 well it wasn't that long ago that americans by the thousands were flocking to places like austin texas and boise idaho and other so-called pandemic boom towns and home prices in those markets went sailing over the moon but now they're coming back down to earth and sometimes painfully so says re-venture ceo nick jerley these pandemic boom towns they just got way too expensive over the last two or three years they're 20 30 maybe even 40 overvalued in some cases