where do you live?

[nietzsche]

http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/

[Lootifer]

$239702.48 according to current exchange rate.

[JBlombier]

On tv they always want to make you believe that in NYC you gotta be in Manhattan and Brooklyn is not done. Looking at the median prices there, I beg to differ...
There are more interesting stats, won't describe 'm all. Somehow I really feel I got to know the USA just a little bit better, so that's cool.

[mrswdk]

So basically, the only places in the US worth living are New York, Washington, San Fran and LA. Sounds about right.

Why is there a random red county in the middle of the Rocky Mountains? What's driving prices up there?

[notyou2]

I don't want to live any of those places.

Perhaps Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.

[KoolBak]

If you mean that red spot in NW Wyoming, thats Yellowstone....lol

[mrswdk]

What's in Yellowstone that makes prices so high?

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yellowstone

[notyou2]

What's in Yellowstone that makes prices so high?

Yogi and Booboo

[KoolBak]

3,500 square miles of prime scenery, of which very little is available for public ownership. A buddy has 100 acres smack dab in the middle that was grandfathered to their family as it was homesteaded before the park was formed. Literally priceless land, BUT the feds have added a little rule that it can only be held in their family and if they want to sell it, the guv'ment gets first dibs for $1.00

Awesome freaking place to play tho....own private reserve.....

As to the rankings, it must be so skewed....in Oregon, for example, the high values are in the 15% of the state around portland...the balance is primarily ranches, farms and BLM land, however the avg sales figures say under $60 grand for that 85% of the state....must just be listing single family residences and NOT big spreads? Interesting.

[mrswdk]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yellowstone

I'm well aware there's a park there. That doesn't seem like enough to make houses expensive though, so I asked the Americans.

Sorry to wake you. You can go back to dreaming guilty dreams about the EDL now.

[saxitoxin]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yellowstone

I'm well aware there's a park there. That doesn't seem like enough to make houses expensive though, so I asked the Americans.

Chinaman want mooncake.

Mooncake cheap.

Mooncake $1!

But only one mooncake left in world!

Oh no! Now mooncake not cheap!

Mooncake now $1,000,000!

What Chinaman do?

No mooncake.

[notyou2]

What the raw stats aren't telling you:
This is the first year since 1945 that urban populations are growing more than the suburbs. Hopefully, the end of suburbs is nigh. In another 70 years, we will dig up C.D. Howe's remains just to behead him.

You gotta go through all those Bluenosers to get to his remains. They will fight you. He's a god to them.

[muy_thaiguy]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yellowstone

I'm well aware there's a park there. That doesn't seem like enough to make houses expensive though, so I asked the Americans.

Sorry to wake you. You can go back to dreaming guilty dreams about the EDL now.

It's a National Park. Building a house within the vicinity alone is not cheap. Plus the nearest town is Cody, Wyoming. Just short of 10,000 people.

And that red is actually Teton County. Think Hollywood, the mountains version. A lot of celebrities and rich people have homes there (like Harrison Ford for example).

[Army of GOD]

I moved from 499k to 109k

[tzor]

So basically, the only places in the US worth living are New York, Washington, San Fran and LA. Sounds about right.

High prices does not mean it's worth living there. You need to factor in cost of living and average income. Sometimes the cheaper places are better because of the lower tax burdens on the people means that a lower income can have a better standard of living. Also in many of the "high price" areas (like NY and LA) there are laws that limit the number of property units that can be built ... too many people chasing too few houses results in price inflation.

Living way out on Long Island, I'm about $259K

[tzor]

This is the first year since 1945 that urban populations are growing more than the suburbs. Hopefully, the end of suburbs is nigh. In another 70 years, we will dig up C.D. Howe's remains just to behead him.

Ha ha ha ha ha. It's clear you don't know Obama's EVIL PLAN. Well you will. Don't worry, you will.

Attention America’s Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed

It’s difficult to say what’s more striking about President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation: its breathtaking radicalism, the refusal of the press to cover it, or its potential political ramifications. The danger AFFH poses to Democrats explains why the press barely mentions it. This lack of curiosity, in turn, explains why the revolutionary nature of the rule has not been properly understood. Ultimately, the regulation amounts to back-door annexation, a way of turning America’s suburbs into tributaries of nearby cities.

The plan has three elements: 1) Inhibit suburban growth, and when possible encourage suburban re-migration to cities. This can be achieved, for example, through regional growth boundaries (as in Portland), or by relative neglect of highway-building and repair in favor of public transportation. 2) Force the urban poor into the suburbs through the imposition of low-income housing quotas. 3) Institute “regional tax-base sharing,” where a state forces upper-middle-class suburbs to transfer tax revenue to nearby cities and less-well-off inner-ring suburbs (as in Minneapolis/St. Paul).