I live on a 3 acre wooded lot on a large lake in Georgia. My trail cameras capture photos of deer, foxes, raccoons and turtles every night! I am a country girl and I do not mind driving 40 minutes to get to a major shopping area! No HOA fees. My land was 40k and my new house was 350k and it’s absolutely beautiful. Haven’t heard any banjos yet lol.
Deer are aggressive and like to eat things people grow for decoration, and for food, especially herb gardens. They are best outside your property. Squirrels are massive thieves who will devastate a vegetable garden. If you have a neighbor who likes to give them cacheable treats (looking at you, Bob) like peanuts, they will bury them everywhere. We had to plant cactus in our planters and give up on pretty flowers. If it wasn’t for the smell, skunks make decent yardmates. Opossums don’t look pretty, but they take care of pests. Plus, they are immune to rabies. Raccoons get a bad rap in areas where there is not a lot of natural food sources. Ours just use our fence line as a highway and don’t bother the garbage cans. But they will kill housecats.
Depends on the wildlife. Here, it could be a mountain lion, or a bear, an angry moose, a rattle snake, etc. But the scariest wildlife for me was seeing dead alligators as road kill on a Florida highway, or maybe they weren't dead..🤔 And ghost crabs on the beach, lol.
I've read many a garden article about city people who moved to the country, and loved the deer. For a few months - and then spent lots of time and money learning how to keep deer out of their yard.
I almost fell off my chair laughing, quote 'nothing, nothing in American movies is good in the woods" The best years of my childhood was spent exploring all day in the woods.
I spent many years of my childhood in a house on a dirt (sand) road surrounded by tall pine trees on the NC coast. Other than fire ants, large spiders, and sandspurs, nothing bad ever happened there.
Millie would hate my place. 5 bedroom 3 bath, 1920 craftsman/farmhouse. 90% of everything in the house is 50s and older. It even has a great 1956 pink electric stove. Every room has a view of mountains all around, and even an occasional heard of turkeys pass through
During Covid lockdowns, people in apartments went nuts staying inside. Meanwhile, I could walk all around my house and go outside, front or back and wave at neighbors walking by and exercise outside, not on a balcony. And I have a garage for my 2 cars and a workshop. Only cost $300k and I am minutes from anything. Give me a house any day over apartments.
It's definitely preference, I prefer a large apartment to a home. My old apartment had a laundry room in the basement, met a lot of interesting people there and they all lived in my building so it's a bit like a dorm situation where you can meet new friends easily to hang out with. Excluding lockdown obviously, but we're passed that. I've also lived in a home and while getting friendly can happen, it's very different since you're not spending a lot of time interacting like in an elevator. Waving at a neighbor as you go from your car in the driveway to inside your home isn't exactly quality chat time.
Indeed! 2020 sucked otherwise but at least I had a big fenced backyard, a pool to cool off, a sizable vegetable patch, and a grassy lawn to toss the tennis ball around with my dog. I wasn’t working so the months cooped up inside might have driven me crazy. I never got Covid and the backyard saved my sanity.
@@alexs1640 Absolutely agree. If you are single or in college apartments make more sense.. Moving in and out is a nightmare and landlords raise rents (New York is showing 40% increases). That said neighborhoods vary. We usually know most of our neighbors. I spent too many years in hotel rooms that I just don't like the box and elevators anymore.
I live in the Appalachian mountains. You'd get a massive home here in Southwest Virginia for a million. The view from my backyard tends to have deer, wild turkey, birds, and the occasional black bear. Being ever changing, it isn't boring!
I live in Las Vegas and once you are away from the strip it's like any other city, I actually haven't been to the strip or downtown in 3 years. That's for tourists.
What they're not telling you is those million-dollar apartments come with a 1000, up to $3,000 per month fee. They call it a maintenance fee or something like that. That's three grand a month on top of the million dollars.
@@fluffylittlebear not really. I could technically afford it, but would never do it with those kind of fees. I'd rather buy a million dollar house and pay no fees monthly.
@@fluffylittlebear $3,000 would be half your mortgage payment. It ISN'T peanuts. Also, if you just sold your $600,000 dollar home and bought this, your mortgage payment would only be $2,500 so that is more than your house payment. WEALTH is NOT income.
There is a regular show on the HGTV network called My Lottery Dreamhouse where the host finds 3 different homes for the lotto winners and most are a lot below a million dollars. Also, consider if you are in an apartment or condo, you will have to wait for elevators (if they work), parking space usually cost extra and Condos come with very pricey yearly fees for maintenance so the costis much higher than they claim. LasVegas is not just the strip. They have colleges, a NFL football team and it is a very modern city.
As a city boy, I can agree with her. The unknown of the forest definitely scares me. If you were killed, they wouldn't find your body for a long time... I imagine it's the same in the opposite sense, a lot of people who liked the quiet of the woods are scared as soon as they step into a major city, they are going to get stabbed. Bad stuff happens in both, but you're not scared of what you grew up around
Concierge are for your basic package security (porch pirates, although it can still happen between apartment tenants), and general building monitoring where they call the building security. In Seattle, my building has 24 hour security and cops on the neighborhood beat (although in Seattle they are pretty useless). Concierge basically are similar to welcome desk hosts in fancy hotels. A view is important for city living, and having big windows is even more important (You do NOT want small viewless windows, trust me I did that for a few years), You can really feel claustrophobic in the city. If you have a view of the city, you can people watch or see the fourth of July firework show or New Years Eve. In Seattle you can see the seasons change from a green summer, to a golden and red autumn, to a white dark winter with Christmas lights, to a pink and white blooming spring. For two people a 4-6 bedroom house is a bit big, My parents had one that was just too big for the two of them and they slightly downscaled. But a 3 bedroom suburban house for you might be best with a decent distance from any road and a office for editing might be more your speed. The woods are usually peaceful and calming, unless you go looking for trouble. There are places in the woods you don't want to go, like in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where there is some crazy woods people with guns and/or drugs. But in residential areas the woods are very safe aside from the occasional big wildlife. Most woods in millionaire suburban lots are paved with bike and walking paths and are pretty domesticated.
no one tell Millie, concierge isnt the same as security. there was a woman beaten right in front of a building door in NYC, the building concierge just watched not wanting to get entangled into legalities. 🤦♂
I will say, if you have a proper view, you don't get tired of it. :) I got my place because of the view. I can see the Colorado river, the lake, and hundreds of miles into the desert. Been here for 7-years and it never gets old. Each sunset is it's own art. :P But, I wouldn't pay even half a million for where I am.
Lol! I have woods on my property, lots of good stuff there. And since these idiots only went to the 2 coasts, I'm in Oklahoma, have a 3 bed, 2 livingroom, kitchen dining, 2 full baths, lots of beautiful built-in shelves/cabinets, laundry room, 2 car garage, fireplace, brick, back deck, front patio, and 2.5 acres of gardens. Cost of property was under 200k.
"With a crime rate of 63 per one thousand residents, Baltimore has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 16."
I take back that statement about living with our house backed up to the woods. We had a peeping Tom last year looked through our deck door. The raccoon was even wearing a mask.
You can move to nc and live in a smallish town . For less than 170k Ive got a 4 bed room 2 3/4 bath 2 story home 3,800 sqr ft appraised at 185,000 dollars. With complete concrete drive and large backyard with a pecan tree . City hall and library ob the same block . With city music concert every month during the summer. And that is within 80 miles of Charlotte Nc . And 120 miles from Wilmington Nc and the beach.
I love it when architect James makes his appearances. "Well you can change the front door..." and "It's not much different to that last one we just seen ... it isn't."
Having a forest near your house is absolutely gorgeous. I nice peaceful walk away from society when you need to clear your mind that doesn't require you driving anywhere.
