>>2631399Yeah, COL land prices and wages are all linked. There are definitely areas with better ratios: Midwest smaller metros in general, where well off farmers congregate for services, the service providers won't be impoverished either, and the metros small enough that you can always find land within a decent commute. Think Peoria or Cedar Rapids. But your home value will not appreciate, you'll miss out on $100ks of net worth lifetime, and your local metro might Rustbelt away on you leaving you with an unsellable house. If you build a house someplace no one else is, it means no one else will want to buy it off you when you finally get over the infatuation phase and want to move on.
$10-15k is also the norm from my research. Still way cheaper than ID or CO or such where $80-100k is the norm because everyone's buying vacation land there. But you're not in a fun gorgeous remote area. You're surrounded by corn, suy, and pig shit on a flat plain.
The South has terrible wages.
The remote Midwest is usually cold AF and wages are either trash due to it being poor farmland or at best you can make bank 3-4mo a year on tourists and be super busy the only time its actually nice to live there then have no money but all the time in the world when its a bitterly cold brown hellscape (think traverse city).
I'm guessing new england is the same?
The southwest is an option but its a fucking desert so, why...
