Cryingdick

if you moved more towards the Detroit side of the freeway there were options for around that. I can only imagine the nightlife. Now I just drive straight through to the UP even if it takes me ten hours from home. Yeah maybe out west you wouldn't find a decent Airbnb for that price. I live in a cheaper region. So I find it can be a better value if more than a motel more comfortable. I have a travel trailer be using the Hipcamp site to find cheap places when I travel these days. The nomadic lifestyle in the USA seems to be dying the place has become so crowded after Covid.

The places I was staying in for $100 a night a couple years ago now go for $200 a night. I was looking to book a simple airbnb in Ann Arbor recently, which is midway up to my lake place. A couple years ago I had a decent spot in the center of town for around $100 all in. The last time I looked I couldn't find anything in the center and what was on the fringes was a little over $200.

the extended stays I saw where located around some mundane place like Land O' Lakes corporate headquarters or some other dull place. Price sounds about right, they didn't seem to offer much if any discount for extended stays. I guess they think that is cheap enough already. is it just me or have motels become way worse than I remember them as a kid? I remember when people would go on road trips and vacation in them. Free HBO!!!!!! the last few motels I have used I refused to undress to sleep on the bed and kept above the blankets. It amazes me also how crackheads seem to pop up even in the most unlikely motel parking lots. More and more they seem to be making trade off the homeless and all that goes with that.

That would cost on average around $500 a night now if you are careful. Depending on the RV rental maybe more. My friend wanted to do a road trip in the USA as he loves all things American. He asked how much it would cost to do a road trip from NYC to LA over a month. he said he was thinking about $100 a night and getting a junker car. I told him that's possible if you live in the car, never enter a city, avoid any national park or paid campground and eat sandwiches you make out of the trunk of your car.

Most of it is remote work. Get paid SF wages pay Austin prices. Although the trade is losing its value as prices are up everywhere. These days you pay top dollar just about anywhere that anybody has ever heard of or seen on a map. it all comes down to money nobody leaves CA for a better climate.

There are many properties on Airbnb that you get your own unit. I have stayed in many carriage houses and upstairs apartments etc. for inner cities there are a ton of condos that are actually quite good for the price. I agree on not wanting to share but if you search right you don't have to. That being said prices have really gone up in the past few years. The places I would go for were around $100 a night and pretty decent now go for $200 a night or more, I paid $1,800 for three weeks in Panama Beach a few years ago. Last time I searched it is now $5,000. I looked at Extended Stay America awhile back and they wanted more than $3,000 a month in some outer burb of Minneapolis. I don't find the value in that and it is how I found Airbnb. If Airbnb, Vrbo, don't have it, it doesn't exist. cheap housing is becoming very scarce.

I have already returned to the USA and have a place. However I am looking for a cheap place to do winters in a milder climate. One place that keeps popping up is Macon, Georgia. From what I can see there are some cute homes that are a bit rough. The neighborhoods look pretty unkempt in some areas but now and again a really cute place pops up that looks actually decent, prices are very low. I have asked about the crime and it is present though I was told it isn't gang infested, apparently it is a typical mid size southern town trying to make a come back. It has a historic downtown and actually some decent options for dining and entertainment. This suggestion is more for somebody wanting a house under $100k I have no idea about apartments or rentals. If houses are cheap rentals should be cheap as well. I imagine you can get a house to rent for well under $1,000. it is not too far from Atlanta either which is a town I like. I would try to find something in a river valley to get some hills which prevent tornadoes. Weirton, WV would be another place with rents under $1,000 cheap gas, cheap pretty much everything. It is the closest town to where I live in the countryside. It is 100% safe, has a variety of restaurants and some big box shops. It is 30 minutes from Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has some cultural activities and attractions although I haven't been there much. I hate the hills. It gets really dreary in the winter, that is what wears on me more than the cold. If I didn't have a really nice property in the forest here I would probably not choose Weirton. It does have a decent hospital and good things about it but it isn't pretty. There are nice natural areas surrounding it though. Right now Macon and a few towns in Mississippi are where I am focused. Again I am not doing the summers there. Macon I like the idea of for some forms of entertainment as boredom will become your worst enemy in much of the USA.

Well you seem to want to disparage any potential location you can afford as D level, 4th tier, crapholes. Trump himself would be proud. That aside, now isn't the time to come home to the USA looking for a place to try to live off of the crumbs. Do you think you are going to practice Spanish with M13 members at the Waffle House in Odessa after waiting in line for medical care for hour after hour because the clinics are overwhelmed by illegal immigrants? The policies that have been implemented in recent years make it very unlikely and at worst pretty unfavorable for an expat to move home without access to a pile of cash. You won't be able to afford a car, the gas or insurance all of which have risen sharply. You can get an apartment almost anywhere for under $1,000 outside of major urban centers or hipster college towns. However with your complete contempt for the demographic that lives there would you actually be welcomed? That would depend on you, but your posts in this topic make it clear that this is more about belittling those areas and people than it is a genuine desire to move there. People are reduced to trying to avoid living in their cars , be able to eat and you have the audacity to pretend you are shopping for a place of your own choosing. Please come to live in a craphole, D level, 4th tier town like Odessa where the border problems are swelling and keep us all updated on how that works out for you. I wouldn't move back to the USA if I didn't have at least $100k and would like it to be more like $250k.