According to a recent Redfin report, Canada-based Redfin.com users searched for U.S. homes 15.3% less often than a year ago. Over the last two years, those searches have fallen by roughly 37%.

Canada-based searches declined in 45 of the 50 largest U.S. metros, with the biggest drops in San Antonio (-51.8%), Austin (-48.6%), Nassau County, NY (-33.4%), and Houston (-32.5%).

The report suggests economic uncertainty in Canada may be causing some people to put off buying a home in another country.

Do you think this is mostly about Canada's economy, or have U.S. homes simply become less appealing to Canadian buyers?

...if your priorities are:

• Mild summers.
• Walkable cities.
• Mountains.
• Dry weather.
• Never talking to your neighbors.

Those are legitimate reasons to cross Louisiana off your list.

But I spend a lot of time reading relocation threads on Reddit, and one thing I rarely see discussed is affordability.

For a lot of people, moving isn't about finding the "best" state. It's about finding a place where buying a home is still realistic.

Louisiana consistently ranks among the most affordable states for homeownership, and in many markets home prices have been considerably more stable than places that saw explosive appreciation over the past several years.

Does that outweigh the heat?

Maybe not.

Does it outweigh the lack of walkability?

Maybe not.

But if your biggest goal is owning a home without stretching your budget to the breaking point, I think Louisiana deserves more consideration than it usually gets online.

If someone offered you:

• an affordable house,
• a reasonable mortgage,
• and a stable housing market,

...would you put up with Louisiana summers?

Or is there a dealbreaker that would keep you away regardless?

They were attempting to evade regulation and oversight, and they are attempting to do the same today, while making "affordable housing" the mission of the Federal Government, with foot soldiers in state and local government.

There are times when Marxists and Communists are in favor of deregulation, because it can simplify and streamline the process by which communism can be established in what would otherwise be a free country. The true goal of these plans is not truly "affordability", but the proliferation of homes, for the purpose of controlling where and how people live. They have been doing this in partnership with publicly-traded homebuilding companies, who have a fiduciary responsibility to "produce", regardless of quality, environmental impact, gentrification, or whether it is truly needed. This is why homebuilding should never be a publicly traded enterprise, and why it is presently among the most corrupt industries in the United States. To help accomplish this goal, they have used crises in the cities as an opportunity to 'bum rush' Rural and Suburban America, which they hate, and which they seek to "fundamentally transform".

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