Interesting: what kind of home is worth a million bucks in various US locales

The moral of the story: Don’t live in California if your job allows you to live anywhere.

  • In Charlotte N.C., you can buy a regal estate for that money.
  • In Columbus, Ohio, or Houston you can buy a handsomely appointed house with 4000 sq feet of living space and five bedrooms on about 3/4 of an acre. (The one in Houston is waterfront property.)
  • In San Francisco, you’re on the verge of homelessness.

For a million dollars in my town, you can pretty much have any house you can find. Here is an example: 6900 square feet of living space on the waterfront.

Hawaii is not covered in the article. Here’s what you can get for a million bucks in Honolulu – a tiny, well-worn 70-year-old house with 900 sq ft. of living space and one very tiny bathroom. In my area this would go for about $90,000.

6 thoughts on “Interesting: what kind of home is worth a million bucks in various US locales

  1. I know someone that paid $980K for a relatively modest 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in Arcadia, CA (in LA County) that was smaller than the house they moved from. It was all about the school district. Their older child was nearly old to start high school and they wanted to make sure she could go to a really good school. Even people who don’t have children and have no intention of having them in the future need to be concerned about school districts when looking to buy a house because of the effect on property values. As it happened, that child did not get to “go” to the excellent high school around the corner from her house. She spent her entire freshman year as a remote student. She finally got to attend this year as a sophomore. I suppose that’s one way to avoid freshman hazing.

  2. Visited San Jose 2017 for my uncle’s funeral and stayed at his house which he bought in 1966. Before that he lived in Sunnyvale. Anyway there was a real estate ad in the mail which someone showed me of a house that in Ohio would go for @ 150k max. It was listed for $1.4 million. đŸ˜®

    My uncle’s house was about the same situation ie Ohio = 150k and in CA = $1.5 TO 2 million. And it’s not so much the house, but the property value in the San Jose, Cupertino, Santa Clara area ie Silicon Valley. San Jose supposedly the highest property value area in the U.S. Hawaii, Washington D.C., L.I. NY notwithstanding.

    My mom and dad visited my uncle 1981 and he asked my dad how much do you think the house is worth? At that time 300/400k. He bought it for @ 25k.

    In a nutshell computer folk (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo etc.) who live in the area with yuuuge salaries can’t afford to live there. Some live as far away as SF which isn’t cheap either lol.

    Went to USN computer school in Vallejo, CA 1981/82 and got a big reenlistment bonus. Should have put it all in Microsoft stock. Who knew?

    Digressing …

  3. The rich people own Hawaii. They don’t even live here. They just buy up the property and rent it out for huge amounts of money. There’s a homeless problem but it’s not because of the lack of housing; it’s just that normal people can’t afford the rent because it’s being jacked up by all these out of state entrepreneurs.

    Well, that and other states ship their homeless over here.

    1. Other states are not sending their homeless to Hawaii. That is absurd on its face, and even the slightest bit of fact checking debunks this claim.

      1. “Sending” is probably a careless way to word it. There is no evidence that any state is literally shipping homeless people there. Hawaiian officials, however, do encounter homeless arrivals. I suppose it’s a great place to be if you have to live without shelter because the temperature in Honolulu seldom dips below 60 degrees, and never dips below 50.

        I’m trying to figure out where the homeless get the money for airfare to Hawaii.

        And I just know that the next time I go there I’ll have a middle seat between two homeless dudes.

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