Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house, shops at Dollar General
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter might have once called the famous white mansion on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. his home, but now, Carter lives in a much, much more modest abode.
Carter, who served as the 39th U.S. president, actually lives a fairly normal — and frugal — life, according to a report in The Washington Post. In fact, Carter, 93, still lives in the ranch house he built himself in 1961.
The home, in rural Plains, Georgia (about a two and a half-hour drive south of Atlanta) is a two-bedroom ranch assessed at just $167,000, which is "less than the value of the armored Secret Service vehicles parked outside [it]," the Post reports. It's also less than the median home price in Georgia, which is $175,300, according to real estate site Zillow.
In addition to his affordable home, Carter's frugal tendencies include spending weekends dining with neighbors on paper plates with bargain-brand wine, and he and wife Rosalynn make their own yogurt, reports the Post. Carter has also been known to buy his clothes at his local Dollar General store, according to a 2011 Rolling Stone story (he showed up for the store's opening in Plains in 2004) and he often flies commercial, recently shaking hands with passengers on a Delta flight from Atlanta, Georgia to D.C. in June.
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