Ben Southwood(@bswud):These two houses are the same price. 769sqft in Clacton, one of the UK's poorest towns, or 3,200sqft in an extremely leafy suburb of Houston, Texas. https://t.co/9aEOQvEo5q https://t.co/HMQWVdDpsJ

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2026.08.11 14:49

These two houses are the same price. 769sqft in Clacton, one of the UK's poorest towns, or 3,200sqft in an extremely leafy suburb of Houston, Texas.

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