And you live in an expensive part of Mass. You'd have to get out past Ashby to get away from the crazy prices.

For those dollars in 1980, you could have bought 1/2 home in the home my parents built where I grew up.

Where I live today, you can still buy that price under $100K home in 2016.

It's all about location, quality, size and lastly..... the when......

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'06 E320 CDI
'17 Corvette Stingray Vert

Yep D/FW has crazy low $/ft2

I had in 2003 a 3780 ft2 for $196k, $51/ft2, in Mansfield (SE Tarrant Co).
But it was built like a cardboard box and monkeys could have done a better job wiring it. Looked pretty on the inside, lots of fancy molding work and fairly high end kitchen, but what a joke otherwise.

The craziest thing was my escrow payment was higher than my P&I. Property tax was $6k/yr and insurance about $3k/yr.

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The OM 642/722.9 powered family
Still going strong
2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech

Don

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This was in Portland, OR where we bought a home for $40,000 in 1980, but we looked at homes in the area for as little as 24,000. Don

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