Minneapolis reporting in, 200k houses abound.

But hey fuck us flyover states-- what with our high paying jobs and affordable housing

Flyover states? Like... Virginia? http://www.businessinsider.com/which-states-are-flown-over-t...

Just kidding, I'm in flyover country as well (Colorado), though our real estate is much less affordable than yours, it sounds like.

Look in Maine. My mother is moving to a house that is roughly 180k on a decent chunk of land.

The issue is she works from home and someone tied to a corporate office in SF might not have the luxury of moving out east.

It's going to get even cheaper in the next year or so in Maine. Several major paper mills have just announced huge layoffs or have closed their doors. In Franklin County (approximately 35000 people, and about 1/16th of the state), the Verso mill laid off 300 employees, along with 100 logging contractors. Spider that out to the service, supply, and transport jobs that are going to go away as a result of this, and you are talking thousands of jobs that are going away, and there's no other industry to absorb those losses.

Real-estate is already dirt-cheap up there - a home that would sell for half a million in Boston or a million in SFO can be bought for less than 150k. It's going to crater even harder.

If anybody likes to ski and can work remotely, I've got a couple of houses for < $100,000 in the family that are a half-hour from Sugarloaf or Sunday River...

I can get a $180K 3 bed, 2 bath home 15 minutes from Clearwater Beach in Florida, while making top dollar engineer salary for a remote company.