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Posted By: davidcycleback

I suspect Atlanta is flat and wide so you can easily move outwards if you need more housing. In Seattle, there are geographical constraints that help prevent this. Where I grew up, it was flat, not overpopulated, and you could build outwards. $500,000 in today's money would buy you a mansion on an acre of land in a ritzy neighborhood. I grew up within the city and my family's yard was 2-1/2 acres (when my parents bought the house it was outside the city, and the city expanded past it). In Seattle, they'd divide that into about 20 plots.