• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Missouri is weird

    None of that is around St Louis or Kansas City

    I wonder what role property taxes play in this. Illinois has some of the highest property taxes in the country

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      8 months ago

      It’s average home prices vs average wages. Things like property taxes and cost of living aren’t included.

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      8 months ago

      The areas of Missouri are just low income. I’m from Kansas and I noticed a couple of our yellow counties are college towns.

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        8 months ago

        That is interesting

        My mindset while looking at the graph is ridiculously out of control housing prices, but the inverse would also be true of low incomes as well

        Certainly makes me feel for those where both situations are true

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    Fun bit for the west tip of Maryland, that’s a resort area so lots of people from NOVA, DC, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, etc… have vacation homes there, greatly inflating the median home price.

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    On the border of 4-6 & 6-10, yeah. Spent around $150k on rent before moving back in to care for elderly parents.

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    Wow. Get why people say Chicago is affordable. Didn’t even impact the surrounding counties like other cities.