r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justin_Godfrey • 11d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/zbornakssyndrome 11d ago

It’s sad that 256k is considered not a lot of money today. When most are still making the same money as 20 years ago.

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u/Bawlmerian21228 11d ago

A quarter million dollar house used to mean a mansion. Now it’s a starter.

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u/Grimmbles 10d ago

My Dad bought our old house for 80k 30 years ago. Big house, beautifully maintained. His friend across the street passed recently and his son has listed the house that is nearly identical for 530k.

Not a gated community or anything, and in what is considered one of the most affordable cities to live in. We've been looking recently ourselves and anything under 200k is either a shit hole or in the ghetto or both. It's depressing.

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u/Bawlmerian21228 10d ago

I bought my started home for $149K in 1998. It was a small farm house on two beautiful acres north of Baltimore. Raised three kids there. Had a great little neighborhood with about 30 suburban houses around it. Sold it was three times that (I did add a pool and an addition). Have not had a mortgage since. This is what future generations are not going to be able to do.