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Posted on 5/19/26 at 6:42 am to AUTiger789
They did have a bombing fairly recently, but no they are not worse than BR. They’re also not comparable cities population wise. Nashville will have more but they also have 10 times the people. Compare New Orleans to Nashville
Posted on 5/19/26 at 7:58 am to rich4pres
I’ll take the Buckeyes moving to Lexington over Californians. That isn’t because we like Buckeyes.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 10:23 am to KCM0Tiger
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Columbia is pretty nice.
My wife and I always talked about moving back to Como when we retire - it has consistently been listed as a great place to live/work/play and even retire. Healthcare is excellent. Schools are excellent (although this can change quickly). Parks are great. Relatively easy access to StL and KC airports (2 hrs), their own airport has flights to Dal, Chi, Denver (and soon Charlotte). Although, I will say my personal experience lately is there are some challenges (not unlike other places) with increased crime/violence and homeless population (unhoused/mental health for those that don't like the term homeless). Not sure current city leadership is handling that all too well.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 11:13 am to RTRnFlorida
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Auburn will have homes around 500k and 400k..
Bama has. Homes around 1.5m and 100k. Or 3m and 50k.
Ok. There are 22 active listings in the city of Auburn for single family homes or condos that have an asking price of $1.5 million or higher… the highest of which is asking $7.2 million.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 11:18 am to BigSneezy
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Now do expected take home pay. All costs are relative to average income. The net is close to the same.
But you’re probably smart enough to know this.
It’s not as straightforward as you want to think. If you divide the average home value by the median household income, you get a range of 3.4 up to 6.9. CoMo has the best home value to income ratio of 3.4. CoMo, then Norman, and then Tuscaloosa are the most affordable relative to incomes.
Nashville is actually in the middle of affordability when you factor income. The average home value in Nashville is equal to 5.6x the median Nashville household income. That 5.6 figure is also the average of all 16 SEC towns.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 11:42 am to AUTiger789
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$412,900- Auburn, AL
How much of that is driven by the Hyundai/Kia and associated companies along the 85 corridor?
Last few times through Kee County there were multiple billboards advertising real estate with most of the text in Korean.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 12:44 am to AUTiger789
We can all agree...housing prices have gotten fricking crazy now
Posted on 5/20/26 at 12:50 am to AUTiger789
ETA: Peak Auburn was Darnells, Denaros, and the Supper Club.
If you want to frick up a nice college town by bringing in a bunch of religious nut over breeders, then Auburn is definitely your final destination.
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 1:04 am
Posted on 5/20/26 at 5:45 am to Freight Joker
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I don’t know where the actual frick you are getting a home in Tuscaloosa for $228k.
In the past, many players got a home there for nothing, which skews the average down. See Trent Richardson.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 6:00 am to TexasWranglers
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. Cali transplants ruined so much of what made it great
Nah, Austin is the rare southern (well, southwestern) city that actually did it to themselves.
It has been a bastion of liberal failed policies for at LEAST 50 years. Austin attracted those losers from far and wide, and a big part of it was the policies pushed by the academia of the University, along with the respective politicians who were its true believers.
Yeah, it was accelerated by out of town miscreants drawn to that lifestyle, but Austin is 100% a product of its own homegrown bad ideas.
I think the cultural difference between A&M and Texas is truly the largest difference between two competitive rivals in the entire country.
Sadly, even A&M is now losing some of what made it great and slowly becoming just another large university with slow-growth wokism.
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 6:07 am
Posted on 5/20/26 at 6:47 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
Austin was very cool in the 1980s. I was a Freshman at UT in 1981. Hardly any high rise buildings downtown, and the state capitol building was viewable from almost all directions. Normal people, teachers, blue collar folks, cowboys, hippies could afford to live there. Lots of quirky local shops, restaurants, and businesses.
I remember seeing the Ramones, then Linda Ronstadt up close outdoors near (then) Town Lake during Austin Aqua Fest. Tickets were inexpensive. Great time to be in school…
Bought our first house when I was in grad school, in Westlake Hills, 2 bedrooms on a big wooded lot. Paid $125K. Those days are long gone, ha…
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Posted on 5/20/26 at 7:09 am to AUTiger789
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There are 22 active listings in the city of Auburn for single family homes or condos that have an asking price of $1.5 million or higher
What reason would anyone have to pay anything near that for a condo in Auburn?
I wouldn't pay that for a good sized one at the beach.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 7:26 am to AUTiger789
I know there are SEC schools in the cities, but I have a hard time calling Austin and Nashville "SEC towns". There are some other factors driving home values. That's like calling Seattle a college town because UW is there.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 7:28 am to Freight Joker
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I don’t know where the actual frick you are getting a home in Tuscaloosa for $228k.
Agree. I didn't know it was possible to spend that much on a single wide
Posted on 5/20/26 at 7:40 am to Dawgs2122
Everyone is still moving to Austin
Yall need to do a better job critiquing the city!
its FULL!
Yall need to do a better job critiquing the city!
its FULL!
Posted on 5/20/26 at 7:54 am to AUTiger789
If I owned houses in both Tuscaloosa and Hell, I would choose to live in Hell and rent out the house in Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:10 am to Rip N Lip
"Religious nut over breeders"? Who are you referencing?
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:25 am to VFL67
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Transplants have ruined TN
They've done the same to Northwest Arkansas.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:29 am to Arkapigdiesel
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Not that long ago Fayetteville would have been towards the bottom of the list. The growth of NW Arkansas is almost Borg like "You will be assimilated
Nowhere near campus is that cheap. I was checking Zillow the whole time we visited Arkansas and everything was 500k plus within walkable distance.
My buddy built a starter home 5 years ago and has been renting it out since his kids graduated. He’s crushing it and wanting to build another one. It’s about 10 minutes from campus
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