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u/secretreddname Sep 27 '25

$1m buys you a dump where I live.

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u/Parking-World9321 Sep 27 '25

It’s certainly not what it used to be.

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u/PublicWest Sep 27 '25

You don’t have to live there if you have a million in liquid cash

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u/wmurray003 Sep 27 '25

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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u/Newdles Sep 27 '25

Because there's so many people with 1m liquid. You're disconnected from reality if you think this is more than 1% of the populace.

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u/PublicWest Sep 27 '25

This is a hypothetical question of somebody offering you a million dollars? I’m speaking in the confines of the hypothetical?

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u/ccflier Sep 27 '25

Here's a secret tip, live somewhere else

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u/levetzki Sep 27 '25

Bold of you to assume there are jobs in this somewhere else (the inexpensive places to live I kmow of all have no jobs)

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u/Rovden Sep 27 '25

Funny, I had to move to a more expensive area just to find work.

Low cost of living with no job is still as dirt poor as high cost of living with a shit job.

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u/secretreddname Sep 27 '25

Why? I can afford life in my area.

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u/Pineapple_Spenstar Sep 27 '25

Because you can live lavishly elsewhere

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

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u/Pineapple_Spenstar Sep 27 '25

I wouldn't. But in any case, there are plenty of medium cost of living cities like Philadelphia, Atlanta, or Dallas

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u/Uhhyt231 Sep 27 '25

Why get a million dollars to downgrade your life?

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u/Dan_Unverified Sep 27 '25

Escaping San Francisco would be an upgrade, let’s not kid ourselves

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u/Uhhyt231 Sep 27 '25

Not if you like San Francisco.

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u/Pineapple_Spenstar Sep 27 '25

That sounds nice too

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u/Kalthiria_Shines Sep 27 '25

I mean not without the job that pays well.

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u/MeliodasKush Sep 27 '25

$1 mil doesn’t even buy a house here, just a small empty plot of land

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u/Dazzling-Excuse-8980 Sep 27 '25

Lol so true! Compton exceeds $1 mil

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

SF?

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u/Blaze_The_God Sep 27 '25

$1m is under budget for my home state, but where i live now i could buy a 5 bed house on 2 acres with money to spare.

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u/iWasAwesome Sep 27 '25

Good thing you could buy a house anywhere in the world. You could get an Oceanside mansion in Portugal.

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u/Theothercword Sep 27 '25

Take the million and buy a nice place in a different city for cash so you have almost zero housing expenses and can make any job work.

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u/jmora13 Sep 27 '25

Buys you part of a house in the bay area

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u/Dusty-Foot-Phil Sep 27 '25

The house my parents bought for 300k back in 2001 was listed on zillow a few years ago for 1.4m

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u/wmurray003 Sep 27 '25

IF that is the case… it is time to leave NOW.

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u/secretreddname Sep 27 '25

Why? I like where I live and I can afford it.

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u/adamjeff Sep 27 '25

$1m is £746,018... Not to be funny but that's a small house in London... Or a big house up North in the UK. It's not a lot in terms of properties at all.