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Comparing median house price to median income is an instant "doesn't know how housing economy works" flag.
Those properties are all a fair bit on the large side as well, and are in extremely good quality.
The first link is a smaller home but on a large property and literally dead center of Portland on highly valuable land, so that's an instant cherry pick.
The second is absolutely a mcmansion at 3000sqft, well over double the size of a starter home which usually ranges in the ~1500 range. Substantially more than anyone needs as a starter. It's in the suburbs but a quick glance shows you basically everyone has RVs and boats parked on their properties. The house is incredibly good condition and looks newly fully renovated. Several tiers above a starter home by a large margin, it's bizarre you thought thus house supported your argument. This is literally a textbook mcmansion.
The third is insane that you thought to even link it. Clocking in at nearly 3x the size of a starter home, double car garage, also newly renovated, and fairly close to the center of Gillette as well. This is less a mcmansion and just a huge bilevel. At what point did you seriously think that this house did anything other than support my statement, clocking in at that kind of Sq ft and with that location?
This is exactly as I wrote and you've done nothing but confirm, that the "median" house prices are many tiers above a starter home and only a fool thinks these are the houses first time home buyers will be saving up for.
Next time when you wanna try and find houses that aren't affluent, maybe take the five seconds to notice the literal sailboats parked in people's driveways? It's a pretty big tell lol
That's a long response that somehow still manages to miss nearly every point previously made, plus has a hefty dallop of bullshit.
I'm forwarding your comment history to Drs. Dunning and Kruger in case they want to do a case study.
I included median income because it's interesting and at no point make or even vaguely suggested it has any significance. It's funny how you just make shit up to counter points that aren't being made.
I made this post to definitively test a theory: that you're shockingly, blatantly intellectually dishonest, someone who doesn't care about an honest conversation but who simply wants to be right at all costs, up to and including just lying. Like you did here, repeatedly.
My point was median valued homes aren't McMansions, homes that are defined by their size, ostentation, and luxury, which are none of these homes. But you don't care, you just want to be right, so you lie and use your own personal definition of a McMansion, which is apparently "big and/or nice house maybe with boat", like watercraft ownership has any bearing on the type of home. I live in a 1300 square foot home and own a $95k 5th wheel. I guess I live in a McMansion too! You even move my goalposts for me by pretending my comment was about something it was not, that I was somehow claiming a median valued home was a "starter home". It's easy to refute evidence when you pretend the thesis is something that it's not, but it makes you a liar.
So now we have, for all to see, clear evidence that talking with you is an absolute waste of time. Thank you for that. Easiest block I've made all year. Feel free to have the last word.
I think we all know this already. We're poking the bear because it's fun to watch him dive past points being made and scramble to fabricate data so he can 'win' every argument.