LOL When you said you didn't like the trees at the back of the house I knew where you were going, and then you said it, "Nothing in American movies is good in the woods." LMAO priceless. And I think you're right. :)
Lol! Millie's dream house looks identical to the home I just sold and moved out of in Colorado. Color and all! It was way too big for my wife, dog and myself but it was nice! We bought it for $365k and sold for $900k 14 years later.
People actually love living in Vegas because there is tons of high paying jobs in casinos and the oil and IT industry, and the houses, especially in the suburbs are super cheap since it costs very little to build a new house in the desert.
I'm not from Vegas, but I do live in a city with a massive tourist industry. Locals generally just avoid those areas at all costs if they can. The only time I go to them is if I have family or friends in town. I imagine its similar for those who live in the 'real' parts of Vegas.
that’s accurate, as someone who is from Vegas… Locals don’t go to the strip, the closest we get is downtown or the arts district and i think this guy was only talking about vegas city… the metropolitan area of Vegas is much larger than the city itself… 1 million can get you a really nice 3-5 bed house in one of the suburbs
As a Las Vegas resident. This is accurate, people only go to the strip if they work somewhere on the strip, or have people in town as you said. Or if there’s an event there that you want to go to.
For that pic Millie showed, that kind of house is very common in pretty much any kind of suburban area. $1 million will buy you every bit of that, and probably a little more in a place like West Des Moines, Iowa for example. West Des Moines has a relatively high cost of living for a state like Iowa, but most of the Midwest is extremely low cost of living (Chicago notwithstanding). West Des Moines’ cost of living is still well below that of Baltimore/DC, Chicago, LA, or NYC by a long shot.
My wife and I lived in WDM for awhile and you're definitely accurate about the cost of living. I was flabbergasted by the cost of living especially around Jordan Creek
I’ve lived in Las Vegas for 10 years. It’s great. There is so much to do here outside of The Strip, which most of us do not go to except for some sort of event (concerts, hockey, etc) or for work. Otherwise we avoid those spots like the plague. It’s also great to be in a city where nothing closes. You want sushi at 4am, cool plenty of sushi places open. Work overnight and want a drink after work, bars at 24 hours. A lot of outdoor activities including mountain hiking, water sports and even winter sports with a ski resort 45mins away. Don’t judge us off what you see in movies.
Millie, you like what you like. BUT… keep in mind, that most people who make movies about scary things happening in the woods or small towns grew up in the city. They have no knowledge of the country and it scares them. As someone who grew up in the Idaho mountains, there’s nothing scary there. There’s more to fear from crime in the city.
@@christineperez7562 another stat if you look at what those states and the cities in them where most murders happen have in common is whites are a minority in those high crime areas. Don't shoot the messenger, you can look up the stats and demographics yourself.
Property values are wildly different here in the states. I grew up in Knoxville, TN. In 1995, my parents bought a 2200sqft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 story brick colonial with a massive pool, 2-car garage, and a huge yard (garden) for 118k. My dad's bosses at the corporate office in New Jersey were bewildered because the same amount in 1995 would have bought them a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment where they lived in NJ. The same house is now worth approximately 273K in 2022. You could literally buy 3 of my parents' home for what you get a single bedroom apartment in NYC for. That would be a total of 12 bedrooms and about 3.5x the square footage with money to spare, versus 1 bedroom 660sqft. It is so inconsistent it's crazy. A million dollars in 2022 in Knoxville can get you brand new lakefront homes with 5 or 6 bedrooms, boat dock, between 4,000 and 7,000 sqft, and a 3-car garage in gated communities where the HOA fee includes your landscaping, trash pickup, and club membership. There is currently a house on the market here that is asking 2mil and it has over 14,000 sqft of space and 8 bedrooms and sits on several acres of land.
@Chris V. My dad's bosses had never left New Jersey and were aware that housing varied geographically, but not that dramatically. I mentioned NYC only to make the point that such a stark contrast in the housing market exists within the same country. I did not say Knoxville is like NYC. If Knoxville was as developed and crowded as NYC, then the property values wouldn't be so drastically different. I think you missed the point. And you've clearly never been here, huh? 🤣 Obviously Knox is not NYC. NOWHERE is like NYC. Nothing even remotely compares. But for a southern city, Knox is respectably organized and not the podunk backwoods town that you're describing it to be. Please allow me to paint you a picture of what the city actually is. Our airport is among the 3 major airports in the state. In 2019, we had the highest rate of restaurants per capita in the US, and there are so many craft breweries that I can't keep track of them. Knox is on an international waterway, the intersection of 3 major highways, and a freight train line. Knox is home to a big university, which includes the 5th largest athletic stadium in the US, Neyland Stadium. Every few years there is a new public school built because the school system keeps running over capacity in the existing 91 buildings. There are 22 hospitals in the metro area. Most pro sports in TN choose Nashville because it is centrally located in the state and it is only a 2 hr drive from Knox. We do, however, have pro sports teams here in town. We have a pro hockey team and a minor league baseball team. We had a pro football team for a bit, too, but it couldn't compete with the fanfare and ticket sales of college football in the same city. The city is planning to break ground in 2024 to build a new baseball stadium that contains shopping, restaurants, and luxury housing within it. Knoxville is the home of the Discovery television group headquarters and the lead office of the TVA. We have multicultural celebrations/festivals year round and there are multiple art museums. Knox has a city symphony and city opera. Until it got to be too expensive, Knoxville hosted a free Labor Day firework celebration, called Boomsday, that tourists would drive hours to Knoxville to see. Knoxville has hosted a World's Fair. Nowhere is like NYC and I would never dream of comparing the two. But like I said, you've clearly never been here if you think Knoxville is a small podunk town with a dozen restaurants, no sports teams, and, an airport that goes nowhere. It's fine if you hate Tennessee, but at least give the state credit for what exists within it. The reason Knoxville's property values are so comparatively low are: 1. The whole city and metro area sits on top of limestone caverns that make the ground susceptible to sinkholes when it rains. 2. The city and metro area run along the river. If the TVA dams should fail for some reason, the city is in the Tennessee Valley flood zone. 3. Close proximity to Oak Ridge deters people from moving here. It freaks them out.
Baltimore is 2-3 hours away from New York, Philadelphia and DC, so you can do weekend road trips as well as having the mansion too so that's a bonus however there are some parts of it that are pretty rough
First, NOTHING in American movies that is scary about the woods is an accurate representation of the American woods. At least not right behind your house. You'd probably never see anything but birds, deer, and squirrels. I took a look, and prices have definitely gone up, but you can quite easily find nice homes in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of north central Texas that are around 1,500 - 2,500 square feet for like 300K - 500K. The ones closer to the major cities, or exclusive neighborhoods are of course going to be more money for less house. For a million, even a few miles from the really exclusive neighborhoods you can get a seriously nice place on a decent chunk of land.
@@lesterstone8595 I'll be honest, the first thing it made me think of was reading The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings as a kid. I was always confused by the seemingly irrational fear of forests, and thought maybe it was just an English thing.
There are places all over America where you can buy a really nice house for $250K. I bought a 100+ year-old house in a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania suburb for
Where I'm at in SC our house is a three bedroom, 2 bath, living/dinning/kitchen open floor plan. A huge back yard, a good size front yard and 10 minutes from anything and everything. All for less than $150,000. A million dollar home here you'd need a family of 20 plus maids, cooks etc. They're just too big for "normal" families around here. If I had a million I'd spend it on other things.
