Here is what $780,000 buys you in Los Angeles Real Estate

If you like the beach it is a steal.

I'd take the one in Long Beach in a heartbeat. But 2BR/1BA seems awfully little for nearly 1400 sq. ft. I guess that includes the detached "bonus room," which probably used to be a garage.

Waste of money

About the same in San Diego.

Probably even more expensive in San Francisco.

$780,000 in the Bay Area gets you an artisanal cardboard box and a trowel for digging places to shit.

$765,000 in Cleveland suburb.

Geez. How does anyone afford to live anywhere right now?

But the original whatevers! And the tile! It was hand-crafted in the 1970s!

Same in Colorado.

[quote]$765,000 in [bold]Cleveland[/bold] suburb

Ohio??

No thanks. I'l take the house in Los Angeles where at least I know my vote will count when election time comes around.

Yeah, your vote in California does a lot of good. It really counts for nothing, since it won't make a difference.

Sure, troll @ R11

If only the California delegation were the single biggest contributor in the House of Representatives, or were about to hold the Speakership of the House, or about to head 4 of the biggest committees that will have the power to bring down the Trump administration...

Yeah, California votes matter so little...

Eh, I sold my 1200 sq ft 2br 2batb apartment in Manhattan for $859k in 2005. Monthly fees (includes heat & electric& property taxes) was about $2100.

So weird that a house can have just over 1300 sq ft and have three bedrooms. We live in a Jr 4 (basically a one bedroom and a tiny maids type room off the kitchen) and it’s 1100 sq ft. Those bedrooms must be tiny.

As a New Yorker it’s weird to me that a HOUSE would be that small. I think of a house to be at least 2500/2800 sq ft (and that’s not terribly big either)

I used to boast about how much more you could for the same amount in other cities. But as I age, I realize how important it is for me to want to live around larger gay populations. Western NY is fucking desolate.

We're colonizing Nevada and Texas.

Why does such a wealthy state lack affordable housing?

The craftsman in Long Beach is gorgeous.

There's plenty of affordable housing -- just not in the parts of California where you want to live.

California has affordable housing, it is a state with thousands of communities. Head to the central valley to find cheap housing.

with 275k you can get a 4 bedroom/2 bathroom house in the San Joaquin Valley.

Or this 2 story house for 269k . 4 bedrooms/3 bathrooms

I love that craftsman in Long Beach.

[quote] So weird that a house can have just over 1300 sq ft and have three bedrooms.

I grew up in a house that was probably less than 1,000 sq ft and it had 3 bedrooms. Yes, they were small but my family could afford it since my dad never made much money at his job. Today, where can people afford a house when they don’t make a whole lot of money? We had a basement & a decent sized front & back yard. Plenty of room for kids to play outdoors, but then again, we all played outdoors in those days & kids really don’t play outdoors at all anymore.

Funny thing - my block was built after the war when housing developments were just starting. The builder made all the houses on our block exactly the same. This outraged some townspeople people, so they demanded that housing developments must have 4 different style houses in any development. My parents house was the only one on the block, after 50 years, that was never added onto, never had the basement finished, never renovated the one bathroom and had the same furnace.

Those tricky tack houses, looked down upon by so many people, kept the working class affordably housed. Today, the modern equivalent of my father’s salary, even when my mother worked part time, would not be enough to buy a house.

So basically in order for your money to go far now you have to live in Omaha.