Seems as though a few areas in the U.S. have seen large growth in real estate values since the Covid thing. Mostly, it should be said, this is because property in the area was relatively inexpensive — i.e. the growth is off a low base. Some of the towns, though, are inexplicable.
Top 10 cities and how much the value of their homes has increased since 2019:
- Knoxville, TN – +86% — I’d live there
- Fayetteville, AR – +84.5% — low base
- Charleston, SC – +81.3% — I’d live there
- Scranton, PA – +78.4% — inexplicable; shit hole
- Syracuse, NY – +77.6% — inexplicable; shit hole
- Portland, ME – +75.7% — I’d live there
- Rochester, NY – +75.2% — inexplicable; shit hole
- New Haven, CT – +73.8% — expensive became more expensive
- Charlotte, NC – +73.1% — sorry, nope
- Chattanooga, TN – +72.9% — low base, but I’d live there.
See any on the list where you’d care to live? Your comments are welcome.
Maine just passed Red flag laws by referendum so Maine is off of the list until they get Mills out and a bunch of other dirty commies. New Hampshire is the better option.
Arkansas, the Carolinas are out due to summer humidity. I liked TN when I visited. Eastern TN has been filled with retirees for over a decade now. Word on the street is they have or will make the tax laws better for retirement. TN has lots of places for recreational activities on the water including fishing, boating etc.
My cousin lived in Philly for a while and referred to Pennsylvania as Pensyl-tucky. It was essentially Kentucky with the very leftist cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as book ends. Didn’t Scranton produce Pedo Joe Biden?
New Haven, CT? it has some nice restaurants but that is it. Go a few blocks away from Yale and the hospitals and New Haven gets shitty very very quickly.
None of the above. I’m quite happy where I am…for now. Because all the Filthydelphians and New Yuckers are deciding they’ve had enough of the Leftist urban shithole hellscapes they’ve voted for, and are moving out here and bringing their Leftist ideology out here and are voting to turn the place into a Leftist rural shithole hellscape.
My parents grew up a few miles north of Scranton. It was located in one of the most productive anthracite (hard coal) deposits in the northeast. The mines were flooded back in the 1940s and the town pretty much died. The area was finally cleaned up but the ground is honeycombed with old mine workings which occasionally collapse and swallow high dollar homes. Nobody seems to care when the cheap properties sink. To my understanding a couple of the mines are burning. Not as bad as Centralia but there’s still lots of air and ground water pollution.
With all that the valley is quite pretty and the smaller communities north and east seem to have escaped the worst of the mining legacy. I still have relatives in the area. Its a nice place to visit because of my family ties, but I can think of lots better places to live.
I purchased a small farm in Clinton, TN several years ago from my great-aunt (she referred to herself as my “greatest aunt”). She and her husband built it in the late 50’s. 3/2.5 on a slab, porches on 3 sides, 3 big outbuildings, two ponds and 800′ of river frontage. She wanted it to stay in the family and while everyone in the family was interested in inheriting it, no one (save me) was interested in buying it. I gave her a fair price at the time ($179K) and said she could live in it rent free until she passed. She passed in 2022 at the age of 94.
I’m currently renting it to a distant cousin, who would like to buy it, but the current value is somewhere around $410K and that’s way more than he can afford.
I thought I’d move there someday, but the Last Wife wouldn’t even take a trip to TN to look at it. She’s never leaving Northern Virginia as long as her sons live her and I guess I’m not either. Real shame.
That sounds like it’s worth every bit of the $410k. I’d be interested in that!
Though, it depends a lot on what’s going on around it. Shitty neighbors ruin everything.
“….two ponds and 800′ of river frontage.”
Sounds like heaven to me, if you’re still physically capable of maintaining and enjoying it.
Given what I know and detest about northern Virginia, Last Wife’s sons better be something really special not to take advantage of that, at least part of the year.
I lived in Syracuse (suburbs) for decades. It’s where the job was, and where I could afford to live, fresh out of the Marine Corps. Despite the winters and being the tail on the NYC dog when it comes to politics, it was actually a decent place to raise a family. There was virtually no traffic even during our laughably short rush hour, good schools and restaurants especially Italian, Wegmans, and everything is close, including the Adirondack mountains . Of course the politics, taxes and economy are getting worse, and they are ruining the North – South interstate 81 through the city.
Not what I want now, but it wasn’t what most seem to think.