taxpayers, that works too.
Finally watched it. Wow. That’s the most honest “commercial” ever!
We had a fellow here, AWD (He died) who really hated fatties. He must have posted a thousand pics of fatfuks … mostly women, who were hideous.
I’m not that bad. And never when it comes to children.
My mom used to rag the ever loving shit out of me. “Don’t eat that! It’s not good for you!!” Or, “Eat your string beans!!! (I hated them) They’re good for you!!” It never ended. And my parents never bought coke in the house. I could only get a Coke if we went out for pizza, or were at a picnic.
In my high school graduating class of about 425 kids …. there were MAYBE 10 -15 fat kids! And NOT ONE of them was truly obese.
Compare that to today. Ho Lee Fuk!!
I blame the parents. Where the god damn fuck are the parents??? Stupid lazy bastards … feeding their kids SHIT … not giving a damn. I hope they die and rot in hell.
Try Squatting….It’s FREE!
https://propertyclub.nyc/article/squatters-rights-in-new-york
Put some lipstick on it, spruce it up and you too can have a shiny turd in a grate nabe.
And remember:
Maybe we’ll own him for a bit until we sell him to another bidder. I hope he suffers horribly for his Satanic plans.
https://www.mainebreakingnews.com/2021/08/04/after-decades-in-woods-new-hampshire-hermit-forced-from-his-cabin/
I guess not everyplace is as friendly to squatters as NYC. But here’s the rub, how can this guy be evicted from property that technically no one can own?
Dibs!
Wyoming has several cities with populations over 50,000.
Does that mean the rest of your post is BS too?
Exactly two cities; Casper and Cheyanne. 58,000 and 65,000 respectively. For comparison, Texas has 75 cities w/ 50k or more in population!
Ya beat me to it FF
Well, son … err, Anon coward, as falcon explained, there are only two cities with > 50k population, not “several”.
Second, in the WY section I explained why I decided to post as I did.
Third, I explained in the introduction that there will deviations, some minor, and some major … and that the major ones will be highlighted.
So, in addition to being a chicken-shit Anon coward, and an ungrateful whiny snowflake fuk who can’t appreciate an interesting, informative, and fun post, … you are also massively stupid. And that ain’t no bullshit.
Glad Stuck is only grumpy from time to time.
Ok so I live in MA, am NOT a flaming Libtard by any stretch of the imagination. I live in a small, rural town (16,583) by a nice lake (Lake Chargagoggmanchargagoggchabunagungamaug, Guiness Book longest lake name).
The vast majority of folks are actually pretty conservative all along the border towns, and we know the Boston idiots call the shots and think they are wicked retahded kid.
$328,000 in my town buys:
97 Gore Rd
1428 square feet
built 1955
2 car detached
Quarter acre
Interior/exterior in fantastic shape with many recent renovations and water view.
Please do not lump us all in with the Boston/Cambridge/Brookline doofuses.
Yep, Mass is a divided state, has been forever. State is conservative outside of 128, flaming idiots inside.
No state is pure blue or pure red…and most folks can’t always relocate….and the entire nation seems to be on board the shit train headed for the cliff.
Damn, the name is bigger than the lake.
In Melbourne or Sydney you can maybe get a fifty year old double wide on 100 square yards of dirt for $1 million.
Guess that’s why you live in the outback, huh?
Well, my little doomstead is not bargain basement. Outback ain’t cheap either.
Llpoh- Land in the outback of OZ is extremely cheap and/or FREE. I can post some articles to back that up.
There is outback, and there is back of beyond. You are talking back of beyond, which is way more outback than regular old outback. If you want to live in back of beyond, well, that is probably cheap, and mostly belongs to aboriginals as it is so far more outback and desolate and sans water that Whitey hasn’t gotten around to stealing it yet.
