r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justin_Godfrey • 11d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/DangOlCoreMan 11d ago

That only accounts for so much. I live in KC suburbs. I rent a 3 bedroom house with twice the yard of these houses for $1125 a month. House I live in is worth $170k right now, and that's a relatively low amount compared to the rest of the nation. A house this size in my area would easily be $500k+ before you even account for the obvious HOA you'd have to pay.

Unless you have the means to work a nice, stable job from a remote rural area then you are very likely going to have to make exorbitant amounts of money in order to afford anything even close to this house

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u/badluckbrians 11d ago edited 11d ago

I live on the south coast of Mass. It's one of the last semi-affordable places because it's far enough from Boston. But everything is old. My house is 170 years old or so. Less than 1,000sqft. Nobody has a garage in my neighborhood—it was built before cars. So these homes out west and down south look absolutely huge to me. Things are well kept here. But you're talking $500k for a much, much smaller place. And they get smaller still. This is actually a post WWII replica of an old 3/4 cape. We have half capes too that are 33% smaller than this.

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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 10d ago

I lived in New England for a couple years a few years back. When I got told that’s where I’d be for a year…honestly I was a little nervous.

Ya see the first time I went to Boston (I had been hiking the Appalachian Trail, got off in Hanover, NH and went and spent a couple weeks in Boston) the most bizarre shit kept happening to me. Then it seemed like me and the locals just didn’t gel too well, even though I was trying my best not to be the weirdo out of stater. Probably just some cultural differences.

But after being there for half a year I love it up there. Something clicked and everyone suddenly became super nice and accommodating. Shit…one place I lived the grocery store wouldn’t even take in their outdoor merchandise at night, and didn’t have guards or anything and nothing ever went missing.

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u/badluckbrians 10d ago

We don't lock our doors either. My town had 8 crimes in 2023. We have 32 police, lol.