Florida Cities Dominate Top 10 Best Places For First-Time Homebuyers, Report Finds: California is home to 16 of the 20 worst cities

Epoch Times ^ | 07/21/2025 | Mary Prenon

[P-Marlowe]

Don’t believe anything you read about Boise. Please don’t come here. 😉

[11th_VA]

Anyone from Tucson ? Looks very affordable to me - but the roads …. not so good

[P-Marlowe]

I was in Tucson one August afternoon. It was 120 degrees …. and it was raining. Never went back.

[Political Junkie Too]

I had a friend from Tucson. He said that everyone lives in their basements as the main family room because it's the coolest room in the house.

-PJ

[j.havenfarm]

Per the article, Santa Barbara is only on the list due to affordability. Rightly so, but it is glorious. Bor. and raised in Northern California, I don’t care for southern one little bit but, if I had to live there, you can’t do better than Santa Barbara

[willk]

I like the pueblo style houses in Tucson. Beautiful desert scenery. Homes prices aren’t too bad. The problem is the city is majority Democrat. So high crime and taxes.

[Dr. Sivana]

He said that everyone lives in their basements as the main family room because it's the coolest room in the house.

Few homes in Maricopa County have basements, and it is hotter here. Hence, $400 electric bills.

[Blue Highway]

I think about people migrating to Florida the same way as people crossing the border illegally. Stay out!!! This place is becoming over populated

[doorgunner69]

Summers from hell.
Day after day or 105° heat.

End up living indoors like easterners with their winters.

[tumblindice]

Stopped the car, which had chrome door handles, at a steak house outside Tucson.
The heat waves were coming off the asphalt, so soft it gave under our feet.
Saw a coyote chasing a roadrunner. They were walking, their tongues hanging out.
Heard a sidewinder rattlesnake slithering under the car, “Owie, owie, owie.”
Ate a good steak, waited upon by Satan. stepped out the door back into the AZ blast furnace and Martian landscape.
Burned hand on door handle, had to use a bandanna.
Tucson Arizona: ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’

[Political Junkie Too]

Sunrise—are among the top 10 cities

I went to high school in Sunrise, FL. It's not the same place as it was all those years ago. Oakland Park Blvd and Sunset Strip were paved only out to Pine Island Road.

-PJ

[Angelino97]

I’ve heard that Boise in a blue island in Idaho’s red sea.

[Angelino97]

Oakland's the worst?

Many years ago I heard that Camden, NJ was the worst city in America.

[Dr. Franklin]

Florida is great until a hurricane hits and people discover that their insurance doesn’t pay for much of the damage. The feds will give them loans to rebuild, but they are loans, not grants.

[Celtic Conservative]

If Florida was affordable I’d be living there now.

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

“Detroit: Where The Weak Are Killed And Eaten”.™️

CC

[srmanuel]

Depends on where and what you are looking for, north Florida above I-4 and west of I-95 all the way to Pensacola has a lot of rural farm land land which is sparsely populated with very little chance of getting damaged in a hurricane, relatively to the rest of Florida this area is still affordable in many areas but that depends on your budget

[rellic]

This article and others like it got me to thinking.
I’m an old man so I’ve been there done that.
I grew up in the general Los Angeles area.
I then moved on to the Seattle area.
I finally ended up in one of the most remote places on Earth, rural Hawaii.
What I looked for and generally found was,
5 acres minimum property(privacy and food production);
Year round natural fresh water supply( I presently live on catchment year round);
Good roads as I refuse to use public transportation for a commute(freedom of movement);
Be within 50 miles of a large body of salt water(moderate weather most of the time);
Rural communities( Democrat government policies are mostly impotent).
Most people don’t have the skills, education, or the “drive” to do the magazine “ideal” community, so they live in all the “Oaklands” there are in the world. Believe it or not there some VERY nice places in Oakland.
Moral of the story is only YOU can find/make the ideal place to live. Problem is, you have only yourself to blame if you fail. Most people don’t have the stomach for that.
Aloha.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’ve spent some time in Arizona,, around Tucson and Phoenix. But I’ve never lived there.

Anyway, I’ve been to a number of people’s houses there, and none of them had basements.