Australia is a land about the same size as the continental US. The livable section is about 0- 100 miles in from the east coast down to South Australia, then 0-100 miles in from a section of th east coast, and a very small section of the North coast. That is it. Over 100 miles in from those areas you are in harsh territory indeed. If you want to live back of beyond, you need to be a very tough bastard indeed.
Sir Sidney Kidman ( Yes, of Nicole Kidman family) owned an area in the outback basically the size of the UK which went up for sale by the family a short while back for a MEASLY 325 million$. If that is all the gentry/nobless could get for 11 million hectares, your postage stamp would not even register on the radar. The Kidman family are the largest land owners in the world.
BL – 1) the Kidman’s are not the world’s largest landowners. Don’t be stupid, it is unbecoming. Hell, they are not even the biggest landowners in Australia. 2) Kidman is related to Sydney same way I am related to Geronimo. 3) back of beyond is cheap – really cheap per acre. Why? No water. My little postage stamp has water. Millions of gallons of it. Several acres of it, and has never been known to be dry in living memory. So, water = $. Now, it still is not worth $325 million. But per acre it is probably worth 10s of thousands times more per acre than that desert area you mention.
This is old but, yes the Kidmans were/are the largest private land owners in the world and Nicole Kidman ios related. I post this old article to show her relationship.
http://www./dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1364750/Nicole-Kidmans-family-1-worlds-largest-landowners.html
Texas has no income tx. However, a slight switcheroo changes TEXAS to TAXES – I am feeling this because my mortgage payment is $600 and my tax escrow is now $750.
My farm is much more reasonable, but even in that dirt poor county, my taxes went from $400/yr to $1200/yr once I put a tiny house on it. My son is living in that tiny house, and I was thinking of doing another. But then….taxes…
If I buy an RV, park it under a big tin roof, put a deck around 3 sides and a hot tub – I don’t pay property taxes as long as the RV registration is current. I don’t need a lot of fancy furniture, not trying to keep up with the Obamas or anything – just need a place to eat, sleep and relax.
I had to spend $6500 to remove trees and repair some crap in my house – which could have bought me a usable RV. So this is looking like it might be a good plan. And I can always hook the 4×4 up to it and leave for elsewhere…
A decent enough used RV is going for $7-10K….
Horrible the things the government “incentivizes” with their regulations and tax bullshit.
Texas will eat your lunch with property taxes. I have ag exemptions otherwise I’d be living in my van.
Taxes are nightmarish here in the Bay State. That property I mentioned earlier? $3300 per year in property taxes.
And my town is considered a bargain in comparison.
That same house, with zero differences, would be about 700-800K 30 minutes away in Shrewsbury. With double the taxes. Go another 30 minutes and land in Newton? 1-2 million with taxes easily in the 10-15K per year range.
All you gain is more liberal idiocy, more traffic, more nonsense.
Hard pass.
My neck of the woods. In USD (approx)
$525,000
2 Bed 1 Bath
858 square feet
$1,150,000
4 Bed 4 Bath
3535 square feet
Francis- I could ship in some Boxabl houses up there and make a killing up there in Canukistan.
It’s a little out of control here.
I got a kick out of Stephs comment about millionaires being douche bags in a thread a while back. Everyone here who’s paid off their home, has a bit of savings and or a small business is a millionaire. It’s the new middle class. Thanks to inflation.
Exactly. “Northern Peso” Millionaires are now just average joes in 6 Canukistan cities:
I don’t think I would enjoy your nape of the neck, nape of the woods, your piece of the woods.. Not sure I’d like it there, especially in the winter.. A bit colder than Florida…How’s Buzzard??? Best to you and your family, sir.
Buzzard is good. Just talked to him.
We’re in the same eco/weather system as Seattle here. Winters are mild. That’s why real estate is so high. Amongst other reasons.
Hope you’re staying busy down there.
This is a pleasure to read. Michigan’s was quite surpising. Expected that the median would buy a city block in the D, with cash left over. Thanks again for the break, Stucky.
An impressive post, Stuck. I appreciated the logic underlying your methodology and the presentation, overall, was informative and entertaining.
