Places to live - input please?

[MootWorm]

I understand that, I'm just really looking for averages. For example, a friend of mine lives in Tennessee, says you can find turnkey 2000sq ft 4 bedroom houses for an average of $120K. Not there. When we were looking to buy our house (almost 3 years ago), I could definitely find houses for under $100K, but nearly all of them were better off demolished than renovated. Decent houses were all over $100K, and finding a house with more than a quarter acre for less than $200K was even harder. Of course here it depends on location too, but averages are just that.

Oh yeah I definitely understand that. In IL, if you want to stick in/near the urban areas, you'd be hard pressed to find a home like that under 100, unless you want to live In the boonies lol. At least in the mid-state/Chicagoland area. Now in Phoenix or some other areas near here, you can easily find move-in condition houses for under 75k. A good deep clean and you're ready to roll! I'm pretty sure the markets picking up here, but I can't remember the exact percentages that I was reading. But both sales and prices are increasing as of now.