Colorado made no sense to me initially. Turns out that more than half the people (2.9 million out of 5.7 million) live in metro Denver which is booming. Add in a few resort towns and it makes perfect sense.
When making a similar quiz about home prices I discovered a pattern. Places with high population growth have higher prices. It's simple really. New construction is very expensive. That's why Colorado will be expensive until people stop moving there.
Yes. please stop moving here. I grew up here, but don't think I'll be able to afford to stay. Pretty rare to find an apt for under 1500 in the metro area.
Ive heard that, Texas is just as bad if not worse, have to chase snakes out of your house daily. Do not, I repeat, do not move here if you like living.
I've heard that, Florida is just as bad if not worse, have to chase crackheads out of your house daily. Do not, I repeat, do not move here if you like living.
I've heard that, Missouri is just as bad if not worse, have to chase robbers out of your house daily. Do not, I repeat, do not move here if you like living.
I've heard that, Ohio is just as bad if not worse, don't get to chase anything out of your house daily. Do not, I repeat, do not move here if you don't like boring.
I've heard that, Nevada is just as bad if not worse, have to chase Elvis impersonators out of your house daily. Do not, I repeat, do not move here if you like living.
Or rather, the states that left-leaning people want to live in. This of course isn't universally true, but most conservatives want nothing to do with urban areas.
If it were only so simple. The problem is, oftentimes because of progressive policies and regulation, the lack of housing directly relates to the inability of developers to build housing in certain areas or for under a certain cost. Much of the supply and demand is artificially generated. It's gotten so bad that in Portland, for instance, they passed a "Housing Regulatory Relief Program" in 2023 to grant waivers from some of these housing regulations that were choking off development. It's not as simple as just people want to live here and supply and demand.
Hawaii is not as left as everyone thinks it is. Part of the problem for the disparity in housing costs is that there simply isn't enough, and the most recent attempts at "affordable housing" in Honolulu have been bought up by Chinese and Russian oligarchs. ("Affordable" in Hawaii means a single-family, two bedroom condo that starts well north of $600k.) But in terms of policy, it's a pretty socially conservative place. Hence, Tulsi.
Use your brain. States with the biggest cities and alot of cities will have higer rent. Or states that have almost all of there population in cities. Louisiana dosent have as high of rent because besides new orleans and baton rouge there isnt much.
Interesting! Here in UK if you looked at counties with highest rent, the southeast and West Country would feature mainly I think... maybe the odd exception for certain cities elsewhere 🤔 Anyone want to make that one?
btw, the best way to fix this is to increase the supply of housing. And the biggest barrier to accomplishing that is overzealous zoning and other regulations that make it illegal or impossible to build dense housing where it is most demanded. NIMBYism is mostly to blame.
I don't know. I live in a densely-populated part of Chicago. New condos are shooting up on every corner, but rents keep climbing. There are just so many people moving here. I don't think zoning has much to do with it.
this is faaaar from true, even if a lot of houses are for rent in places like the central valley the three coastal cities dominate the rental market and would be at least $3000 average
2022 update: Lowest is West Virginia at $767/month.
NO ONE!! It's also very crowded. Scorpions crawl into your shoes at night. Rattlesnakes aren't too bad. Not many people die from their bite.
Oh, there's no water here either.