So I actually live in a colonial style house, but it has a large three car garage attached to the side and has everything you would want in a American dream house. Indoor gym, beautiful swimming pool and hot tub, large yard, front and back, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, game/theatre room, study room, home office, large kitchen, family room, mud room, office entrance room, foyer, pool table room, laundry room, sitting room, and a closet room attached to the master bedroom. Really everything you could want and colonial style houses are the best since they are built out of bricks and not pure wood, meaning they are built to last much longer than any ordinary plain wood house. But my neighbors house looks just like the dream house you want which is pretty insane. Only two single garages though, so if you want more than 2 cars, you’d have to park on the street or in the driveway.
I live on a four acre piece of of property with woods behind us. So far monsters have not come out of the woods wielding chainsaws like someone did say above we have seen deer and turkey. Nothing to be scared of.
Las Vegas is a great place to live (as a resident myself) and the whole metro area has about 2.2 million people also it’s not all that crazy(as long as u don’t go to the touristy areas)
It's the same for most tourist cities. My brother moved to Miami, drawn by the allure of spending countless days on beaches. He's been there for 10 years and he recently told me that he's been to a beach or South Beach maybe a grand total of 20 times.
I would live in Winnetka, Illinois just 20 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan. Very very safe with great schools and homes. Winters can be interesting, but summers make it worth it. Millie would do well here. "Home Alone" movie was filmed here. So start saving your money before you have kids.
FYI: Just about everywhere half an hour away from San Francisco is really expensive as well. That comment about moving half an hour away to a much larger place for a million dollars and visiting SF from time to time made me laugh because it cannot be done. Most of the people who want to live in the Bay Area don’t want to live specifically in San Francisco but somewhere nearby.
I know this vid specifically is about $1 million. But here in my home state, WA, there's a regional difference for real-estate. A $2 million dollar house is up for sale in the second largest city. 4 floors, a pool, 2 car garage, on about 1 - 1.5 acres. Across the street from a park. In a town closer to Seattle, not in Seattle, there's an 18 acre house designed to resemble a small castle. It has a dry moat with a real drawbridge. And two dragon sculptures made by someone in Sweden.
I grew up in a wooded area, with a 50 acre park with nothing but horse trails. Never saw anything bigger than a squirrel. I live near woods. the most common wild animal were coyotes (good for controlling rabbits) - which we've hardly seen in years.
They are concentrating on apartments in the middle of the largest cities. But as you said, if you go outside of the central part of the city, you can get a lot more for your money. One million will get you a beautiful home in just about any part of the country, except place like the middle of New York and San Francisco. :) As for Las Vegas, it's not for me. I went there once a few years ago. I was driving across the country from New Jersey to California, and I had to pick places to stop each night. I picked Las Vegas for one night, just because I was curious about it. And there are normal neighborhoods in Las Vegas that have nothing to do with The Strip and the casinos. But it's still not a place I would enjoy living. With regard to the Baltimore house and "crime," you're not going to find a lot of crime in the type of neighborhood where you would find a handsome Federal style home and garden like the one in the video. Millie's dream house really does look very much like that one at the edge of the woods in Alabama. :)
Millie, I grew up in New England, I’ve spent my summers in the mountains in Maine and New Hampshire. the woods are not even close to being scary lol, American movies are seriously exaggerated 😁
Those prices seem off and old. They also missed a lot of great states and areas in the US. Also I wouldn't live in Baltimore even if that million dollar house was free. Too much crime. Lol
Someone probably already mentioned this, but don't forget that in condos or apartments, you still have to pay monthly maintenance fees that can be more money then your mortgage. Also, I live in a home that is not in any wildlife area but close. We have a fenced yard that is about 1/3 of an acre and we get racoons, skunks, wild turkeys, peacocks, chickens, owls, doves etc. that will stroll through the yard. Our fence doesn't have any holes in it either. We also hear coyotes almost every early morning. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
I don't know how old the video is but I can definitely tell you that the information on California properties is waaaaay off. No way can you buy what he said you could for 1 million.
The “spacious unit” in San Francisco (4:47) is a building I’m currently re-engineering. They have leaks throughout the entirety of the building, electrical isn’t to code and wasn’t in 1966 when it was built. The property management group just gave our company 6.2M to fix these problems. Personally, I wouldn’t pay more than a $1,500 monthly to live there, let alone the $1-1.5M asking price for per unit they are looking for.
Millie's dream house looks like my next door neighbor's house, sitting on 5 acres of wooded property. You have definitely watched the wrong movies. Most of the crime happens in the big cities, not in the woods.
I love the country..having a house on my own property to have a garden and privacy. I live in Ohio and I like the country feel. Apartments always made me nervous for fire reasons.. if one goes up..possibly they all go up.
We have some VERY large and Very nice houses in my town, and none list for more than $500,000. We are 45 minutes south of Houston, and 10 minutes from the beach. Nothing in town is more than 10 minutes away. Love it.
The largest house in the city I'm from sold for $750,000 a few years ago it had 11 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a 2 lane bowling alley, theater, weight room, and sat on 20 acres. The prices people pay to live in major cities makes absolutely no sense to me
@@osheherring that's crazy that there are no hones more expensive there then, I live in little Chattanooga Tennessee near the southern Appalachian mountains, some of the poorest places in the country are near here. You can't get a little townhouse I. The city for u der 250k and they go downtown condos or townhouse could go over a million. A mansion on one of the rich mountaintop communities could go up to 10 million plus, but that like people that own Little Debbie or wealth from the first Coca-Cola bottling company. Old Money
@@HBC423 it could be a population thing too, you guys have over 180,000 people so demand is high which raises prices. We only have a little over 70,000 people and 70% of the population could never even afford to buy a home
@@osheherring we were the first city in the country to get fiber optic internet put in with 1Gig speeds, now we're 10Gig speeds, that attracted some tech companies, Volkswagen moved here, a lot of outdoor magazines and websites named us the best city for outdoor activities with all the rivers, cliffs mountain streams, and natural beauty, so that attracted a lot of rich granola type yuppies and gentrification went into overdrive, it's became ridiculously expensive, the giant mansions were always there though because of old money.
Omg, Murrieta is a hellhole in the middle of nowhere, and I laughed aloud when they said LA is an hour away. It's 2 hours at least and double that during rush hours, or if you want to go to the West side.
@12:39 - "Nothing in American movies...in the woods, is good." LMAO! Oh Millie is so adorable. :) I see how she can come to that conclusion. (Still lol'ing a little...)
The house Millie showed on her phone is similar to a lot of Midwestern houses in developments. Typically $300,000-$500,000. We have a few new ones that popped up in Texas, and I guess they went for about $350k each.
10:00. I work in Boston, Massachusetts, but I live 30 minutes north of Boston. The North Shore of Massachusetts is where MANY people that work in Boston live. I live in a house that is $750,000 house in Amesbury, MA that has 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bath, with an acre of land behind my house that serves as a backyard and garden. I am also 10 minutes from Salisbury Beach State Park in Massachusetts and 15 minutes from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. The best bargains for housing in the US are 20-30 minutes outside of the major cities!
Millie is too funny! I like your practicality in this James. I would like to be a fly on the wall, so to speak, watching the two of you try to buy a house. We could become good friends as I think it would take you a very long time to find the house that you could both agree on... Thanks for sharing.
4 hours into the country from NYC would be able to get a nice 5 bedroom 5 full baths + a half guest bath for guests. ,a great kitchen,,etc and a 3 car garage.
In my town a million can get you a huge old 5,00 sq ft, 6-7 bed 5 bath, house on a good sized lot within walking distance of a really nice park. Or a fairly new McMansion on the outskirts of town in walking distance of a corn field.
My home is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with living room, kitchen and dining room. It is worth less than $200,000 - $250,000 according to tax records. I have a large backyard and front yard. This is found in the Texas Panhandle.
So this is like 9 of the most expensive places to live in the US plus some random place in Alabama. For $1 million, you can get a large home with lots of acreage in the Midwest or Mountain West in a nicer community that's not too far from a major city.