I scrolled quickly…but everything I saw was priced at 2-4-6-8 or 10 times what it was worth. Nothing is priced in reality terms. Everything is priced in terms of how much you have to cough up to keep someone else from getting it.
Just how stupid it is in Jackson
I can point to a number of so called 1,500 square foot t”affordables” in Wilson that if they were to hit the free market would fetch 2 million and sell the next day.
In this part of AZ, the Catalina foothills, the houses sell before they can even be listed….I would be very suspicious of any nice looking house that was listed like these…
As a proud Kentuckian, I’m obligated to tell you I have all my teeth and while your assessment of Louisville is correct, Lexington is a nice town. KY horse country is one of the nicest places on earth. The bourbon ain’t bad either!
Unfortunate name you got there.
That’s some dry humor right there.
What are the rules on foreign investment? After the jab clears out the shithole cities those $1500 blocks of land surely have to go up haha
*** OBSERVATIONS and CONCLUSIONS ***
I am going to offer up my own conclusions as a series of separate replies to this post. One post per observation.
I’m NOT doing this to increase the comment count. We’re already over 100. I honestly didn’t think this would even get to 57. So, thanks to all you commenters for gettin’ it done!
First, I’m doing separate posts because not many people will read a long drawn out post. Everybody reads short ones.
Second, to make it easier to vote. If someone says 10 things but you don’t agree with 3 or 4 of them (or, sometimes even just one) it can cause big headaches and sweating for the voter … you might even be diagnosed as having Covid! Also, the writer of the post is left to wonder … did they disagree with the whole post, or most, or some, or just one? None of these issues are there by isolating comments.
I’ll do this over the course of the day. I hardly have 15 uninterrupted minutes before mom wants or demands something.
First off … realtors and statistics. They must have gone to the same school as the BLS. Let’s just look at median prices. I randomly picked two states, MA and GA.
Georgia …. the claim; median price $209,000
—- 18,857 listings
—- expected no. of homes below median price … 9,428
—- ACTUAL no. of homes below median price … 3,306
——– OOPS!
Mass. …. the claim; median price $439,000
—- 5,833 listings
—- expected no. of homes below median price … 2,916
—- ACTUAL no. of homes below median price … 1,728
——– OOPS!
Then there is the curious case of my town in New Jersey. The NJ median is $347,000. There are 34 properties for sale. NOT ONE of them is below the median!
Sooooo …. when a realtor and/or a realtor organization cites you a number, any number, take it with a very large grain of salt. Alternatively, run for the hills!! Just more bullshit from a nation overflowing with bullshitters.
There are always exceptions …. like, Realestatepup.
Demanding that statistical terms actually have concrete meanings is so RACISSSSSSSSS! And median has nothing to do with what’s for sale, but government property “value” BS statistics or similar for ALL homes.
Odd, is it not, that when I call for a Bible verse …. NONE is given!! And there are hundreds of verses in the Bible about homes, houses, and property.
The silence of GCP, Eye Wide Shit, and other pounders of da Bible is deafening.
Their silence is equally deafening when Jesus is mocked … for example, last week when Anon I made that preposterous comment about Jesus not being a Jew, or that the word “Jew” didn’t even exist when Jesus walked he earth. and even worse things were said in that thread. Shhhhh … silence!!
I even gave them an opportunity to say a thing or two about the Rapture by highlighting a property in Montana …. the First Rapture! Church of Troy.
More silence.
I guess their criteria for throwing Bible verses in your faces is to do it when least expected. Like in an article about the shit shot …. “it’s the mark of the beast!!!”. lmfao Then again, surprise attacks CAN be effective, says some Chinaman in The Art of War.
I’ll bite. In all things modesty dumbass.
I live on MA and grew up here. Only Boston and Springfield (near NY boarder) area are nuts and no Repubs ever run for office. It wasn’t always this way. MA and NH used to be normal (most still are)
Just remember, the “median” price is not the average price. That is the number midway between the max and min. Average is the “mean”. The mean can be above or below the median … they are almost never the same point in the range.
