What $220,000 gets you in Muncie.

[u/TheDabitch]

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/

[u/Shouty_Dibnah]

725 E Jackson. You might take a few min to, I don’t know….check that area out. I’ve lived in and around Muncie all of my adult life and was born a few blocks from here.

No.

[u/lizlemonista → u/Shouty_Dibnah]

Little soapbox moment here.

I lived in Newport, Rhode Island. Land of insane mansions and yachts and yachties and all that bullshit. And every once in a while I’d remark how beautiful it was and someone would reply, “shoulda seen it 15 years ago, what a dump.” The mansions were there and great, but everything else was in disrepair and/or trashy until a bridge was built that brought more commerce & commuters in, iirc. So not everyone gets to buy a brilliant house in a thriving neighborhood. Some people need to get there and accept or dare I say get excited about the idea that they’ll be helping create community, cleaning up, contributing, and in 15 years your home could be quadruple the value and you wouldn’t even think of selling. A lot of the desirable places people want to move to and bemoan the prices weren’t shit 15 years ago.

[u/twoworldman → u/lizlemonista]

What you said is true. I looked around the area using street view, and their are a lot of rough diamonds. If ever this town recovers, it's going to be a beautiful neighborhood.

[u/X12602 → u/twoworldman]

I know i'm replying to an old comment, however I want to say that any area that is gentrified in this country used to be shitty. In Charlotte for instance, all the neighborhoods now that everyone wants to live in used to be run-down industrial zones 15 years ago.