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I thought the first home was much nicer than the second one in your link...which looked to me like it would need a lot of remodeling.
But, people will pay more to live in better neighborhoods that have less crime, and better schools for their children to attend. It is always a plus to be close to things like good Hospitals and the like. Prices in each city can vary drastically also....some neighborhoods are better kept, and are of a higher or lower value financially. Capitalism 101.
Honestly, I don't think it has much to do with "Liberal Areas" and "Conservative Areas" at all.
You all sometime tie so many things into that, when often I wonder if it is even a relevant fact to the subject.
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Interesting. So this doesn't qualify as a "pricey liberal area" that the OP uses as their premise...
Right, but I wasn't responding to the OP, but to another poster, who generalized about liberal areas more extensively than the OP. This poster referred to them as safe, among other descriptions.
$149,000 for 1,100 square foot home in Redding, California which is the most Republican city of it's size in the state.
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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
Nice neighborhoods, good schools, safety, shopping, dining, cleanliness, and educated and cultured neighbors are what make them more expensive places to live compared to (especially rural) conservative areas.
Surely you've both been to Redding and Compton?! There is no comparison that Redding is a heaven on earth, whereas Compton is perhaps the biggest crap hole ever devised in this nation.
The obvious answer seems not to occur to the OP: it's because you have to live among a bunch of right-wingers.
In the case of Redding, CA, which the OP pointed out has cheap houses for sale, you get to live amongst a bunch of right wingers, racists, meth heads, junkies, ...
While this may be heaven here on earth to some, apparently not enough.
$149,000 for 1,100 square foot home in Redding, California which is the most Republican city of it's size in the state.
That is generally true on the West coast but can be very different in places like Detroit and East St. Louis where they are 100% Democrat and dirt cheap.
I think the biggest reason is that our cities are places where liberals congregate and where most jobs and money are and then it comes down to supply and demand. Conservative areas tend to be rural and space is not in high demand.
Well, then, you've proven your point. Conservatism being opiate addiction, strip mining, loss of jobs, terrible education and the like....AND, when things are like that, land is cheap.
The real question is when that became evident? A lot in a trailer park up a hollow next to a salvage yard isn't very expensive (I've been there).
But if someone asked me to invest in land in WV....I would run far and fast. AND, young people have been moving out of the state in droves for generations. Is that because it is so good and housing is cheap???
"West Virginia's median age, at 41.3 years, was higher than the nation's"
#3 in "old people" in the USA. That says something about "supply and demand".
What is it about economics that some conservatives have a hard time with? Beachfront property costs more than that in rural OK.
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You don't get out much eh?
