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    “If you want to move to a shithole, you can get a good deal on a house” is not the persuasive argument you think it is.

    EDIT: Just so you know where this person is coming from, they’ve moved on to talk about how fascism isn’t so bad from a “global perspective” and being anti-fascist is just “tribalism.”

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        Yeah, there are plenty of other places you can live though.

        Sure sounds like your argument to me. But do tell us the non-shithole places you can live where houses are less than $300,000.

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          Places with median home prices under 300K and Democrats in state government:

          • Buffalo, NY
          • Rochester, NY
          • Michigan

          (Since you live in IN, you don’t need me to tell you that Michigan is a pretty nice state to live in).

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            I live in Michigan. Most of the houses below 300k are either so far out in the sticks you can barely even get Internet, or they’re in dangerous and very run down areas.

            There are a few nice places listed at 250k, but they sell instantly and for quite a bit above what they’re listed at, so it’s not like you can actually get one of them.

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              The median price is under 300K, so at least half the houses in Michigan cost less than 300K.

              So what you’re saying is that more than half the people in the state of Michigan live in houses that are not nice enough for you?

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          @jordanlund already linked saying the average price for a home is 170k in Mississppi, and even that isn’t necessary to find a nice place.

          My house was only $60k and it’s 1,200 sqft and 10 minutes from a hospital.

          The real issue here is your entitlement. You think you’re ‘too good’ to live in places that many others do because you think you’re better than them.

          Well, if you’re so much better than them then pay up, lol. The problem with you people is that you think you’re entitled to live in expensive places, but you’re not actually valuable enough to society to have a salary that can pay for them. Then you want other people to foot the bill so you can continue to have more than those living in what you deem ‘shitholes.’

          You’d come across as more genuine if you just admitted it. But you won’t. Nobody wants to acknowledge their entitlement, lol.

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              “The entire state of Mississippi isn’t good enough for me, but I’m not entitled.”

              Yeah… supply and demand applies to you too, buddy. We can’t all live in the Bahamas (which is actually surprisingly cheap), but that doesn’t make ‘regular’ places like Mississippi shitholes. You can live a higher quality of life than the vast majority of people in a $60k* house in Mississippi.

              *I haven’t been house searching for 2 years, it’s overwhelmingly likely this number has increased to $70k or even $80k. Still way way cheaper than what you think a house should cost.

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                    Close. Terre Haute, Indiana. And, like the rest of Indiana, it’s a shithole. So I may know a little bit about living in a shithole.

                    And yeah, you can probably get a house that cheap here- if you want a “unique fixer-upper” in between the meth lab house and the house with squatters in it.

                    Now it’s your turn to tell me that if I didn’t want to live in the luxurious town of Terre Haute, known throughout the world as The Utopia on the Wabash, I’d know how people really live.