Is Des Moines, Iowa "super rural" now? I'm not even in the top 20% of income earners and I could comfortably start a reasonable mortgage on a single family home here. I mean... I know it's still Iowa which probably conjures images of corn fields and pigs for most people, but I'd hardly call a metropolitan area of over 600k "super rural".

Don't get me wrong, housing prices are still nuts here compared to where they were a few short years ago - even in actual "super rural" parts of the state thanks to materials and labor shortages. The whole 1% having to live somewhere "super rural" thing just threw me for a loop.