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A Surprising Midwestern Metro Is Suddenly Booming With Homebuyers—Here’s What’s Behind the Surge

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A Surprising Midwestern Metro Is Suddenly Booming With Homebuyers—Here’s What’s Behind the Surge

South Bend, IN, may be best known as the home of the golden-domed University of Notre Dame and its storied Fighting Irish football team—but this year, the mid-sized Midwestern metro is turning heads for another reason—its surging housing market. Set along the St. Joseph’s River, South Bend—a city of 350,000 residents—took home the bronze in … Read more

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘House of Dynamite’ Brings Nuclear Danger but Homeowners Have Already Been Digging In. What’s the ROI on Backyard Bunkers?

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Kitchen in an underground bunker with windows to painted backyard scenes. Credit: Rooted Elements Media 

Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, “A House of Dynamite,” lands on Netflix this weekend with a bang. In her latest, the Oscar-winning director behind “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” takes on the unthinkable: a nuclear strike on American soil.  But for many, that premise no longer feels like fiction, and fears of potential nuclear … Read more