Wow, look at these stats. I bought my first house when I was all of 23 years old (in Silicon Valley, no less!). This shows what a nation of renters we are becoming:

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Wow, look at these stats. I bought my first house when I was all of 23 years old (in Silicon Valley, no less!). This shows what a nation of renters we are becoming:

Here’s a breakdown as to the median prices around the country. The non-shocker: West Virginia is the cheapest, and California is the most expensive.

I truly had no idea Miami, of all places, was such a hot real estate market.

The point of this graph is that almost all house sales these days are new “homes” (typically the soulless, cheaply-made travesties that get advertised on billboards). I suspect a bunch of folks are like me – – they aren’t EVER going to move, for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is the super-low tax I pay from being here so long and the fact all my dogs are buried in the back).