A lot of people who work in nyc don’t live there. A lot of people live in ct. towns like Greenwich Fairfield and Stamford are popular. It’s a cheaper for them. I have delivered to loads of people. They work in the city and take a train home. The ones I would deliver to the most we became Acquaintances. They would bring me home pizzas cannolis everything lol. One of them took me to a Celtics knicks game bc I went back down on the weekend to help them put together there 6 beds they bought. It was amazing def worth the 2 hr drive lol.
The people who live in Las Vegas Nevada tend to stay away from the strip and they tend to go to either Fremont Street for entertainment or the other casinos that aren't on the Las Vegas Strip. When you go to Las Vegas some of the casinos/ hotels that are off the strip have shuttles that run to the strip so you can see the strip without having to drive to it. One of those casinos is called Sam's Town and it's on the east side of Las Vegas they're fairly reasonable for their rooms and they have a shuttle that runs to the strip that dropped you off at one end then like 3 or 4 hours later they pick you up at the other end of the strip.
The woods are a wonderful, peaceful place, with streams, trees, deer, wild turkey and all sorts of small animals. We live 60 miles south of Nashville, Tn and got a 1700 sq foot home with 1.3 acres for less than 300K. It all depends on where you live, how much you pay. Of the cities mentioned, I would not want to live in any of them. I have been to several on vacation, that was enough.
There is more to Vegas than the Strip and some of the darkest skies in the west are an hour north. of course it is sparse which is why the US government owns vast swatches of the state.
@Mille, the house sits on a plot of land. Do the math, if you carved out that much land, from anywhere in Jersey, you'd be sittin' pretty...with a nice house.
5:45. San Francisco is basically connected to Silicon Valley so people definitely live there for the opportunities not just the views, etc. In fact, it’s largely because of so many silicon millionaires and other high paid workers living there that it’s so expensive. And even 30 40 minutes from the city it’s still going to be very expensive.
Millie, I my town in the central part of Georgia in the Southeast, you can buy your dream house for less than 500 thousand US dollars. Less than 3 hours to the mountains or 3 hours to the beach.
guys, i looked on a realator website, seen for $1.3 million a 4 bedroom 10 acre plus log cabin that's 2,400 square feet. Millie's dream home roughly is around $700k in southwestern Virginia.
Loved the video as well as your reactions to the homes shown. I'd never put the entire price down upon buying. 20% down payment, a decent mortgage - I'll bank and invest the rest. We live in NYC, born and bred, outside of Manhattan and couldn't care less about museums, Broadway and Times Square or being "in the middle of the action". We'll get about $700/750K for our present home and are looking to Eastern Pennsylvania for our new place. About $200/225K for the house ... any more $ and the place would be way too big! About an acre or two of land surrounded by trees, not too far from the nearest house, but not on top of each other either, single story, open plan layout, full basement and garage, fireplaces/wood stoves. Low taxes, as well - we pay $6000 here, now. We'll be satisfied enough with a view of trees and animals and lightning bugs in the backyard ... and maybe only the occasional monster or so hiding behind the odd tree!
I didn't notice there being any houses in the Midwest. Home Alone house is in the suburban Chicago area, as is the Risky Business and Ferris Buehler house. Mainly because that's where John Hughes was from. So was I. Until I moved to western North Carolina - we have trees, creeks and animals. I live near the forest. And, even here, a million doesn't go as far as it used to. Trees are okay.
I like how they just ignore an entire region of the country populated with about 75 million people and the 3rd largest city in the country. I like it. Keep it that way. Cost of living is low here and we don't have water shortages, wildfires, or hurricanes and the northern part of the region really doesn't have any natural disasters at all unless you count blizzards.
Several acres in beautiful pine woods in Mobile county Alabama with a nice little cabin and only an hour or so drive away from the beautiful gulf of mexico and dauphine island.
You're correct about Las Vegas seeing a lot of turnaround, at least in the central parts of the city. Some areas have rental turnover rates as high as 40% per year, although it's a more normal 2-5% in the suburbs. The really crazy statistic, though, is that Vegas casinos have a staff turnover rate around 110% per year. Yes, you read that correctly. They have a small number of long-term staff but most front-line workers last 6 - 8 months.
I own a 1801 sq. ft. Condominium in the East Bay of San Francisco. Ground level is 2 car tandem garage with a mud room and storage closet on same level. 1st level is the foyer, 2nd level has dining rm, living rm, large kitchen, 1/2 bath and master bedroom w/ ensuite bathroom with a balcony off of the 2nd level , 3rd level has master bedroom w/ensuite bathroom, laundry room and loft. (both bedrooms have walk in closets). Purchase price in these crazy times @ $825k. I also own a house in a suburb of South Carolina. Just over 2400 sq. ft. 5 bedrooms on second floor, large kitchen, formal dining room, living room, office on main floor, wrap around front porch, enclosed back porch, large front yard, huge backyard, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2 car garage and our neighbors just sold their home (has only 4 bedrooms and smaller yards) for $647k. Location, location, location, lol...
I like how Millie doesn't want to see wildlife in her yard, but every American would love to see some sort of wildlife their yard.
I live on a 3 acre wooded lot on a large lake in Georgia. My trail cameras capture photos of deer, foxes, raccoons and turtles every night! I am a country girl and I do not mind driving 40 minutes to get to a major shopping area! No HOA fees. My land was 40k and my new house was 350k and it’s absolutely beautiful. Haven’t heard any banjos yet lol.
Deer are aggressive and like to eat things people grow for decoration, and for food, especially herb gardens. They are best outside your property.
Squirrels are massive thieves who will devastate a vegetable garden. If you have a neighbor who likes to give them cacheable treats (looking at you, Bob) like peanuts, they will bury them everywhere. We had to plant cactus in our planters and give up on pretty flowers.
If it wasn’t for the smell, skunks make decent yardmates.
Opossums don’t look pretty, but they take care of pests. Plus, they are immune to rabies.
Raccoons get a bad rap in areas where there is not a lot of natural food sources. Ours just use our fence line as a highway and don’t bother the garbage cans. But they will kill housecats.
Depends on the wildlife. Here, it could be a mountain lion, or a bear, an angry moose, a rattle snake, etc. But the scariest wildlife for me was seeing dead alligators as road kill on a Florida highway, or maybe they weren't dead..🤔 And ghost crabs on the beach, lol.
I've read many a garden article about city people who moved to the country, and loved the deer. For a few months - and then spent lots of time and money learning how to keep deer out of their yard.
Not every American, speak for yourself.
I almost fell off my chair laughing, quote 'nothing, nothing in American movies is good in the woods" The best years of my childhood was spent exploring all day in the woods.
Me too! 😂😂 I think Millie’s been watching too many horror movies 😳🤦♀️
Same, as kids we built tree houses in the woods and camped out all night.
I spent many years of my childhood in a house on a dirt (sand) road surrounded by tall pine trees on the NC coast. Other than fire ants, large spiders, and sandspurs, nothing bad ever happened there.
I read this comment exactly as she was saying it 🤣
Damn Hollywood.
Millie would hate my place. 5 bedroom 3 bath, 1920 craftsman/farmhouse. 90% of everything in the house is 50s and older. It even has a great 1956 pink electric stove. Every room has a view of mountains all around, and even an occasional heard of turkeys pass through
That sounds amazing!!!
Now, THAT is the perfect house!
That sounds like my dream house.
During Covid lockdowns, people in apartments went nuts staying inside. Meanwhile, I could walk all around my house and go outside, front or back and wave at neighbors walking by and exercise outside, not on a balcony. And I have a garage for my 2 cars and a workshop. Only cost $300k and I am minutes from anything. Give me a house any day over apartments.
