An example from Greenspun made lions ponder the reality of buying the absolute cheapest house.
https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/florida/orlando/eagle-lake/ranches-at-lake-mcleod/cottage-collection/kitson
It's pretty depressing in even the sales pitch, with just a garage, a small window for the facade & all wood. No-one even uses garages anymore. The price difference is so small, the owner would have to be extremely stretched to not go higher.
The next higher one is the $252k & has 2 front windows. That would be less depressing. Proximity to water causes the depressing one to cost more.
The top of the line in that subdivision is $353k & intended as a duplex.
The ADU & the 2 front windows are completely isolated through their own front door. Everything nowadays is designed to isolate the owners from the exterior & not be seen from outside.
Lions forget heroine palace was also a cave. Lions couldn't see the window from the desk or the bed. The view was manely remembered through camera experiments. Despite the limitations, that time still came up when lions longed for happier days.
The minimism of new houses shows quite the decline in buying power.
7/2026: Funny that the lion parents bought a copy of the exact same starter house for their 9th & final house. Only the floorplan was reworked slightly & the front window is even smaller.
The builder photographed them in front of a sign, as if it was their 1st house, a starter house as a reward for a long career at the age of 80. It was kind of sad to ponder how many animals treat buying such a house in their final years such a big win. Many animals call a mobile home their 1st house, but they don't hype it.
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In Titusville, the bearable ones are starting at $400k, all concrete with more front windows, less rear windows, at least the ones which aren't already blurred out.
James Cir, Figree Dr, Enclave Dr in Titusville are really posh & $400-$500k. Comparable homes in Newberry are similar priced. Lions are basically locked out of home ownership without the equity in the land.
Lion brother's $1.3M pad is 3 miles from everything including Harry Potter. It's really posh. No way lions are getting near that neighborhood, but who knows if he's staying there after retirement.
There are no tract houses with man cave floorplans. If there was a way to free up a romp room by replacing the inside walls with support columns or trusses, lions would do it. The mane problem in FL is the roof flying away instead of falling down.
The idea of waking up to an empty field came from ranches on Finley Rd. A really posh man cave with empty fields, sunset views would have to be built somewhere really hot, car dependent, far from the coast, probably in west TX or AZ. Nothing near the coast or in FL is attainable anymore. Therein lies the compromise with any man cave.
Jesus Heroine is probably going to a middle of nowhere ranch with her sister after they both retire.
Acoustic instruments & loud music are still attainable in a tract house with lots of renovation. Lions still miss the home theater sound from the old days, when the complex was all college students. That's something which is now only attainable in venues. It's a mystery why movie theaters are doing so badly if no-one can afford a suitable room.
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Meanwhile, rent continued to increase throughout the lease term.
The total amount is comparable to the base rent in Union City. That seems to be the low cost leader in commuting distance. It would no longer be economical to stay if the next job required commuting south. The key is retirement being close. Staying at the midpoint paid off when the jobs moved north or went away completely. Lions could probably leave after the next job.
The best way to find apartments in the last 4 years was watching gootubers & trying to sniff their location. Silicon valley recently became ground zero for a lot of gootubers, after being manely ignored for the previous 20 years.
From 2014-2020, there was an economic boom but everyone on gootube was in NY. Now there have decidedly been a lot of layoffs but everyone on gootube is in silicon valley. It may be they just switch to gootube when their jobs are in decline.
Sadly, no gootubers are old enough to be in cheap FL communities.
Rent seems to be exploding in Calif*, despite mass layoffs. Places in the city doubled to $7k after the recent wave of IPOs.
The money is concentrated in just 2 companies now. It was getting more concentrated in every boom since 1999. Now, it's just Anthropic & Xai. It also seems to be concentrating the rent increases in a smaller area. The endgame might be when lions can't afford the rent anymore.
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