Yep. Most affordable means places one doesn’t want to live.
Absolutely! For the past several years one of our hobbies has been looking at places on Zillow with the hope that someday in the not so distant future we will escape the overpriced liberal hell hole we currently live in. Typically when my wife finds a house that looks like a castle for a super reasonable price there is always a reason.
When you find a cheap house that looks very nice in other places... it will often be located in a place where English speaking white people make up less than 30% of the population and your chances of being murdered, raped, assaulted burglarized or robbed are several times the national average.
Then there are the places with high property taxes. Upstate New York has all sorts of beautiful cheap places, but the property taxes on a house that is practically being given away will often be over $10,000 a year.
Then there are the places with intolerable climates. Places where a 3rd or more of the year it is typically in the 90s with high humidity, or in the 100s with low humidity. Not to mention places where the winters are super cold, or places where it drizzles nearly every day for approximately 9 months out of the year. Then there are the places that are so remote that it takes you two hours to drive to a Walmart.