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Old Posted Oct 3, 2019, 1:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Crawford View Post
I think what people are trying to say is "Chicago (really alongside Philly, which is slightly cheaper, and arguably more traditionally urban) is one of the few American cities with "real" urbanity that has relatively low sales prices". That is certainly true. But that's very different than "affordable" and housing cost isn't related to urbanity.
I would even go a step further and go back to your earlier point that Chicago's sales prices are only "cheap" relative to 3 or 4 other cities. It's like yeah, if you're in this really specific market of wanting to live in an expensive city, but not the most expensive city, with good transit, a plurality of densely populated neighborhoods, and in a metro area with more than 4 million people, then Chicago wins.
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