There are plenty of bargain priced homes in rural areas, but rather than live in their own home, they'd rather pay rent so that they can live close to Starbucks, in a vibrant multihued neighborhood of rainbow colors, strange smells, and odd noises.
Everyone should ask themselves, why they live where they live , and how they support themselves. How did they end up living where they live.
These rural areas have bargain priced homes, but many of those areas are economically depressed areas with limited job opportunities. Although that’s changing somewhat with the rise of remote work.
But it’s nothing new to see people in small towns , move to bigger cities for better opportunities Many people in small towns go away to college, and then never return to their hometowns. There’s nothing new about that.
Although I would agree, it seems very trivial to want to live in a place because they have a Starbucks, and reject more rural locations which do not have a Starbucks.
I would dearly love to live in the country but acreages around here are way too expensive. Then again, I’m a widow nearing retirement age so I don’t have much hope for financial growth right now. I’ve got a fixer-upper house in a small town, doing my best to bring everything up to code and make it work for my kids and grandkids to have time together here. But I’m hoping the property taxes don’t force me out. When I bought the house I couldn’t get a loan to do some of the fixing up because the assessor said that no matter what improvements I made, because of its location on a busy highway the property would never be worth more than $100,000. My last valuation was $242,000.