Has anyone else paid attention to Housing prices? Wow

Not likely!
I can't afford to go anywhere.
I'm just hoping the county doesn't raise my taxes along with the values around me.
There IS greener grass on the other side of the fence.

there is plenty of cheaper real estate in rural America. Rural America. There still is much less expensive land!!!!

move to those places and your dollar goes further.

I keep trying to tell everyone that there are (kinda, basically) 2 economies in America-big city/north east/California and then rural America. The poor barely skilled labored people where I live all have land and homes, maybe double and single wides, with grandma CLOSE next door in a short single wide-but land and homes,

the poorest (pay attention people with money) are renting lots and living in CHEAP trailers, sometimes without sanitation facilities-no sewage, maybe a burning barrel, not always running water-but paying for the lot and electricity all the same.

I understand that many ‘need’ to live near cities and jobs, but cheap land IS available to buy elsewhere.