It's definitely preference, I prefer a large apartment to a home. My old apartment had a laundry room in the basement, met a lot of interesting people there and they all lived in my building so it's a bit like a dorm situation where you can meet new friends easily to hang out with. Excluding lockdown obviously, but we're passed that. I've also lived in a home and while getting friendly can happen, it's very different since you're not spending a lot of time interacting like in an elevator. Waving at a neighbor as you go from your car in the driveway to inside your home isn't exactly quality chat time.
Indeed! 2020 sucked otherwise but at least I had a big fenced backyard, a pool to cool off, a sizable vegetable patch, and a grassy lawn to toss the tennis ball around with my dog. I wasn’t working so the months cooped up inside might have driven me crazy. I never got Covid and the backyard saved my sanity.
Idk....my condo has 1400 sq ft...bigger than my last house!!
@@alexs1640 Absolutely agree. If you are single or in college apartments make more sense.. Moving in and out is a nightmare and landlords raise rents (New York is showing 40% increases). That said neighborhoods vary. We usually know most of our neighbors. I spent too many years in hotel rooms that I just don't like the box and elevators anymore.
I live in the Appalachian mountains. You'd get a massive home here in Southwest Virginia for a million. The view from my backyard tends to have deer, wild turkey, birds, and the occasional black bear. Being ever changing, it isn't boring!
I agree the mountains is the best place to live to me. Actually see the stars too.
I live in Las Vegas and once you are away from the strip it's like any other city, I actually haven't been to the strip or downtown in 3 years. That's for tourists.
What they're not telling you is those million-dollar apartments come with a 1000, up to $3,000 per month fee. They call it a maintenance fee or something like that. That's three grand a month on top of the million dollars.
Right Vin, when getting a an apartment in NYC. - finders' fee and of course the finder just open the door and you have to pay them for opening a door!
If you're somebody who can afford a million dollar apartment, $3,000 a month is peanuts.
@@fluffylittlebear not really. I could technically afford it, but would never do it with those kind of fees. I'd rather buy a million dollar house and pay no fees monthly.
@@fluffylittlebear $3,000 would be half your mortgage payment. It ISN'T peanuts. Also, if you just sold your $600,000 dollar home and bought this, your mortgage payment would only be $2,500 so that is more than your house payment. WEALTH is NOT income.
@@david-1775 Yes! On paper I'm very wealthy.
Nice of him to overlook the whole Midwest
There is a regular show on the HGTV network called My Lottery Dreamhouse where the host finds 3 different homes for the lotto winners and most are a lot below a million dollars.
Also, consider if you are in an apartment or condo, you will have to wait for elevators (if they work), parking space usually cost extra and Condos come with very pricey yearly fees for maintenance so the costis much higher than they claim. LasVegas is not just the strip. They have colleges, a NFL football team and it is a very modern city.
I would definitely have a hard time finding a million dollar home with Millie. She's scared of a forest. Poor Millie has seen too many movies.
Once she spent a day or two there she would be sold. Nothing like having wildlife and at least several acres of land. It is good for the soul.
Come on, you should know the wife makes the final decisions on things like this
As a city boy, I can agree with her. The unknown of the forest definitely scares me. If you were killed, they wouldn't find your body for a long time... I imagine it's the same in the opposite sense, a lot of people who liked the quiet of the woods are scared as soon as they step into a major city, they are going to get stabbed. Bad stuff happens in both, but you're not scared of what you grew up around
I live in the city but really near to the forest, I find it’s a good balance
Concierge are for your basic package security (porch pirates, although it can still happen between apartment tenants), and general building monitoring where they call the building security. In Seattle, my building has 24 hour security and cops on the neighborhood beat (although in Seattle they are pretty useless). Concierge basically are similar to welcome desk hosts in fancy hotels.
A view is important for city living, and having big windows is even more important (You do NOT want small viewless windows, trust me I did that for a few years), You can really feel claustrophobic in the city.
If you have a view of the city, you can people watch or see the fourth of July firework show or New Years Eve. In Seattle you can see the seasons change from a green summer, to a golden and red autumn, to a white dark winter with Christmas lights, to a pink and white blooming spring.
For two people a 4-6 bedroom house is a bit big, My parents had one that was just too big for the two of them and they slightly downscaled. But a 3 bedroom suburban house for you might be best with a decent distance from any road and a office for editing might be more your speed.
The woods are usually peaceful and calming, unless you go looking for trouble. There are places in the woods you don't want to go, like in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where there is some crazy woods people with guns and/or drugs. But in residential areas the woods are very safe aside from the occasional big wildlife. Most woods in millionaire suburban lots are paved with bike and walking paths and are pretty domesticated.
no one tell Millie, concierge isnt the same as security. there was a woman beaten right in front of a building door in NYC, the building concierge just watched not wanting to get entangled into legalities. 🤦♂
And John Lennon was shot like that
And even they called security they wouldn't of done anything either for the same reason
But the screams of the front desk gives you a heads up to get ready or find a good hiding spot 🤔🤷♂️
Down south we love the woods it feels good to be around also don’t let movies change your mind
I will say, if you have a proper view, you don't get tired of it. :) I got my place because of the view. I can see the Colorado river, the lake, and hundreds of miles into the desert. Been here for 7-years and it never gets old. Each sunset is it's own art. :P But, I wouldn't pay even half a million for where I am.
Lol! I have woods on my property, lots of good stuff there. And since these idiots only went to the 2 coasts, I'm in Oklahoma, have a 3 bed, 2 livingroom, kitchen dining, 2 full baths, lots of beautiful built-in shelves/cabinets, laundry room, 2 car garage, fireplace, brick, back deck, front patio, and 2.5 acres of gardens. Cost of property was under 200k.
Millie is afraid of the woods.. lmao tell her to play resident evil..^^
"With a crime rate of 63 per one thousand residents, Baltimore has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 16."
I take back that statement about living with our house backed up to the woods. We had a peeping Tom last year looked through our deck door. The raccoon was even wearing a mask.
I actually had one ring the doorbell one night. I was later putting his cookies out. 😆
Millie, you can't compare everything to the movies. Having woods is awesome.
You can move to nc and live in a smallish town . For less than 170k Ive got a 4 bed room 2 3/4 bath 2 story home 3,800 sqr ft appraised at 185,000 dollars. With complete concrete drive and large backyard with a pecan tree . City hall and library ob the same block . With city music concert every month during the summer. And that is within 80 miles of Charlotte Nc . And 120 miles from Wilmington Nc and the beach.
I love it when architect James makes his appearances. "Well you can change the front door..." and "It's not much different to that last one we just seen ... it isn't."
Las Vegas has suburbs…that’s where people live. Not on the strip.
Having a forest near your house is absolutely gorgeous. I nice peaceful walk away from society when you need to clear your mind that doesn't require you driving anywhere.
LOL When you said you didn't like the trees at the back of the house I knew where you were going, and then you said it, "Nothing in American movies is good in the woods." LMAO priceless. And I think you're right. :)
Lol! Millie's dream house looks identical to the home I just sold and moved out of in Colorado. Color and all! It was way too big for my wife, dog and myself but it was nice! We bought it for $365k and sold for $900k 14 years later.
Nice!
People actually love living in Vegas because there is tons of high paying jobs in casinos and the oil and IT industry, and the houses, especially in the suburbs are super cheap since it costs very little to build a new house in the desert.
I'm not from Vegas, but I do live in a city with a massive tourist industry. Locals generally just avoid those areas at all costs if they can. The only time I go to them is if I have family or friends in town. I imagine its similar for those who live in the 'real' parts of Vegas.
that’s accurate, as someone who is from Vegas… Locals don’t go to the strip, the closest we get is downtown or the arts district
and i think this guy was only talking about vegas city… the metropolitan area of Vegas is much larger than the city itself… 1 million can get you a really nice 3-5 bed house in one of the suburbs
As a Las Vegas resident. This is accurate, people only go to the strip if they work somewhere on the strip, or have people in town as you said. Or if there’s an event there that you want to go to.
