Courtesy of Lauren Savoie
- From 2020 to 2021, 85% of homebuyers ages 31 to 40 bought either in a suburb or small town.
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Lauren Savoie, 34, traded Boston for Manhattan, Kansas, a college town with a population of less than 55,000, in 2022.
Savoie and her husband, who's enrolled in the local college, get more bang for their buck, spending the same $1,700 in rent they paid in Boston for an extra bedroom and better appliances in Kansas. But the peaceful respite they were hoping for turned out to be, well, boring.