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American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'm gonna have to call bull on almost all of this, at least in my state. (The low listing times are real though.... big money buying anything they can rent out)
To get to a starter home at $250,000 my commute would be 1hr and 50 miles minimum.
350k only gets me about 45 minutes and 30 miles.
And these time estimates are on a good day, because fuck good freeway design where I live. One goes north south, one East West, and that's it. Everyone commutes on them and if you need to go anywhere in rush hours it's three times as long
Checking Zillow for my city, it's $500k minimum for a 2br an hour and a half away by car. That would also put me in the middle of a Republican area as a queer immigrant.
The "buy a house in the middle of nowhere" mentality doesn't take into account the risks and depression associated with living somewhere red as a minority.
This is genuinely one of the first counterpoint I've seen that I have to say is actually super valid.
I completely agree on this, it's a big factor to consider.
However, I will note often you see a sort of split where you have 2-3 suburbs/towns near a big city, and one of them goes blue abd the other goes red, and you can see a bit of polarizing that happens as folks switch between the two to polarize away from each other.
In my area, one smaller town just switch all it's bathrooms to gender neutral bathrooms in the public office, the other one banned rainbow flags from being flown.
So if it's a condolence, at least that sometimes happens.
I expect it depends how left/right the province/state as a whole leans. I expect this phemonina stops happening in places like texas :(
As an example, in my area the "magic sauce" for why it was so much more affordable is the same fact it's heavily populated by imfolks from India and Africa. I'd say about half the people in this corner of the city or so, and I live in a much more right leaning province (Alberta, which is the florida of canada now)
So I expect a lot of... right leaning folks hate the idea of being neighbour's with folks in this neighborhood.
Oh well, cheaper house for me, and I love my community.
I wonder to what extent some amount of "can't afford homes" culture is influenced by racists who don't count any homes that run the "risk" of having to live next door to someone who isn't white.
I partially just assume people that "dont count" affordable homes because "I don't wanna live there" are just racist at this point, or, minorities trying to avoid racists.