@@lixjoonhoneymt7149 yeah I heard the Vegas strip is boring so it must be true.
Same with Times Square. Unless you're showing someone around, just best to avoid the whole 42nd street. Especially if you drive
For that pic Millie showed, that kind of house is very common in pretty much any kind of suburban area. $1 million will buy you every bit of that, and probably a little more in a place like West Des Moines, Iowa for example. West Des Moines has a relatively high cost of living for a state like Iowa, but most of the Midwest is extremely low cost of living (Chicago notwithstanding). West Des Moines’ cost of living is still well below that of Baltimore/DC, Chicago, LA, or NYC by a long shot.
My wife and I lived in WDM for awhile and you're definitely accurate about the cost of living. I was flabbergasted by the cost of living especially around Jordan Creek
I’ve lived in Las Vegas for 10 years. It’s great. There is so much to do here outside of The Strip, which most of us do not go to except for some sort of event (concerts, hockey, etc) or for work. Otherwise we avoid those spots like the plague. It’s also great to be in a city where nothing closes. You want sushi at 4am, cool plenty of sushi places open. Work overnight and want a drink after work, bars at 24 hours. A lot of outdoor activities including mountain hiking, water sports and even winter sports with a ski resort 45mins away. Don’t judge us off what you see in movies.
Millie, you like what you like. BUT… keep in mind, that most people who make movies about scary things happening in the woods or small towns grew up in the city. They have no knowledge of the country and it scares them. As someone who grew up in the Idaho mountains, there’s nothing scary there. There’s more to fear from crime in the city.
Exactly
That's not true at all. Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Louisiana, are the states with the most murders.
@@christineperez7562 He never said states he clearly said cities pay attention
@@christineperez7562 By most I assume you mean per capita. Those murders also happen mostly in the cities.
@@christineperez7562 another stat if you look at what those states and the cities in them where most murders happen have in common is whites are a minority in those high crime areas. Don't shoot the messenger, you can look up the stats and demographics yourself.
You guys are absolutely amazing! I really do enjoy watching your videos and thanks for the smiles.
James you seemed to really like the 5 bedroom with large garden. Planning on filling rooms and gardens with little Beesleys. ;-)
Property values are wildly different here in the states. I grew up in Knoxville, TN. In 1995, my parents bought a 2200sqft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 story brick colonial with a massive pool, 2-car garage, and a huge yard (garden) for 118k. My dad's bosses at the corporate office in New Jersey were bewildered because the same amount in 1995 would have bought them a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment where they lived in NJ. The same house is now worth approximately 273K in 2022. You could literally buy 3 of my parents' home for what you get a single bedroom apartment in NYC for. That would be a total of 12 bedrooms and about 3.5x the square footage with money to spare, versus 1 bedroom 660sqft. It is so inconsistent it's crazy. A million dollars in 2022 in Knoxville can get you brand new lakefront homes with 5 or 6 bedrooms, boat dock, between 4,000 and 7,000 sqft, and a 3-car garage in gated communities where the HOA fee includes your landscaping, trash pickup, and club membership. There is currently a house on the market here that is asking 2mil and it has over 14,000 sqft of space and 8 bedrooms and sits on several acres of land.
@Chris V. My dad's bosses had never left New Jersey and were aware that housing varied geographically, but not that dramatically. I mentioned NYC only to make the point that such a stark contrast in the housing market exists within the same country. I did not say Knoxville is like NYC. If Knoxville was as developed and crowded as NYC, then the property values wouldn't be so drastically different. I think you missed the point.
And you've clearly never been here, huh? 🤣 Obviously Knox is not NYC. NOWHERE is like NYC. Nothing even remotely compares. But for a southern city, Knox is respectably organized and not the podunk backwoods town that you're describing it to be. Please allow me to paint you a picture of what the city actually is. Our airport is among the 3 major airports in the state. In 2019, we had the highest rate of restaurants per capita in the US, and there are so many craft breweries that I can't keep track of them. Knox is on an international waterway, the intersection of 3 major highways, and a freight train line. Knox is home to a big university, which includes the 5th largest athletic stadium in the US, Neyland Stadium. Every few years there is a new public school built because the school system keeps running over capacity in the existing 91 buildings. There are 22 hospitals in the metro area. Most pro sports in TN choose Nashville because it is centrally located in the state and it is only a 2 hr drive from Knox. We do, however, have pro sports teams here in town. We have a pro hockey team and a minor league baseball team. We had a pro football team for a bit, too, but it couldn't compete with the fanfare and ticket sales of college football in the same city. The city is planning to break ground in 2024 to build a new baseball stadium that contains shopping, restaurants, and luxury housing within it. Knoxville is the home of the Discovery television group headquarters and the lead office of the TVA. We have multicultural celebrations/festivals year round and there are multiple art museums. Knox has a city symphony and city opera. Until it got to be too expensive, Knoxville hosted a free Labor Day firework celebration, called Boomsday, that tourists would drive hours to Knoxville to see. Knoxville has hosted a World's Fair. Nowhere is like NYC and I would never dream of comparing the two. But like I said, you've clearly never been here if you think Knoxville is a small podunk town with a dozen restaurants, no sports teams, and, an airport that goes nowhere. It's fine if you hate Tennessee, but at least give the state credit for what exists within it.
The reason Knoxville's property values are so comparatively low are:
1. The whole city and metro area sits on top of limestone caverns that make the ground susceptible to sinkholes when it rains.
2. The city and metro area run along the river. If the TVA dams should fail for some reason, the city is in the Tennessee Valley flood zone.
3. Close proximity to Oak Ridge deters people from moving here. It freaks them out.
Baltimore is 2-3 hours away from New York, Philadelphia and DC, so you can do weekend road trips as well as having the mansion too so that's a bonus however there are some parts of it that are pretty rough
First, NOTHING in American movies that is scary about the woods is an accurate representation of the American woods. At least not right behind your house. You'd probably never see anything but birds, deer, and squirrels.
I took a look, and prices have definitely gone up, but you can quite easily find nice homes in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of north central Texas that are around 1,500 - 2,500 square feet for like 300K - 500K. The ones closer to the major cities, or exclusive neighborhoods are of course going to be more money for less house. For a million, even a few miles from the really exclusive neighborhoods you can get a seriously nice place on a decent chunk of land.
Why did you mention Texas? The chainsaw massacres might scare Millie. Does she know that Jason and Michael Meyers aren't real? jk
@@lesterstone8595 Aliens attacked earth in Independence Day. She may want to start looking on other planets!
@@krayzy932 🤣 lol
@@lesterstone8595 I'll be honest, the first thing it made me think of was reading The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings as a kid. I was always confused by the seemingly irrational fear of forests, and thought maybe it was just an English thing.
@@dmwalker24 🤣 lol
There are places all over America where you can buy a really nice house for $250K. I bought a 100+ year-old house in a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania suburb for
Where I'm at in SC our house is a three bedroom, 2 bath, living/dinning/kitchen open floor plan. A huge back yard, a good size front yard and 10 minutes from anything and everything. All for less than $150,000. A million dollar home here you'd need a family of 20 plus maids, cooks etc. They're just too big for "normal" families around here. If I had a million I'd spend it on other things.
