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Originally Posted by subterranean
Don’t act like all of Detroit’s suburbs are Bloomfield Hills. There are plenty of Livonias and Westlands with decent schools where you can still get a reasonably nice house for $150k.
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In Westland, yeah, but Westland is a near-slum, with high crime and terrible schools.
In Livonia you aren't getting a move-in-ready home for anything close to 150k, and Livonia is a very average suburb. Professionals moving from the coasts probably aren't ending up in Livonia.
In upper middle class places like Northville, Novi, Plymouth, Rochester, Troy, you're gonna pay at least 400k for something decent, and it will probably be an older home that needs work. That's not insanely expensive, but not exactly cheap either, especially when you factor in high taxes and high energy costs.