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You can talk about Fate or you can talk about Facts in the course of a lifetime. I ended up spending my life in the Utica area largely because of the fact that housing was affordable for a single mother. I suppose the fate that brought me here was my first husband, a native Utican.

The fact remains that housing in Utica, compared to the rest of the country, especially either coast, is not only affordable; if you have any real money you can buy a palace for $400,000.

Or as ABC news put it when they voted Utica #1 for affordable housing: "You can get a house in Utica for about two years' worth of wages. The median home price is $104,000, which means half of houses cost more than that, and half cost less."

Check out the link.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ConsumerNews/real-estate-best-cities-buy-home-2011/story?id=1276192