So I actually live in a colonial style house, but it has a large three car garage attached to the side and has everything you would want in a American dream house. Indoor gym, beautiful swimming pool and hot tub, large yard, front and back, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, game/theatre room, study room, home office, large kitchen, family room, mud room, office entrance room, foyer, pool table room, laundry room, sitting room, and a closet room attached to the master bedroom. Really everything you could want and colonial style houses are the best since they are built out of bricks and not pure wood, meaning they are built to last much longer than any ordinary plain wood house. But my neighbors house looks just like the dream house you want which is pretty insane. Only two single garages though, so if you want more than 2 cars, you’d have to park on the street or in the driveway.
Live all 5 1/2 acres with woods behind us and love it -- nothing like living in the country. Stop watching the movies Millie, nothing like America :)
I live on a four acre piece of of property with woods behind us. So far monsters have not come out of the woods wielding chainsaws like someone did say above we have seen deer and turkey. Nothing to be scared of.
The woods still seems scary though. There is no light to be seen in most woods..
Las Vegas is a great place to live (as a resident myself) and the whole metro area has about 2.2 million people also it’s not all that crazy(as long as u don’t go to the touristy areas)
These two clearly think Las Vegas is just the Strip. They don’t understand there’s way more to the city than the casinos and shows.
It's the same for most tourist cities. My brother moved to Miami, drawn by the allure of spending countless days on beaches. He's been there for 10 years and he recently told me that he's been to a beach or South Beach maybe a grand total of 20 times.
I would live in Winnetka, Illinois just 20 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan. Very very safe with great schools and homes. Winters can be interesting, but summers make it worth it. Millie would do well here. "Home Alone" movie was filmed here.
So start saving your money before you have kids.
Most horror movies are usually based in nupstate New York or the pacific northwest.
Baltimore: are the riots included?
If I'm not mistaken, Las Vagas grows in population around 6000 people a month!
It's wild. Vegas is growing just as much as Phoenix is growing in population.
I live just northwest if NYC and have everything you can want with the city 38 miles away.
FYI: Just about everywhere half an hour away from San Francisco is really expensive as well. That comment about moving half an hour away to a much larger place for a million dollars and visiting SF from time to time made me laugh because it cannot be done. Most of the people who want to live in the Bay Area don’t want to live specifically in San Francisco but somewhere nearby.
I know this vid specifically is about $1 million.
But here in my home state, WA, there's a regional difference for real-estate. A $2 million dollar house is up for sale in the second largest city. 4 floors, a pool, 2 car garage, on about 1 - 1.5 acres. Across the street from a park.
In a town closer to Seattle, not in Seattle, there's an 18 acre house designed to resemble a small castle. It has a dry moat with a real drawbridge. And two dragon sculptures made by someone in Sweden.
I grew up in a wooded area, with a 50 acre park with nothing but horse trails. Never saw anything bigger than a squirrel. I live near woods. the most common wild animal were coyotes (good for controlling rabbits) - which we've hardly seen in years.
They are concentrating on apartments in the middle of the largest cities. But as you said, if you go outside of the central part of the city, you can get a lot more for your money. One million will get you a beautiful home in just about any part of the country, except place like the middle of New York and San Francisco. :)
As for Las Vegas, it's not for me. I went there once a few years ago. I was driving across the country from New Jersey to California, and I had to pick places to stop each night. I picked Las Vegas for one night, just because I was curious about it. And there are normal neighborhoods in Las Vegas that have nothing to do with The Strip and the casinos. But it's still not a place I would enjoy living.
With regard to the Baltimore house and "crime," you're not going to find a lot of crime in the type of neighborhood where you would find a handsome Federal style home and garden like the one in the video.
Millie's dream house really does look very much like that one at the edge of the woods in Alabama. :)
Yeah heard my mom say that San Francisco homes are super expensive because it's tourist city so yeah.
Yes. I live in Maryland and I can tell you that house wasn't in downtown Baltimore!
Millie, I grew up in New England, I’ve spent my summers in the mountains in Maine and New Hampshire. the woods are not even close to being scary lol, American movies are seriously exaggerated 😁
Living in a woods is GREAT!!!! Growing up I lived in 8 acres of woods, surrounded by fields.
Those prices seem off and old. They also missed a lot of great states and areas in the US. Also I wouldn't live in Baltimore even if that million dollar house was free. Too much crime. Lol
Someone probably already mentioned this, but don't forget that in condos or apartments, you still have to pay monthly maintenance fees that can be more money then your mortgage. Also, I live in a home that is not in any wildlife area but close. We have a fenced yard that is about 1/3 of an acre and we get racoons, skunks, wild turkeys, peacocks, chickens, owls, doves etc. that will stroll through the yard. Our fence doesn't have any holes in it either. We also hear coyotes almost every early morning. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
I don't know how old the video is but I can definitely tell you that the information on California properties is waaaaay off. No way can you buy what he said you could for 1 million.
The “spacious unit” in San Francisco (4:47) is a building I’m currently re-engineering. They have leaks throughout the entirety of the building, electrical isn’t to code and wasn’t in 1966 when it was built. The property management group just gave our company 6.2M to fix these problems. Personally, I wouldn’t pay more than a $1,500 monthly to live there, let alone the $1-1.5M asking price for per unit they are looking for.
Millie's dream house looks like my next door neighbor's house, sitting on 5 acres of wooded property. You have definitely watched the wrong movies. Most of the crime happens in the big cities, not in the woods.
but Jason lives in the woods...
Urban > Suburban for crime rates. By far. Hundreds, if not thousands to one.
Nature is where you are safe.
I love the country..having a house on my own property to have a garden and privacy. I live in Ohio and I like the country feel. Apartments always made me nervous for fire reasons.. if one goes up..possibly they all go up.
That house in Baltimore was quite nice. Wouldn't mind that.
We have some VERY large and Very nice houses in my town, and none list for more than $500,000. We are 45 minutes south of Houston, and 10 minutes from the beach. Nothing in town is more than 10 minutes away. Love it.
I'd take the quiet farmhouse with land and animals any day! 💯👍😁
I was just in Chicago and saw the Home Alone House! I went directly from the airport to the the house and it is beautiful!
I live 20 minutes from Charlotte, NC. It is a pretty city.
The largest house in the city I'm from sold for $750,000 a few years ago it had 11 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a 2 lane bowling alley, theater, weight room, and sat on 20 acres. The prices people pay to live in major cities makes absolutely no sense to me
Is it a town you live in or a city?
@@HBC423 city, small but city, pro football hall of fame city, Canton Ohio
@@osheherring that's crazy that there are no hones more expensive there then, I live in little Chattanooga Tennessee near the southern Appalachian mountains, some of the poorest places in the country are near here. You can't get a little townhouse I. The city for u der 250k and they go downtown condos or townhouse could go over a million. A mansion on one of the rich mountaintop communities could go up to 10 million plus, but that like people that own Little Debbie or wealth from the first Coca-Cola bottling company. Old Money
@@HBC423 it could be a population thing too, you guys have over 180,000 people so demand is high which raises prices. We only have a little over 70,000 people and 70% of the population could never even afford to buy a home
@@osheherring we were the first city in the country to get fiber optic internet put in with 1Gig speeds, now we're 10Gig speeds, that attracted some tech companies, Volkswagen moved here, a lot of outdoor magazines and websites named us the best city for outdoor activities with all the rivers, cliffs mountain streams, and natural beauty, so that attracted a lot of rich granola type yuppies and gentrification went into overdrive, it's became ridiculously expensive, the giant mansions were always there though because of old money.
Omg, Murrieta is a hellhole in the middle of nowhere, and I laughed aloud when they said LA is an hour away. It's 2 hours at least and double that during rush hours, or if you want to go to the West side.
@12:39 - "Nothing in American movies...in the woods, is good." LMAO! Oh Millie is so adorable. :) I see how she can come to that conclusion. (Still lol'ing a little...)
