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by casey28 hours ago |
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upvoteby lpapez7 hours ago|
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Exactly, and you need to start turning a profit before the end of that runway. Even if that means running code that is suboptimal.
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upvoteby ramon1567 hours ago|
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i suppose you could say the same about buying a house. just make that initial 300.000 and from there on out its easy. everything looks better on paper
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upvoteby topato4 hours ago|
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My house is a ~700 sqft. condominium, gov. subsidized for lower income individuals, and even my mortgage is more than 300k… maybe I’m just basing my info off of coastal city prices, but is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?
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upvoteby esseph4 hours ago|
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That would buy you thousands of square feet and often several acres within 20 minute drive to a lot of US city downtown areas.
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upvoteby AlotOfReading1 hours ago|
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Can you ground the discussion by mentioning what you think these cities are? Taking Columbus, OH as the most average of American cities and a 20m isochrone map from city center, there are currently 0 parcels for sale with 3+ ("several") acres under $300k. There are a few within 30m drive, one of which even has a possibly habitable structure. The rest are bare agricultural land you'd need additional investment to actually live on.
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upvoteby 8n4vidtmkvmk3 hours ago|
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Not from what I've seen. The desirable neighborhoods are 500-600k. Suburbs outside major city
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upvoteby catlifeonmars2 hours ago|
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Desirable neighborhoods are by definition expensive. The trick is to find a neighborhood you like where your home can just be a home and not a top-heavy investment.

Acknowledging this isn’t always easy or possible, but just pointing out that this is a self reinforcing problem.

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upvoteby hdjrudni1 hours ago|
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> The trick is to find a neighborhood you like where your home can just be a home and not a top-heavy investment

I meant desirable for me to live there, not as an investment. Who wants to buy a home in place they don't want to live?

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upvoteby esseph3 hours ago|
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You didn't read what I said.

I mentioned acres of land. You normally don't have multiple acres of land in the suburbs.

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upvoteby hdjrudni1 hours ago|
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Well then you didn't read parent's comment

> is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?

Who wants acreage? We want homes.

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upvoteby esseph27 minutes ago|
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> is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?

What does "city" mean to you? For some, it's 500 people, or 5,000. For some, it's 5 million. Define that first. The US is a big place, and I know people that don't live within 50 miles of another human.

Otherwise:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/424-Olive-St-Kansas-City-...

4 bed, 3 bath, 1,580 sq ft, beautiful! $342,500, built in 1900.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3508-N-College-Ave-Kansas...

4 bed, 4 bath, 2,295 sq ft, $365,000, built in 2022.

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upvoteby rcxdude6 hours ago|
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This reasoning is largely centered around the runway being finite. You obviously can't have costs so high you are making a huge loss, but also there's little value in improving margins past profitability until you actually have a stable segment of the market.
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upvoteby inopinatus7 hours ago|
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we are all perfectly smooth, round, and filled with an incompressible liquid
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upvoteby rexpop7 hours ago|
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Every startup is one bet in a Martingale strategy played by the class of people who remain solvent when you bust.
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upvoteby robocat6 hours ago|
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The median return for a startup is $0. Take care when trying to extrapolate cause and effect.
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