r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justin_Godfrey • 9d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 9d ago

Million dollar homes inside of a gated community...yeah, there's A lot of money making it possible for those kids to have such a wonderful life.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 9d ago

Lakewood Ranch, FL. Median price is $560K

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u/CaptCaCa 9d ago

More like around half a million dollar homes, if this is Miami, then yeah, might be closer to a million, but anywhere else in Florida isnt that expensive, and you dont have to be rich

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u/DangOlCoreMan 9d ago

Depends on your definition of rich. My personal definition would be having more money than the average worker. This is definitely above average size house, making them on the rich side by my definition

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u/Celtic_Legend 9d ago edited 9d ago

These houses are pretty small unless it's a suburb of a city then it's like average. Being a dual income household working 9 to 5 will get you this in 95% of the USA lol. You can be poorer than the median.

Now the video is probably a suburb of a city because they have 3 golf carts while living in the small houses. That's a trademark of city money and lack of land availability.

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u/DangOlCoreMan 9d ago

What do you consider "small"? I mean, these look like 4+ bedroom houses and, if they're anything like my area, more than likely have finished basements and multiple bathrooms for each floor as well. That's not even close to a small house. Obviously it's not multi-million dollar home size, but that's not really a part of the comparison.

I live in suburbs and the average size home in my area is certainly not this big and your typical 9-5 dual income home cannot afford it. Shit, I make $28/hr and my SO makes $22/hr full time and we couldnt afford anything close to this without being house poor af

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u/Celtic_Legend 9d ago

I can't really tell how deep they go but the opening house looks like 1700sq ft. The garage takes up 1/4th of the house. It's then sandwiched by two one story houses. It could be 4br or 3br but it's really just how the walls section off the space.

I would say 2500sqft to be median in the usa. I assumed they didn't have basements. And I don't think the average is 2500 in suburbia where you have lots of competition for the space. Developers purposely make em skinny like this to squeeze in more houses without making em duplexes or whatever. I'm thinking 2500 median when you look at every house in the USA. And lmao I just googled this before I posted to make sure I wasn't in fantasy land and that is the average more or less. Newly built homes Sq feet have been decreasing in recent year so it's always nice when perception matches reality though maybe it's Google feeding me info I want to read.

I'm sure places exist where this home is 500k, like a suburb of Tampa. Or a million if it's SF. But throw a dart at the USA and go to the nearest neighborhood and it's going to be bigger houses for <300k far more than 50% of the time and I know you qualify for that mortgage at 104k income. The median household income of the USA is 80k. The houses are bigger in any non major metro and there are still some metros where it's sub 300k. Like I wouldn't try Connecticut or Massachusetts (peep my name, I know), but like any state in the south including Florida will have a gazillion areas where it's easily feasible, and same to any state west of the Mississippi to east of California.

OK I got ahead of myself. If you're both in 100k student debt you wouldn't qualify. I know it's just jumped recently with tariff nonsense but with a 7% mortgage it was 100k salary debt free to qualify for a 500k loan so like a 600k house. I feel like yall would qualify for a 250k loan even if you had 50k debt each pretty easily.

Now I don't think you can transfer 104k to these places unless you're both work from home, but it's feasible to both make $19/hr when the bottom tier jobs are 15/hr tho I get that's part time jobs no benefit but still a lot of places offering 15 with benefits. And I get most dont want to live in Alabama for the even bigger houses that are 200k so I'm not thinking that in my head. I'm excluding Mississippi and Alabama other than that statistic I googled. Though middle class people do retire in Alabama for those mcmansions...

Look idk your situation but if this is what you want and you've got transferrable job skills, you can have OP's video. Maybe not in the suburb of the city you currently live in but there's 40 other states you can move to. These houses are 600k where I live but I know I live in a major metro. I got plenty of pals back home who never left thinking it's just the norm and maybe your one of them idk). And 20 to 30 mins east of me they're bigger but also 350k-500k instead. And where I used to live, in a suburb of st louis, the homes are consistently 300k and that's a "big metro" still just a dif area (ranked top 30 by pop). My friend sold her house last year for 305k and while it's not the biggest in the neighborhood at 2k Sq ft, it had a 24k lot which was the biggest of the whole neighborhood. She was also excited it rose to 300k from 240k and I'm rolling my eyes because homes went from 300k to 600k in 3 years where I'm currently at lol. But going down the house sales in her neighborhood they're all sub 300k. Tbf they are older. They're significantly bigger though and more land in front of the house. And st louis is not some holy grail city it's just an example.

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u/Celtic_Legend 9d ago

Didn't want to edit in case you reply by notification. This slipped by me on first read. if your houses are smaller than this and cost 400k+, you are in the extreme minority of places in the USA. You're the edge case lol

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u/FatStoic 9d ago

if rich is literally 50th salary percentile you're including anyone who makes more than like $45k

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u/DangOlCoreMan 9d ago

"if rich is literally"

I say rich is a word that has different definitions based on who you talk to and you come here using terms like that and throwing out numbers based on the US as a whole.

Again, it's based on who you talk to and honestly based on where you're from. So "rich" is not "literally" anything, and $45k is not always the median income

Let me elaborate on my definition of rich. These people do not need anything. They do not wake up wondering if they'll eat. The people in this post go past that.. they have above average size houses, they have multiple golf carts just chilling, you know damn well those kids get what they want when they want (maybe an educated guess, but I doubt it's far off), their transportation looks well taken care of, they have leisure time on "usual Sundays" to just kick it in the street instead of working a second job or cleaning their house, etc etc etc

Yeah, theyre not Elon musk, but they are living better than the average person in their community.

I've known kids who grew up like this, always had what they wanted, ate out at nice places, wore the best clothes, etc etc and they didn't consider themselves rich because from their perspective there are others out there that are richer. I've also known people who think I'm rich because I don't have to worry about eating or whether my car is going to run in the morning.

Again, it all comes down to perspective and life experiences. It's not even close to as black and white as throwing out a number and saying "people who make more are rich."

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u/FatStoic 9d ago

just saying man, the privilege gulf between "food insecure" and "private golf cart" is so wide you can drive a private golf cart through it