&gt; Houses can be had for as low as 100k.<p>Can they?<p>I&#x27;m looking at Redfin right now, and they claim the average home price in Uptown, Minneapolis, MN right now is $600k.<p>There&#x27;s a few cheap 1 bedrooms apartments, but anything else is way in the realm of &quot;completely unaffordable to all but the extremely wealthy&quot;<p>I see lots of cheap housing in Minneapolis. But it&#x27;s all suburban in nature. (Either actually suburban, or &#x27;technically-inside-the-city&#x27; single-family homes that are effectively suburban.