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Comment by dyauspitr

1 day ago

You can buy a small house in rural America for $25,000

In my country (Australia), the cheapest I can get is like $250k USD equivalent... But that's a shack in the middle of the desert in some tiny ghost town. Even in a normal small town, houses are like $350k USD minimum. In capital cities, it's like $500k USD minimum for a tiny apartment... Top salaries for top senior software devs are like $130k USD before tax, taxed at about 40%... So take home pay is like $78k USD net income. Rent is like $22k per year minimum. Impossible to get fixed-rate mortgages; banks only only do variable rate... 20% minimum deposit. This is in a country with a LOT of spare land which is scarcely populated.

Rural Russia as well. But you will probably have to get your water from a well and poop into a latrine.