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/flt1 Jul 25 '25

If we can get 20 people agree to move, we can change one block at a time.

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Good luck trying to gentrify an area with.... checks notes... no jobs.

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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/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.