I mean this sincerely -- if you were looking to move, to someplace urban like Sacramento and you saw two houses, and one had a neighbor with multiple broken down cars in the yard and the other didn't, would you value them same all else equal? Like if it really came down to it, that wouldn't be a factor _at all_?
I'm positing (without evidence) that for most people it would be a factor, so the home owner would suffer some amount of real money harm. Much less harm in rural Alabama, much more harm in lower Manhattan.
Fair enough! I'm surprised by how many people feel this way in this thread.
Out of curiosity, do you also think that the majority of Americans feel that way? My guess is it's gotta be at least 90/10 that would be less likely to move next to a broken down car place, certainly enough to affect the buyer pool in a city.
I'm positing (without evidence) that for most people it would be a factor, so the home owner would suffer some amount of real money harm. Much less harm in rural Alabama, much more harm in lower Manhattan.