Here in a Dallas/Ft Worth suburb we pay $1,100 a month for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath brand-new manufactured home. Can’t do that in Brooklyn, Seattle, San Francisco or Boston.
My daughter and her husband paid, for a very old three bedroom, two bath home on a postage stamp lot with one parking stall and precious little street parking, $3,400 a month.
BTW, I like to bug my Seattle friends about the property taxes on my place. 32 acres with two streams and a natural well, newer home and large barn and $565 a year in property taxes.
And when we reach 65 next year it will be closer to $350.
Our SS alone will come close to $44k, tax-free. I’ll still never come close to getting what I paid into it, but still...