17 popular trends interior designers wish would disappear

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There are quite a few popular home trends that professionals hate.

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A millennial shares why she left pricey San Francisco and settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it's 'much more accessible to buy a lovely larger-sized home'

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Jesse Rosenthal and Rachel Pohl traveled around the US for around a year, and they now live in Tennessee.

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It might be your fault you can't afford a house, says finance guru Dave Ramsey

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Dave Ramsey.

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An Arkansas county doesn't want families to move. It's offering them up to $50,000 to build or renovate their homes.

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A street in Blytheville, Arkansas.

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There are 4 cities where housing is now 'impossibly unaffordable' — and they're all in the same state

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"Selling Sunset" follows real estate agents in California.

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Japan's glut of abandoned, derelict homes created so many eyesores and safety hazards it's making the property market bleed billions

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Japan has over 8 million abandoned houses in the countryside.

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See inside a $300 million Gilded Age mansion built for heirs who died on the Titanic that sat abandoned for years

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in 1897, Lynnewood Hall was built in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

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This Canadian city has found the sweet spot between low cost of living and high quality of life

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Montreal, Canada.

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A millennial who makes 6 figures says she's looking across the US for a home but is struggling to find one in her budget that has green space and a 'metropolitan vibe'

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Madelyn Driver said she and her husband are struggling to find a home in the US that checks all their boxes.

Madelyn Driver

Their trip to Bali was going to be a month long. But they fell in love with the island and built a house near the sea, giving up city life for good.

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The garden creeps into the living area.
The garden creeps into the living area.

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