The house Millie showed on her phone is similar to a lot of Midwestern houses in developments. Typically $300,000-$500,000. We have a few new ones that popped up in Texas, and I guess they went for about $350k each.
I live one hour from Las Vegas, it's great
10:00. I work in Boston, Massachusetts, but I live 30 minutes north of Boston. The North Shore of Massachusetts is where MANY people that work in Boston live. I live in a house that is $750,000 house in Amesbury, MA that has 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bath, with an acre of land behind my house that serves as a backyard and garden. I am also 10 minutes from Salisbury Beach State Park in Massachusetts and 15 minutes from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. The best bargains for housing in the US are 20-30 minutes outside of the major cities!
Millie is too funny! I like your practicality in this James. I would like to be a fly on the wall, so to speak, watching the two of you try to buy a house. We could become good friends as I think it would take you a very long time to find the house that you could both agree on... Thanks for sharing.
Always love you guys, and your reactions. Funny stuff!
Ok you have your million dollar condo in NY, now check out how much you would have to make at your job to pay the property taxes.😱
4 hours into the country from NYC would be able to get a nice 5 bedroom 5 full baths + a half guest bath for guests. ,a great kitchen,,etc and a 3 car garage.
In my town a million can get you a huge old 5,00 sq ft, 6-7 bed 5 bath, house on a good sized lot within walking distance of a really nice park. Or a fairly new McMansion on the outskirts of town in walking distance of a corn field.
Your dream house is in most suburbs anywhere in America
My home is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with living room, kitchen and dining room. It is worth less than $200,000 - $250,000 according to tax records. I have a large backyard and front yard. This is found in the Texas Panhandle.
So this is like 9 of the most expensive places to live in the US plus some random place in Alabama. For $1 million, you can get a large home with lots of acreage in the Midwest or Mountain West in a nicer community that's not too far from a major city.
A lot of people who work in nyc don’t live there. A lot of people live in ct. towns like Greenwich Fairfield and Stamford are popular. It’s a cheaper for them. I have delivered to loads of people. They work in the city and take a train home. The ones I would deliver to the most we became Acquaintances. They would bring me home pizzas cannolis everything lol. One of them took me to a Celtics knicks game bc I went back down on the weekend to help them put together there 6 beds they bought. It was amazing def worth the 2 hr drive lol.
But oof sad. Most people in New York live in Apartments where it's probably not maintained well by landlords..
The people who live in Las Vegas Nevada tend to stay away from the strip and they tend to go to either Fremont Street for entertainment or the other casinos that aren't on the Las Vegas Strip. When you go to Las Vegas some of the casinos/ hotels that are off the strip have shuttles that run to the strip so you can see the strip without having to drive to it. One of those casinos is called Sam's Town and it's on the east side of Las Vegas they're fairly reasonable for their rooms and they have a shuttle that runs to the strip that dropped you off at one end then like 3 or 4 hours later they pick you up at the other end of the strip.
The woods are a wonderful, peaceful place, with streams, trees, deer, wild turkey and all sorts of small animals. We live 60 miles south of Nashville, Tn and got a 1700 sq foot home with 1.3 acres for less than 300K. It all depends on where you live, how much you pay. Of the cities mentioned, I would not want to live in any of them. I have been to several on vacation, that was enough.
There is more to Vegas than the Strip and some of the darkest skies in the west are an hour north. of course it is sparse which is why the US government owns vast swatches of the state.
@Mille, the house sits on a plot of land. Do the math, if you carved out that much land, from anywhere in Jersey, you'd be sittin' pretty...with a nice house.
5:45. San Francisco is basically connected to Silicon Valley so people definitely live there for the opportunities not just the views, etc. In fact, it’s largely because of so many silicon millionaires and other high paid workers living there that it’s so expensive. And even 30 40 minutes from the city it’s still going to be very expensive.
Millie, I my town in the central part of Georgia in the Southeast, you can buy your dream house for less than 500 thousand US dollars. Less than 3 hours to the mountains or 3 hours to the beach.
Colonial American architecture is common up and down the East Coast. Which is why it looks like the Home Alone house. It's also known as Georgian.
guys,
i looked on a realator website, seen for $1.3 million a 4 bedroom 10 acre plus log cabin that's 2,400 square feet. Millie's dream home roughly is around $700k in southwestern Virginia.
Loved the video as well as your reactions to the homes shown. I'd never put the entire price down upon buying. 20% down payment, a decent mortgage - I'll bank and invest the rest. We live in NYC, born and bred, outside of Manhattan and couldn't care less about museums, Broadway and Times Square or being "in the middle of the action". We'll get about $700/750K for our present home and are looking to Eastern Pennsylvania for our new place. About $200/225K for the house ... any more $ and the place would be way too big! About an acre or two of land surrounded by trees, not too far from the nearest house, but not on top of each other either, single story, open plan layout, full basement and garage, fireplaces/wood stoves. Low taxes, as well - we pay $6000 here, now. We'll be satisfied enough with a view of trees and animals and lightning bugs in the backyard ... and maybe only the occasional monster or so hiding behind the odd tree!
The city is scarier than any forest
Millie, Millie, Millie! American movies thrive on your fear! The woods are not scary and you’re in far more danger in urban areas!
Woods still seems scary though because there's no light also what happens if you get kidnapped in the woods. Pfft
I suspect the common charges for those condos would be terrifying...24-hour concierge has a big price tag.
I didn't notice there being any houses in the Midwest. Home Alone house is in the suburban Chicago area, as is the Risky Business and Ferris Buehler house. Mainly because that's where John Hughes was from. So was I. Until I moved to western North Carolina - we have trees, creeks and animals. I live near the forest. And, even here, a million doesn't go as far as it used to. Trees are okay.
I like how they just ignore an entire region of the country populated with about 75 million people and the 3rd largest city in the country. I like it. Keep it that way. Cost of living is low here and we don't have water shortages, wildfires, or hurricanes and the northern part of the region really doesn't have any natural disasters at all unless you count blizzards.
You can find houses like that in every state. No problem!
Just looked up the exchange rate as of 10 pm MST in the states. For 1,000,000 it's 834 ,000 Pound Sterling.
Several acres in beautiful pine woods in Mobile county Alabama with a nice little cabin and only an hour or so drive away from the beautiful gulf of mexico and dauphine island.
Las Vegas is actually one of the fastest growing cities in the US. I wouldn't want to live there myself because I don't like hot climates
You're correct about Las Vegas seeing a lot of turnaround, at least in the central parts of the city. Some areas have rental turnover rates as high as 40% per year, although it's a more normal 2-5% in the suburbs. The really crazy statistic, though, is that Vegas casinos have a staff turnover rate around 110% per year. Yes, you read that correctly. They have a small number of long-term staff but most front-line workers last 6 - 8 months.
I own a 1801 sq. ft. Condominium in the East Bay of San Francisco. Ground level is 2 car tandem garage with a mud room and storage closet on same level. 1st level is the foyer, 2nd level has dining rm, living rm, large kitchen, 1/2 bath and master bedroom w/ ensuite bathroom with a balcony off of the 2nd level , 3rd level has master bedroom w/ensuite bathroom, laundry room and loft. (both bedrooms have walk in closets). Purchase price in these crazy times @ $825k.
I also own a house in a suburb of South Carolina. Just over 2400 sq. ft. 5 bedrooms on second floor, large kitchen, formal dining room, living room, office on main floor, wrap around front porch, enclosed back porch, large front yard, huge backyard, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2 car garage and our neighbors just sold their home (has only 4 bedrooms and smaller yards) for $647k. Location, location, location, lol...
Outside of the Strip, Las Vegas is just a city like anywhere else. Office buildings and schools and neighborhoods.
I’m pretty sure with those apartments/flats you will have monthly HOA fees for all those amenities and the doorman.