So—
How much a house in the suburbs?
My country doesn't have a concept of suburbia but I will try any American over industrialized delicacy at least once!
Depending on where you live, a house in the suburbs is either a very reasonable alternative to renting an apartment in a near-ish city or is literally millions of dollars for a 2-bedroom house built in the 1950s from a catalogue; there's a term for people who go into massive debt to buy a house instead of renting or living within their means in a smaller house/condo: house poor. Housing in the U.S. is a fascinating economic situation wherein it's:
A very common type of investment heavily subsidized by federal, state, and local governments; buying a house and doing nothing with it in many suburbs is considered a very low-risk investment because it's assumed that the value of the land itself will continue building forever, plus any work you put into the house/land will increase its resale value later. The 2008 housing crisis was in part caused by an over-abundance of houses as assets outside of any rational framework of how they might be sold and owned by real human people.
One of the most important cultural signifiers of The American Dream! The same family with the same jobs, costs, etc. etc. etc. is seen as much more successful if they live in their own single family home vs. a condo or apartment. Some of this is reasonable (I would like to have a vegetable garden at some point in my life) and much of it is the colonialist-individualist fantasy of Owning Your Own Private Kingdom (look up "trespassers will be shot" signs some time)
Literally you need to be able to live somewhere to survive, and in many areas (especially the further you get from cities) there isn't the economic incentive for cheap, safe apartment housing available. The result is that people are priced out of owning a home (because remember, value needs to increase infinitely or the whole idea of 'house as investment' falters) but there's also no spaces available to support large families, as you'd be hard pressed to nail down an affordable 3- or 4-bedroom apartment (at least where I've lived).
I think you could genuinely chart the entire history of America on that one question. This is why the haunted house, and the haunted house movie in particular, never dies: our entire cultural mythos hangs on houses, and what it takes to get them, keep them, deserve them, build them, live in them after someone has died, etc. etc. etc. forever.
