Left vs Right, in housing

Both houses are at the same price of $350,000

I'll go ahead and ask my question here, what caused this huge difference in how far your dollar can go between these areas in the same country?

Here's a house in a predominant conservative neighborhood/city/county, or as we like to be described po-dunk redneck backwoods toothless barefooted hillbillies, Benton, AR

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale...42_rect/11_zm/









Here's a house in a predominant progressive neighborhood/city/county Los Angeles, CA, where the high class big city folk live

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale...512_rect/8_zm/
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