I m not sure what the author means by, “average out the median price”.
Five websites give five different median prices. I add those five up, and then divide by five = average median price..
Got it.
Alpine Texas has no relevance to the metro areas where the vast majority of people live in the state.
Nice work Stuck, lotsa work. TY
The only place I’d want was the Kansas home. No neighbors.
We just got FOUR new neighbors across the road, so far each has
mostly weekend people in a travel trailers. They are calling it their
“bug out” spot if the city erupts. Two couples from Illinois/or on the border.
Two couples from Green Bay home of the Football Packers.
I am trying to be nice about it…Why the heck didn’t I buy that land up,
together with a neighbor, when we had the chance? Bummer squared.
Our township has 12 new people, now 712.
House-House-House…no thanks even it was free.
Oddly enough, the Kansas home is one of my favorites. Well … the location is. The home itself, if you click on the link, ain’t so special.
The Alaska (first one), Arizona, and Montana homes also seem quite remote and neighbor-less .
The WORST home in the bunch is that one in San Jose.
Stucky- I have spent hours today looking at places to move that would be most desirable to our kind of folks here on TBP. I HAVE the answer! Wabash, IN, small town that is 96.5% white. Perfect for you Stucky….really. You love IU basketball, you have lived in IN before….hell I WOULD MOVE to Wabash, IN.
Not sure of the median price range for houses but most things in that town are reasonably priced so guessing housing is also. AR is not for you, just give it a think about Wabash.
Wabash, eh? Laughing my big fat hiney off. I worked for a company named Wabash Magnetics. The chances are pretty good that the company is located in Wabash. No thanks, bud. They say ya can’t go back again. Zero interest in going back to IN … too many Purdue grads.
WHY do you say AR is not for me????!! What kind of crap is that?
Just trust me on that. If you are dead set on AR, spend some time there first, see if it is what you expected. I have relatives in AR, It’s very backwoodsy if you catch my drift. Northern AR is no place for a Joisey boy.
I’d much rather be around “backwoodsy ” — real people, imho — than the Libtard fuknuts that invade my space every day in this shithole.
Short of any big American shitty — Detroit, Shitcago, Baltimore, ad infinitum — ANY place will be a great improvement..
Also, I think you mistake me for some social butterfly. It’s not like I’m going to go out of my way to make friends with everybody. I’m becoming more of a loner … one or two friends will suffice. I hate most of humanity.
Stucky- Not at all my opinion. My friend that died winter of 2020 lived in northern AR. Let’s just say the people around his area would just as soon shoot you as look at you. In other words, you may never be seen again. That has nothing to do with being a social butterfly. Hopefully ….you get what I am saying.
Far Western NC, or Far N. Georgia. All those counties are sporting white demographics over 95%. Some of these counties have a higher percentage of Indians than blacks. Low populations as well. Many of these counties have almost all the city/suburban amenities you would typically like. Some of these county seat hamlets have upwards of four name brand grocery stores. I was shocked when moving here.
Falcon- NC or GA would be a good choice for Stucky. My friend that lived in N. AR was a ex-con, looked like ZZ TOP band and was tough as nails and it was a challenge for him to live in that area without having to shoot somebody.
east/nw of little rock,30-40 miles, is nice unless it has changed–
the ft smith area is nice unless it has changed–
My favorite homes here — although I would never buy one —- are the grand old mansions. The art and workmanship of these houses is pretty unique to that era, and spectacular.
This was a fun post for me to put together, and judging from the responses, a fun post for ya’ll to look at.
So, I have another idea. How about a post featuring one house per state, 5,000 sq ft minimum, and at least 100 years old. Maybe I should choose only homes built before 1900? I would have two pics per home; one exterior and one interior. I’ll even include Massachusetts this time.
