This is an excellent point. The services in close proximity to most houses has increased dramatically. Recently I read a comment lamenting how "boomers" bought up all the beachfront property and there was none left. This commenter never understood that in this particular community, the beachfront wasn't even connected to the mainland by any roads at the time, the people who lived there were more or less exiled because it was the cheapest area to live due to it having zero amenities at the time. Sure, once the city built the bridges things got a lot better, but in some cases it was 20 years before that happened.