| [AmericanTribune] Things had already become interesting when I was a schoolgirl in the mid- to late-1970s. I was not permitted by my parents and my more sophisticated friends to take the bus and go to downtown Buffalo, NY on my own, lest Bad Things happen, which limited me to biking to friends’ houses in my very safe suburb, as there also wasn’t money to get me drivers insurance. But the small, 1950s ranch house my parents bought for the excellent school district sold a few years ago for a little over $300,000 even though the school district is still rated excellent and the community is still very safe. So that $600K thing, which certainly deserves to be protested, must be specific to much bigger cities — I just checked the internet, and the average house price in my Cincinnati exurb is about $350,000. So the key seems to be to stay away from places like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City. |