As a reader of your Real Estate and New Homes sections, I must remind you that not all of your readers live in $300,000 homes.
It’s heartening to see the revival that’s occurred in the Loop since I lived in the city eight years ago. But for every reader who is able–or willing–to spend $250,000 on a 1,000-square-foot condo in Streeterville, there are 50 others in row houses on the South Side, 60-year-old bungalows on the West Side and near Northwest suburbs, and others like me, happy living in a medium-size home that cost half of what I could afford and one-fifth of the price of the luxury homes you always seem to write about.
When you ignore that most of us live in more modest homes, and that not every home being built today costs $300,000, you indirectly criticize people who aren’t rich by excluding them from your coverage.
