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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of affordable areas of the country to live.[/quote]

I think you are missing the point.  There was an article recently about some random town in Michigan…probably an affordable area in your eyes.

Well, the median price has doubled in just the last 5 years because of people selling from high cost area and moving there.  Great for them, but now the locals are priced out.

Now they have a homeless problem…mainly due to local jobs not paying enough and rents increasing as much as owning.

It cascades.[/quote]

Then these priced-out people need to move to an even cheaper town/city/zip code /state.  Their inertia and lack of hustle is not a “crisis.”

[b]There are vast, vast swaths of the United States that have plenty of homes and these do overlap with adequate jobs. [/b]

Domestic migration is a tradition in the US, or it used to be.

If your rent goes up to the point you can’t afford it, and you have no specialized skills keeping you tied to, say, semi-coastal Maine, then you need to move inland. Or to upstate NY. Or Iowa.

All of these places are looking for certified nursing assistants and have low rent options. You’re not entitled to Camden or Knoxville. 
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Great...list 5 of them for us. The adequate jobs part needs to support your locations.[/quote]

Look at small cities in Nebraksa (unemployment 2.7%) and North Dakota (unemployment 2.3%) to start.   Sioux Falls SD (1.6%) or Rapid City SD (1.8%)

I absolutely, positively guarantee that an able bodied adult who takes a job in an agricultural processing plant or physical rehabilitation facility in these towns/ cities will earn enough to cover rent and utilities and a used car+insurance in the geographic area where they work.

Renovated 1-bedrooms in Sioux Falls SD rent for about $1200 inc. utilities.  A no-skill-required job in logistics WITH health benefits pays $22/hr. or $3500/ month.   Construction pays $31/ hr or $4900 month, again with health insurance.  The no-skill nursing assistant job pays $22/hr.

So if a couple take jobs as a nursing assistant and logistics when they move to Sioux Falls, they will gross $7000 a month.  Which will easily cover their 1-bed apartment with granite and a pool ($1200), 2 car payments on a couple of very reliable 2021 Toyota Corollas ($375 x 2 = 700), car insurance and groceries and gas.

This assumes married filing jointly.

There are cities like this all over the country, actually.  They are in places that Amherst-educated DCUMer Caitlin would never personally consider for herself, but they are readily available for the low/un-skilled guy languishing on the outskirts of DMV who claims he "can't afford" to live here.

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Just spent 30 seconds a Google search and there is an article from 9/24/24 about the Sioux Falls housing crisis.  The median monthly house payment is 40% of median wages which the SD government realizes is unsustainable.  Also, mention people from Minneapolis moving out there since it’s cheaper than that area and only about a 3.5 hour drive…some may only have to be in the office like 1 day a week or people are just moving there for cheaper RE.

ND areas are near oil and gas deposits and they have grappled with housing issues for years and workers end up living in trailers.

Sorry..what else do you have?  You can’t just randomly list places that you think so affordable that actually aren’t compared to the jobs that actually exist and median incomes.[/quote]

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