Brkdncr@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoProperty owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’www.fox19.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1424arrow-down112
arrow-up1412arrow-down1external-linkProperty owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’www.fox19.comBrkdncr@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square137fedilink
minus-squareSon_of_dad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down20·3 months ago$500k? Where I live that would be a cardboard box
minus-squaredogslayeggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoThat’s just the house, not the land. That’s also a very rural area of a rural island. There are very few high paying jobs on that island, and even fewer in that area. Everything else on the islands costs twice as much as you pay.
minus-squareSon_of_dad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYou’re right, where I live that wouldn’t even buy the land, let alone a box
$500k? Where I live that would be a cardboard box
That’s just the house, not the land. That’s also a very rural area of a rural island. There are very few high paying jobs on that island, and even fewer in that area. Everything else on the islands costs twice as much as you pay.
Found the hyperbole
You’re right, where I live that wouldn’t even buy the land, let alone a box