Many people here have sold and moved to one of the many beautiful towns on our island that are closer to nature, cheaper, and easy to “buy up” in terms of lifestyle. In turn, that has dramatically boosted prices in those towns.
Hypothetically (I expect the inverse to happen), if my value increases at this rate until my kids are moved out, I can sell this place for $1.5M. That would get me a LOT of house in one of those towns. But why? Who does that benefit? And does it push locals out of those towns, over time?
I don’t want to maintain some kind of housing homeostasis where values remain the same and no one moves. But the time scale here is ridiculous and it’s dramatically changing my region in bad ways, and I don’t see any net positives outside of very few people’s bank accounts.
Yet like I said, I do expect it to go the other way. I expected to lose 10% by now, not gain it. There should be a correction at some point, or things are going to be radically different where I live very soon. People are really at their limits.
