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re: Average Home Values for SEC Towns
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:07 am to AUTiger789
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:07 am to AUTiger789
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Surprised Athens isn’t higher on the list. You’d think a college town an hour from Atlanta would be a hot real estate market.
Go check out the real estate prices in downtown condos or a semi-nice house within 2 miles of campus and your jaw will drop.
The thing with Athens is that once you get a bit removed from the nice normal parts, it gets dumpy REAL quick. Like housing project/ghettos. I'm sure that the $750K+ gameday condos downtown are equalized out by the absolute garbage dumps a few miles down the road.
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:13 am to AUTiger789
The majority of Gainesville's wealth is located just outside of the city limits (to avoid the ridiculous extra city property taxes), to the SW part of town. If this included that area, this would be raised substantially to around the Austin home value averages.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:17 am to cdur86
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Well that's not true. Auburn has actually had some heinous crimes recently that is surprising for a town so small
Umm no…
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College Station, Auburn, Oxford, and Fayetteville are generally viewed as the safest SEC college towns.
* Baton Rouge consistently has one of the highest violent crime rates among SEC cities.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:19 am to AUTiger789
Auburn vs Tuscaloosa was surprising to see, from an outsiders perspective
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:20 am to AUTiger789
Damn, 500k....I would hope the average salary is much higher then average.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:23 am to TailbackU
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Umm no…
What do you mean "Ummm no?" I just provided two clear cut examples of there being crime. When you stated "No crime". Obviously that is incorrect
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College Station, Auburn, Oxford, and Fayetteville are generally viewed as the safest SEC college towns
I'm not saying those are bad towns, but to say Auburn is Mayberry is not realistic
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:24 am to TexasWranglers
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Same for Texas especially austin. Even the longhorn haters who remember austin in the late 90s know it was so much better and an actual cool city. Cali transplants ruined so much of what made it great
Agreed. Austin was a great/charming town 20-25 years ago. That charm has been destroyed. SXSW and ACL were cool grassroots events, not the corporate behemoths they are today.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:32 am to skrayper
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this is some kind of flex, I'm not following it.
More a sign of does your town have a ghetto side and how bad is it.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:33 am to skrayper
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Alabama fan
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If this is some kind of flex, I'm not following it.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:54 am to Gifman
sarcasm aside, I really do think the Oxford market is overvalued
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:24 pm to cdur86
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Auburn is Mayberry
Relative to other SEC towns it is. Extremely low riff raff factor, Hence the property values.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:25 pm to AUTiger789
Market is crashing here around Austin, this city actually did a good job of building after the pandemic.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:29 pm to rich4pres
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Knoxville and the surrounding area used to be a lot more affordable until the Californians got here.
This is what's happening in Pensacola
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:34 pm to skrayper
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If this is some kind of flex, I'm not following it.
He's saying Alabama and LSU are from places nobody wants to be...but ghetto poors.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:34 pm to cdur86
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Well that's not true. Auburn has actually had some heinous crimes recently that is surprising for a town so small
Zero crime is utopia, it just doesn't exist. That said, the perpetrators in both of your examples were from Montgomery. They just found opportunities while passing through Auburn. Both perpetrators should rot in hell.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:37 pm to borotiger
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That said, the perpetrators in both of your examples were from Montgomery
Why does Auburn get a pass from the general public when the perps are from a neighboring city/county but when individuals from Birmingham area create crime in Tuscaloosa UA gets a reputation of a crime ridden hellhole?
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:39 pm to cdur86
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Why does Auburn get a pass from the general public when the perps are from a neighboring city/county but when individuals from Birmingham area create crime in Tuscaloosa UA gets a reputation of a crime ridden hellhole?
I don't follow crime in Tuscaloosa so I don't know. I just know the details of these crimes in Auburn. I also never said there was no crime in Auburn.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:41 pm to borotiger
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I don't follow crime in Tuscaloosa so I don't know. I just know the details of these crimes in Auburn. I also never said there was no crime in Auburn.
Understood. Wasn't meant as a direct swipe at you. Just thinking out loud I guess.
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