Feels bad, moving from 3 most expensive to the most expensive

SoCal.. you are way to expensive

The Metropolitan Statistical Areas listed on the chart are the ones I could match up Median Home Prices from the National Association of Realtors and Per Capita Income from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis to calculate a ratio from. Out of 384 total Metropolitan Statistical Areas, this chart shows 182 of them.

Can’t wait for Chapter 4. That fight scene in traffic looks crazy.

That level of growth is what we are seeing in Oceanside, which is the last coastal part of San Diego County to gentrify. It's hard to fathom, but at least if you drive inland 15 minutes the growth is only double over the same time period...

Data: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/zbowders/john-wicks-confirmed-onscreen-kills

Interactive Viz link: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/zach.bowders/viz/WICKIPEDIA/WICKIPEDIA

Tools, Tableau, https://tools.ladataviz.com/voronoi

My Aunt and Cousin live there, and I would, too, if was ready to retire. It’s pretty nice, and not too crazy busy. It’s just far enough away from Orlando/Space Coast and Miami/Fort Lauderdale.

Oh shit I forgot about San Marino. The Italians must be quaking in their boots 😰

You could probably make the pie/ring chart with a Python library that lets you set the background for each slice to a custom image. Then you could import it into Adobe Illustrator and do the annotations by hand.

Thanks for checking! I'm surprised at how little the R² value changed - might as well stick with linear.

I would like to see this sorted by average income. What city has the highest paying jobs with the lowest cost of housing?

The surge of these graphs has been strange. As someone who is currently pursuing an engineering PhD, I can confidently say that a degree has nothing to do with intelligence. There is no correlation between higher education implying intelligence and the party you vote for.

Id argue that it most definitely depends on what you’re majoring in , and if the industry you work for requires higher education. I think it’s safe to say that most business/finance/economics departments consist of right-leaning males, as do agricultural departments. Most liberal arts, software engineering, and environment departments would consist of left leaning males and females.

These posts hide way too much of what really goes on.

Just to add, my engineering department consists of a very even split between left and right, although most of us just really don’t give a damn in general.

when the gatekeeper is cost, all educational correlations are also socio-economic class correlations

Ugh I live in San Deigo and and commute to Carlsbad. Its sad to say but Carlsbad market is better than San Diego. It's just awful overall..

Just biding my time until I can move back out east again where I can afford

People from Pittsburgh must have bribed the list maker to stay off the list. Its a pretty nice place that is still kinda affordable, at least it was when my sister left there for a new job a few years ago.

Where is Pittsburgh the 29th largest metro area?

Desirability is highly subjective.

I live in the Syracuse, NY MSA which has a pretty low ratio (3.4) and enjoy living here - Mild summers, actual winters (3 ski resorts close by), easy driving distance to the Adirondacks & Catskills, no traffic, all my friends are within an hour or so drive, $270k 2500sqft house on 3 acres 20 minutes from work.

From other threads on housing costs, I see tons of comments from Redditors that "can't live" in areas outside NYC, Boston, DC, Seattle, SF, LA, etc. because they value urban living the most.

To each their own, but my point is, different people value different things.

Probably hurricanes and expensive insurance

Great response. You're a smart potato!

thanks! unfortunately the OP hasn't linked to the data, even in their oldest comment. :(

The best fit I could get was:

y = -75.386x3 + 8.808x2 + 4.8639x - 0.092
R² = 0.6814

That makes sense. Public goods (eg from govt spending) have more impact, higher ROI in densely populated areas. So policies that are genuinely stupid for rural TN make perfect sense in MA

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Lagos is one of the most expensive capital cities

Interesting thought. If you had more colleges per capita, would you necessarily have more professors per capita? Perhaps the count of colleges is not 1:1 with the count of professors (some colleges may be small).

I think that it is likely that there is an amplifying factor outside politics, which is that (in my estimation and experience) highly educated people are more likely to have advanced degrees. I know that sounds self-explanatory, but it's a compounding effect. For example, the more high school graduates you have, the more college graduates you have, and the more college graduates you have, the more advanced degrees you award.

So, having good basic education is going to lead to a higher number of advanced degrees awarded at the end of that cycle.

I think that rather than the "Democrat = Smart" story, this is telling a story of economic differences that goes back to the fundamental differences between the states. This is a story of rural vs urban. The more urban a state is, the more white collar jobs it has. And, it may be that the Democratic perspective resonates more with people in those jobs - that their policy ideas and values more align with urbanites.

I think if you were to do another graph with advanced degrees plotted against percent of population living in an urban environment, you'd find a strong correlation, and we may find that urban population is a better predictor of D-ticket votes than educational attainment.

Did a quick Google search and found this: https://engaging-data.com/election-population-density/

Being closely packed in with other people makes you far more likely to vote Democrat. (Unless you live in Staten Island, apparently. What a strange outlier. I don't know enough about NYC to explain this.)