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72. When property values started rising in California and on the East Coast

Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:47 PM

Aug 2025

in the 70's it started to become very difficult to leave Texas for those areas if you wanted to buy a house.

There was a saying in Amarillo that if you wore out a pair of shoes in Amarillo you would never leave. People who liked Amarillo thought that was a good thing. Other people thought that it meant that you were trapped. And since a lot of the wealth built for the working class in the 70's-00's was from rising home prices, spending a decade or more in a place with little property price appreciation did mean that your options were limited.

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