Amazing value properties in the US - what's the catch?

You have to remember that most large American settlements are nothing but suburbs and retail parks/strip malls, with no traditional town centre or community to speak of. These properties are cheap because no sane person would move there.

Take into account that most UK town centres are toilets filled with charity shops and endless shopping chains, I'd venture that he won't be missing all that much.
 
check out the prices in New Mexico!

Im currently house hunting, but the prices round this way are more expensive, and we get raped with property tax since there is no state tax.
 
OP, I sincerely hope you are looking for a house for an adult to buy and not trying for some sort of Home Alone scenario.

Florida is a dump for the most part (and I lived there for almost three years).
 
You know how we build our houses with bricks? they don't. They use wood and paper mache.

Whatever AcidHell2 is called now, will be coming for you, he gets really, really overcome when people knock wood construction.

The walls in my place in Florida had more cockroach content than anything else. Alive!
 
You know how we build our houses with bricks? they don't. They use wood and paper mache.

Houses are traditionally built of whatever is readily available locally. Timber was common pretty well everywhere when the US was being developed and was relatively easy to process and transport to places where it wasn't.

I suspect that Clay for brick making was rather less so and bricks are much more difficult (expensive) to transport away from the brickworks so Brick houses would only have been built in areas where clay was readily available.

What is more. Timber construction is also common in areas where one gets bad weather! NOTHING short of a Nuclear bunker can withstand a direct hit from a Hurricane or Tornado!

In areas where such weather is a hazard it is better to build cheaply and rebuild damaged properties afterwards when the worst happens.
 
Lovely place to live, in roughly a 1 mile radius around that address there have been 7 shootings, 2 stabbings and another murder in the past 3 months.


If I am reading the Blurb right. it is also in a "Gated community" If you are in the sort of neighbourhood where one needs to live in a "Firebase" then it is possible that there might be crime issues!

I was trying to check out street view of the area to try to see what kind of area it actually is but havnt managed to do so yet.

(My Niece recently went to Brazil to do an internship as part of a language course. I street-viewed the area where she was going to be billeted/working to check for burned out cars, undesirables loitering on street corners etc etc. Fortunatly it checked out OK! Quite useful this internet thingy! ;) )
 
Theres othing around here but trees, until you get to the coast, head north west into Vermont and all you see for hours and hours is thick forest.

Thats why most houses are made of wood, it grows on the trees round these parts..:p
 
Better to go find a place in BC Canada! I lived there awhile back and you can get very nice houses on Victoria Island for £45k ... Weather in BC is very much like California, so very nice indeed. Downside is unemployment, but if you have something set up, then it's the way to go.

Think you might mean Vancouver Island? There is the city of Victoria on the island.

Victoria Island is way way up north, long way from BC! Not many people live there.
 
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