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creemeeseason t1_j1ht9zk wrote

"good schools" is possibly the biggest scam in real estate. The "best" schools are generally found in the highest income areas because people with money tend to have high achieving kids. It's a self fulfilling cycle.

There are plenty of communities in suburban Boston that have solid schools and you can get a single family house for $500-600k. That's still crazy expensive, and I think that's a problem....but $1.5 million is far more than anyone NEEDS to spend.

However, I totally agree that Massachusetts is overpriced. We have made.ot so hard to build that we don't have enough housing, and we're now in a spiral where housing is so expensive to build that we can not economically build affordable housing. I'm fairly certain that my children will not be able to afford Massachusetts , or won't want to because our economy will decline because we can't get enough workers.

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[deleted] OP t1_j1htv79 wrote

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Next-Entrepreneur631 t1_j1hunc0 wrote

I’ve raised two babies in pre 1978 houses (both were built in the 1930s) without any issues, ever. Both grew up not only healthy but intelligent enough to be in advanced placement throughout their school years. You repaint when you move in and watch your children carefully. Before you know it, they’re at an age where they know better than to munch on paint chips. Willingness to settle on an older house may help you find one within your price range. We also found affordable houses by settling for older houses that needed a bit of updating which we did ourselves. By doing the work ourselves, we doubled our equity in the first couple of years.

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lotusblossom60 t1_j1hun3e wrote

Start with a condo and build equity. I’m north of Boston right off 93 and condos can be had starting at $450 to get you in the door

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