21 sats \ 3 replies \ @chovyfubar 15 Oct 2023
how
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @tomlaies OP 15 Oct 2023
Good question. Housing markets are weird and often not like people expect.
My suspicion is that the homeoffice effect is still ongoing and people are still moving into cheaper rural areas. We don't talk about homeoffices that much anymore but more and more people doing that is inevitable.
Also notice how the percentage changes are actually pretty small (y-axis). Even if most people are very loudly complaining a small part of society can still move this statistic a lot.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies OP 15 Oct 2023
Also people are romanticizing the olden times.
The past was shit. The Simpsons-lifestyle was only available to few white families in few regions with big companies. And yet people think it was the lifestyle of everyone. It wasn't.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chovyfubar 15 Oct 2023
50 years ago we had a much larger middle class who could afford homes for the most part.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sb 15 Oct 2023
It looks like a steady state with very minor changes over time. My observation is that the rate hasn't recovered from the 2004 peak as of yet which is interesting
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