It’s amazing. The highest price suggests high demand and low supply. Yet these are the filthiest, most drug-infested, highest crime cities in the country.
We keep hearing about people fleeing these sh!t hole cities, yet the demand is still there to keep those prices in the stratosphere.
It doesn’t add up.
The lower cost of living here in Idaho is real nice.
Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans, etc. are worse. Rich people live in NY, SF, LA, DC. So prices are high. Bums and addicts don't mind living there either. Rich people don't mind paying high taxes and don't want to support the police, so the cities go downhill. But there are still worse places to live.
Why would anyone pay a premium to live in a shithole?
Because they are idiots!
The rich people don’t have to deal with most of the bad consequences of these cities.
Their high rises have armed guards and sophisticated electronic security.
Their vehicles are in highly secure garages—or they have chauffeurs driving them from place to place.
Their workplaces have similar security measures.
That is why they don’t care if the police forces are defunded—they don’t need them anyway.
“The lower cost of living here in Idaho is real nice.”
I moved ONE county over in South Central Wisconsin 8 years ago. Takes about 45 minutes to get from my old farm to my new farm.
Old farm: Taxes were $3,800.00 for ONE acre. (Hobby Farm.)
New farm: Taxes are $3K for 160 acres and a house twice as big.
Big city living doesn’t appeal to me in the least.