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>>54335702
>thats literally what i'm saying, like are all these retards trying to buy houses in big cities or some shit?
You do realise there is a lot more to buying a home than purely the price. From a 'technical' point of view, yes, it is 'possible' to get a cheap home if you are 50 miles outside any habited area and someone wants to sell you an asbestos death trap. However, even if the housing a serviceable, are those homes near good schools? Are those homes near my workplace? Is the community filled with undesirables? Can the house be insured? What's the crime rate of the area? Is the house up to basic standards? Does the house have issues with heating/leakage/damp etc. Buying housing is not a simple as "Roof = sorted". People who want to buy a home want a stable and secure community. They don't just want the bricks and slate.
>get a decent cheap home or even a multi family and go charge some rentoids more than your mortgage while you live in the other unit. simplest concept ever.
Excluding the fact people usually don't want to live with a handful of strangers that you don't know, this is exactly why America is fucked. Basic necessities such as housing are nothing more than money-generating vehicles to try to exploit people for as much money as possible providing as little as possible. Other countries have issues like this, but to no way near the same extent because they either have significant subsidised housing to fuck over monopoly landlords, have better housing regulation or they regularly build more housing. The American government, despite numerous examples of successes in other Western nations, has decided to do nothing for the last century because God Forbid they upset the "free market" of megacorp monopolies.