Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world · 1か月前Gonna start calling my HOA the "Romulan Senate" because the similarities are striking.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down13
arrow-up1262arrow-down1imageGonna start calling my HOA the "Romulan Senate" because the similarities are striking.startrek.websiteIced Raktajino@startrek.website to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world · 1か月前message-square51fedilink
minus-squareHudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1か月前What I still don’t understand is why American house prices depend so much on what their neighbors’ houses look like. Where I live, even a fully abandoned broken down house with one meter high wild grass is not bad enough to devalue its neighbor.
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1か月前Because the value of the community plays a role in the price and there is a significant variability in neighborhood “value” within cities. A lot of it is tied to crime rates, but there may also be class signifiers which affect valuation.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1か月前It’s not about colour. It’s about signalling this neighborhood has “the right kind” of people.
What I still don’t understand is why American house prices depend so much on what their neighbors’ houses look like.
Where I live, even a fully abandoned broken down house with one meter high wild grass is not bad enough to devalue its neighbor.
Because the value of the community plays a role in the price and there is a significant variability in neighborhood “value” within cities. A lot of it is tied to crime rates, but there may also be class signifiers which affect valuation.
It’s not about colour. It’s about signalling this neighborhood has “the right kind” of people.