# What could the price of Bernie's house get in your neighborhood? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2016, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771 "2016-08-14T09:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/101 "2016-08-17T19:14:04Z")
In my neighborhood, I could buy four houses. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/102 "2016-08-17T19:18:52Z")
Bernie bought a vacation home on the water, so my neighborhood doesn’t compare. Besides, I’m a renter. Just south of here is Galveston Island. $600,000 will buy a [pretty nice place on the beach](http://www.robroysoldmine.com/-/ListingSearch/load_saved_search/?ss_id=5616151). Of course, a really good hurricane could turn these places (except for the condos–maybe) into piles of rubble. (The [hurricane drought](https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-drought-gulf-of-mexico) has let some people forget what the Gulf can do.) Lakefront property sounds like a safer investment. And didn’t some of the money come from Mrs Sanders selling an old family place? Did the Sanders fans who sacrificed to donate $27 _really_ take permanent vows of poverty? Or are they just pissed that their college education is still a giant debt instead of a ticket to upper middle class prosperity? Which includes stuff like vacation homes. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/103 "2016-08-17T21:51:18Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Wow, I can’t believe you found a house on Plum Island that cheap. When all those cottages got destroyed a few winters ago, the cheapest one was $850,000. Plum Island is like a lot of summer islands – lots of cottages were built years ago and are really basic and on small lots. Over the years, it’s become more upscale with larger and more elaborate houses. So you actually have a range of prices and $600K seems to be just slightly above the median. A $600K house is nothing to sneer at, but it’s certainly not in tiny-giraffe-owning Russian oligarch territory. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/104 "2016-08-18T00:59:30Z")
I want a tiny giraffe! If I had one, I’d giggle exactly like a Russian oligarch. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/105 "2016-08-18T02:19:22Z")
In San Francisco, you’d have to throw in another million to reach the 1.56 million it cost for [this](http://sf.curbed.com/2015/9/17/9920342/lake-district-mummy-house-sells-for-a-whopping-1-56m) complete tearer downer whose previous resident was a mummified corpse. And that was a year ago, before prices got crazier. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/106 "2016-08-18T17:16:24Z")
In San Luis Obispo, CA $600k will get you an older 3bed/2ba, around 1300 sf, on a 6,000-7,000 sqft lot. High demand and not much supply keep driving the prices up. Currently over 60% of the houses in town are rentals because most people wanting to live in town can’t afford to buy (also it’s a college town). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/107 "2016-08-19T15:09:21Z")
Put in my zip code and found [this.](http://realtracs.com/PropertyDetail.aspx?PropertyClass=RES&DMQL=(AreaID%3d%7c21%2c22%2c23%2c24%2c25%2c26%2c27%2c28%2c29%2c30%2c31%2c32)%2c(ListPrice%3d575000-650000)%2c(ListingStatusID%3d1)%2c(OfficeListIsActive%3d1)%2c(IsListedOnInternet%3d1)&AreaID=21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32&MlsNum=1729462&Digest=KbZZG6oRjAj8i755HsY6LQ) Built in 1829 by Charles Ready, who founded the town. Actually, this house was auctioned off for less than $200K not that long ago. It looks like the current owners have spruced it up and made it into a wedding venue. 5 acres (it had 20) on the river. StG ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771/108 "2016-08-20T15:41:19Z")
Ashiya, Japan. A three-bedroom apartment, which is what I got! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-price-of-bernies-house-get-in-your-neighborhood/762771.md?page=5)