UP VOTE if you’d like to see that. I’ll do it if there are 7 ups. (But, no cokes … fuck ’em).
“… a fun post for ya’ll to look at.”
ya”ll ?
are you practicing 4 when you move down here?
already here in your mind?
Yes, indeed, Tampa!
The only EastCoast in me is my fucken potty mouth, and accent. But, the rudeness, haughtiness, superiority complex, keep up with the Jones’s, rat-race materialistic lifestyle never much appealed to me. Not to mention the corruption, filth, and ever-present stench of Libtards.
I’ve always been a Southerner in my heart. Laid back is where it’s at.
My ex-wife’s uncle lived way down in southern Indiana, a stone’s throw from Kentucky … a strawberry farmer. A real hick … according to his own relatives in northern Indiana. But, I’ll tell you what ….. he was my favorite relative in the bunch! A real down to earth person. I loved going to visit him … and hated coming back.
C’mon man! Up vote he 100 year old mansion thing!
I’m guessing you are referring to the Floyd’s knobs area in southern IN Stucky. Lots of strawberry farming there. Those folks say harses and carn (horses and corn) among other other entertaining things but I just thought they were Yankees not hicks.
I am surprised (and honored) that this Pictorial is still “featured”.
We got the SEVEN up-votes for me to do a pictorial on 100+ year old mansions for every state. Yea!! (I was gonna do it even if we didn’t get to seven. heh heh)
I’ll shoot for a Sunday release. Should be doable … IF my internet stays up. It was down ALL day yesterday for some unknown reason.
Cheers, and thanks to ya’ll !
A new screen-saver automatically pops up every day on my computer. Today’s is so spectacular I have to share it. The Lofoton Islands in Norway …. never heard of it before … all I can say is WOW!
Funny coincidence…we’ve lately been a regular visitor via a Roku/YT camera located in Skarsvag Norway, way up in the North Cape. I think it’s the northernmost fishing village in the world.
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/eviction-ban-north-carolina-landlord-moratorium-rent-coronavirus
I bought a rural 1860 era farmhouse with a few acres of land 13 years ago for 85000 and made my final payoff today.
Free and clear baby!
Congrats! How much are your property taxes? Being nosey I know.
Ahhh, the government lease to stay on and keep my own property from being repo’d by our democratically elected public officials.
To answer your question 3% annual which is affordable considering my current assessment.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if they raised it 40-50% now due to the current rural housing market boom.
Got a bit more than just a chuckle from the smartass saying that Stucky doesn’t add anything to this blog. You have to admire someone still working so hard to be a troll in 2021. I hear some guys still wear mullets and perms, so to each their own, I suppose.
I’m a financial moron (or moran, if you prefer). I’m moving out of Tulsa from a 3200 square-foot home on probably the best cul-de-sac in Oklahoma (or anywhere in the northern hemisphere, frankly–I love Oklahoma). I paid $280K for it in 2015 and am now selling for $350k. Dear God. The Californians have finally found Tulsa Time. I am so sorry, Mr. Leon Russell. We’re moving to Denver for a job. $350K doesn’t even buy you a condo in Denver. And they are all apparently hyperactive, eco-faggots there too. Some of us just have to be masochists, I suppose.
At the end of the day, you just need a place to call home. A world built on forever appreciating (I think that’s what the realtor called the inflation we’re seeing in houses and other commodities) assets is not sustainable.
Nobody knows when clown world will end.
Boomer- My GS lives in Denver. Frootloops, libtards and morans living around you ruins the beauty of the area. If the COVID vaxx works to thin them out it could improve the experience and the housing cost connected with living in Denver.
call the cow doc,he recently said he’s moving out of that area–
As someone who was born and raised in Massachusetts,I have to say spot on.
Starting with when Dukakis replaced Frank Sargent as Governor on, the state entered a period of terminal decline, it had had its problems before of course, but that was when progressive insanity that has embedded in every facet of the state really started to gather momentum and took hold.