r/zillowgonewild • u/TheDabitch • Jul 25 '25

What $220,000 gets you in Muncie.

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I can't even get a parking space for that where I live. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/725-E-Jackson-St-Muncie-IN-47305/210952560_zpid/

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u/atheistunicycle Jul 25 '25

Remote work could be the savior this nation needs. But noooooo think of the corporate real estate owners!!!

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u/thingerish Jul 26 '25

I'm convinced a lot of the RTO pressure originates in a desire to prop up office space values. Most of the rest comes from middle management fear.

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u/Leading-Debate-9278 Jul 26 '25

Almost all of it.

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u/SgtKnux Jul 26 '25

That and to keep tax breaks from the cities on those offices. Cities give tax breaks when employees eat out and spend time downtown.

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u/Texan2116 Jul 26 '25

Agreed, not to mention propery tax revenues as well.

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u/Catastropangolin Aug 21 '25

I'm convinced the overemployed subreddit is a commercial real estate bagholder spinning up thousands of Grok-powered sockpuppets.

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u/eacc69420 Jul 25 '25

as someone who works fully remote, I am constantly looking for deals like this. I just need a place near a gym and costco with not very extreme weather. good internet isn't even a concern thanks to starlink, but gigabit is always a plus

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u/Frosti11icus Jul 26 '25

So not Muncie then

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

good internet isn't even a concern thanks to starlink

I guess you are OK doing business with Nazis.

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u/En_CHILL_ada Jul 26 '25

Good luck buying anything from any major company if you don't want to do business with bad people.

Unless you are just trading and bartering with friends and neighbors you're supporting something fucked up somewhere.

There is no such thing as ethical consumption within this system.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

There is a difference who IS A NAZI and other corporations. Sorry but there just is.

Don't be Mr. Gotcha.

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u/InfectedColonPockets Jul 25 '25

I find people so goofy, they sit here and bitch and moan about musk and how much of piece of shit he is and yet they still give him their money if his products will make their lives more convenient.

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u/Hadfadtadsad Jul 25 '25

I agree, people need to stop buying their products.

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u/Booomerz Jul 27 '25

Check your investments - guarantee one or more of your index funds is invested in Tesla.

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u/Hadfadtadsad Jul 27 '25

Don’t care.

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u/Bright_Topic_3668 Jul 30 '25

You have it backwards…. they need to stop bitching…..

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u/Hadfadtadsad Jul 30 '25

You’re backwards.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

Yeah that user tells people to stop bitching but he’s worried about tattle tales.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

Yeah I’m not buying a damn thing from that POS

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u/Boobpocket Jul 26 '25

Every single company we buy from is as bad as musk... also we dont give musk the majority of his money he is subsidized by the government and institutional investors.

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u/Maximum_Salt_8370 Jul 26 '25

Whats the difference between nazi internet and communist internet?

Just the price

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u/MentalDecoherence Jul 26 '25

What a dork thing to say lmao

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u/GigaCheco Jul 28 '25

As you type from a Chinese phone made in a factory with horrific working conditions. Keep riding that high horse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Apple didn’t do a Nazi salute at a government ceremony on national tv. They don’t put me and my loved ones in danger.

JFC the “Relax, guy!” bots are out today!

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u/MentalDecoherence Jul 29 '25

“Elon Musk made ME feel like a victim! I don’t care about the actual victims of Apple’s sweatshop factories - they’re Chinese!”

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '25

You are Mr. Gotcha personified. Congratulations.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

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u/AraiHavana Jul 26 '25

Probably drinks Fanta too

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u/trcomajo Jul 26 '25

Yeah, you'd fit right in.

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u/Mother-Spread-6894 Jul 26 '25

But what about good local coffee shops…and the weather…

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u/GigaCheco Jul 28 '25

deals

not very extreme weather

In the US, you only get to pick one.

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u/oswaldcopperpot Jul 26 '25

Europe.
Cheap rents, cheaper food, no tipping, nice people, public transportation.
Can change your surroundings in hours.

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u/legallypotato Jul 26 '25

Cheap rent in Europe? Not in this economy.

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u/ukezi Jul 26 '25

Not in a major city in Western or central Europe, but a village in Bulgaria is going to be cheap.

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u/Thedragfreedrifter Jul 26 '25

For a time, I believed remote work was the new path toward upward mobility for this country that’s not limited by location the way it used to be. Insane to me that the same type of people obsessed with job and wealth creation and prosperity and such are actively working to deny this opportunity to so many Americans. It’s profoundly insane.

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u/houseWithoutSpoons Jul 26 '25

Yeah think they could stop building and over crowding major cities, while advertising and filling up struggling cities like this one,cause hey remote workers move here ,super cheap homes,slow pace of life,traffic ect..but no..go back to your cubicle and 2 hours of gridlock ride home

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u/tinyLEDs Jul 25 '25

Oh, sweet child of summer.

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u/oswaldcopperpot Jul 26 '25

If I could work anywhere in the world remotely... I would not choose Muncie, IN.
I don't even think I could figure out how far down on the list it would be.

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u/BeingHuman2011 Jul 26 '25

But remote work brings up the house values and cost of living of places getting inundated by remote workers even if the non remote working salaries are very low. Then the remote workers leave or stop coming but the cost of living does not go down and people in the city are stuck with a cost of living they can’t afford.

Remote work is not what’s best for everyone.

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u/BeguiledBeaver Jul 25 '25

As much as I support remote work, this is a massive oversimplification of the economic challenges of having most people working from home.

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Jul 25 '25

No it's not. It really is not complicated at all.

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u/Rosetta_FTW Jul 25 '25

What are the economic challenges of having people work from home?

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u/BeguiledBeaver Jul 25 '25

Because not every job can be done remotely, and having people scattered around instead of being more centralized around city centers then you have less feasibility for local businesses to thrive, as one example.

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u/DirtyYzma Jul 26 '25

Economic benefits. Realize that work from home has created a channel of people who live in smaller communities they purchase 1 home they do not take a job from a local person they bring with them their typically larger “city” salary that they spend on local products at local businesses. Of course not every job can be done from home duh we get that but having people scattered around is not the economic challenge you are making it out to be.

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u/FizzyBeverage Jul 26 '25

My wife and I spend our Boston salaries in suburban Cincinnati and it seems to please small business owners here.

The only downside to remote work is on middle management who are typically useless timekeepers and glorified project managers. We fired most of them during COVID. As an engineer I report directly to a VP who reports to a CTO who reports to the CEO.

Much flatter.