Buyers can snap up a home for $400 in this shrinking Southern city — but there’s a catch

NY Post ^ | 09/04/2024 | Realtor.com

[mfish13]

Smells of sulphur from the paper mill. High in crime. I had a large customer in the north part of PB. Just drove down frm the Little Rock airport hotel.

[niteowl77]

Some years ago a facility near us closed and a number of employees were able to relocate to the Little Rock area. They were none too pleased with the reality of greater Little Rock, and a few actually wondered if it would be better to commute from Pine Bluff... until they visited it. As one guy put it, "Pine Bluff is like Little Rock in hospice."

I think that everyone who made the move and stayed in AR eventually ended up in the Ozarks.

[dynachrome]

[dynachrome]

See #23

[super7man]

City Data is a good site too.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Things get any worse(CoL), thinking of expat to Ecuador/other.

[NautiNurse]

The lack of jobs does not concern him as he's never had a job anyway.

Bless you.

[Moonmad27]

Pine Ridge was just what I thought about. Lum ‘n’ Abner would have been interesting neighbors.

(Yes, I do listen to SiriusXM Radio Classics)

[usurper]

how is this possible?

Well of course he's 36 and still lives with his mom and they just sold a small house in Lake Tahoe for 700K.

[usurper]

how does a person who’s never worked buy a house?

He still lives with his mom at 36. She did not work either. They both sponged off her mom until she passed last year. I have refused to fund their lifestyle.

They sold grandmas house in Tahoe for 700k, bought in OK for 300K and they are now mortgage free.

[woodbutcher1963]

West Virginia is the cheapest state in the country to buy a home.
I believe KY and IN are next in line.

Drugs are a major problem in WV. It was ground zero for the Opiod crisis. There were more Oxicotin pills given out in one WV county than anywhere else in the USA/World.

[faithhopecharity]

hi!
yes, i figured that someone gave them the $$.
it takes money to buy houses and, for most of us anyway, work is how we get our $$.

My view for whatever it may be worth:
young folks being given too much $$ ruins their character for, often, their entire lives

too many young people given too much $$$$ is very damaging to our society, too

But yes, I wish I had had a generous grandma, smiles smiles smiles smiles

[Responsibility2nd]

Once in a while, I’ll come across some YouTubes of some of the worst places to live in America. Places like Oakland, Detroit, Gary, and other Third World hell holes. Pine Bluff is one of those places. These Youtubers drive through the town recording block after block and mile after mile of urban ghettos that you do not want to be in day or night.

[Responsibility2nd]

You posted a perfect post. A picture is worth 1000 words. And you posted exactly and precisely why Pine Bluff is the way it is without posting a single word.

[brianl703]

Another way to tell is to visit the local hospital ER after about midnight.

If it’s a steady stream of perps and cops, stay away. Double so if the local PD actually has an office in the ER.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

300K for a home near Pine Bluff is nuts. He paid a least twice what it was worth. Of course, what it's worth is what someone is willing to pay you. But gee whiz, you could buy all of Pine Bluff for that price.

[LouAvul]

A house in Tahoe went for $700K? What was it? A shipping container?

[AppyPappy]

The Oxy thing has pretty much run its course. You don’t see as many zombies in Princeton or Bluefield anymore. WV has done a good job of “cleaning itself up”.
Eastern KY is so poor, people in WV make fun of it. That being said, it makes towns in Virginia near the border with KY look good.

[AnAmericanMother]

My father-in-law was born there in 1916 . . . his father was a Methodist minister and they were just passing through.

Sounds like a good place to be from.

[newfreep]

My broke son just bought a house near there. It was about 300K.

What is the strategy for someone broke to buy a $300k house?

Axin' for a friend...