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Well the houses are dinky and run down

I know you must not know what I am talking about because when people come from the Bay Area to where I live, they go wow, this would be a multimillion dollar house where I live, wow, everything is so big here, wow, everything is painfully clean and fixed up here

So, hit flyover country sometime, then you will know what I am talking about

Been there - family in Austin, Iowa City, Boulder, and I regularly travel on business within the US. When there's less demand, less buys more in both houses and land to build new houses - basic supply and demand. But there are plenty of big, spacious houses on big, spacious lots in the Bay Area - and they cost a lot of money. Even the smaller houses are no less nice than anything I've seen outside of the Bay Area. I think it might just be the people you're running into from the Bay Area.