Yeah, I live in a country where the median pre-tax income is a bit below 2k EUR, and I moved to a small town because my childhood home is here and after my ex-wife fucked up my finances, this is the one place where I don’t have to pay rent and have a garden where my toddler can comfortably run around and play (with me watching of course)
Renting an apartment nice enough for a single person would be like 230 EUR a month here. For a family, maybe 300. Less than half of what it is in the “cities” in this country, but I’m an hour away from the two or three bigger ones and they’re not even that big. Take a big country like the US and you have much more drastic differences. Manhattan vs Queens is already a major difference, but try Manhattan vs some random small town in upstate NY that isn’t near the great lakes or anything else spectacular. You’re bound to have at LEAST a 10x difference in price per square foot, but it could be like 20-30x by now.
Universal WFH for office workers that don’t have a good reason to be in the office would do so much for housing affordability, it’s not even funny. Because so many people would just leave the big cities for small towns or even literal forest cabins as long as they can get internet access somehow.
Yep, here where I live there’s too much difference as well, although the prices you’re mentioning sound significantly lower than here were I do. And, by the way, sorry about what happened with your ex-wife 😟
Yeah, I live in a country where the median pre-tax income is a bit below 2k EUR, and I moved to a small town because my childhood home is here and after my ex-wife fucked up my finances, this is the one place where I don’t have to pay rent and have a garden where my toddler can comfortably run around and play (with me watching of course)
Renting an apartment nice enough for a single person would be like 230 EUR a month here. For a family, maybe 300. Less than half of what it is in the “cities” in this country, but I’m an hour away from the two or three bigger ones and they’re not even that big. Take a big country like the US and you have much more drastic differences. Manhattan vs Queens is already a major difference, but try Manhattan vs some random small town in upstate NY that isn’t near the great lakes or anything else spectacular. You’re bound to have at LEAST a 10x difference in price per square foot, but it could be like 20-30x by now.
Universal WFH for office workers that don’t have a good reason to be in the office would do so much for housing affordability, it’s not even funny. Because so many people would just leave the big cities for small towns or even literal forest cabins as long as they can get internet access somehow.
Yep, here where I live there’s too much difference as well, although the prices you’re mentioning sound significantly lower than here were I do. And, by the way, sorry about what happened with your ex-wife 😟