[Auracle]

Good luck with that. My parents purchased 60 acres of beautiful land and built a very nice house on it. My dad was a construction worker and my mom was a part time school bus driver/eventually USPS worker.

My wife and I both have degrees. There's no way we could ever afford their place. The population has increased too much and space - even in rural areas - is finite.

[refurb]

My parents did the same.

Of course when they bought it was a podunk town and they bought on the edge of city limits.

Now it’s a city of 2M and their property is regarded as central.

Of course I couldn’t afford it.

But I could certainly buy on the edge of some podunk town today.

[MichaelZuo]

It is weird how the vast majority of commenters on HN ignore any adjustments for changes in quality in housing discussions.

Housing prices seem pretty inline with population growth after adjusting for location and building quality differences.