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You can't compare living in Silicon valley with the rest of the country. Ca housing market, rentals as well as property to purchase is nutty. Many places in the USA offer decent housing to those making $100,000 a year.
That's one reason people move out of California. I know someone who had a two bed one bath bungalow in SoCal, sold it and with the money bought a large house with lakefront property in Texas.
I think the fact that a person like T is President is very disconcerting to many. It can shake ones reality. He isn't normal and it's obviously scary. Not sure what the answer is. I only think he'll play a large part in his own undoing. One can only be so cocky, arrogant and full of bluster...without consequences. Pride goeth before a fall.
As long as keeps trying to fulfill his campaign promises and he is one of the few that have in the past 30 years mot of us will put up with his arrogance. BTW this does not make him abnormal. If arrogance does, there are a lot of sick people around here. Sports people, many politicians, lawyers, politicians, and entertainers for starters
I know suicides and people seeking psychiatric care are up. Not surprising when you have a horrible President that is in your face everyday lying and acting like a moron. People do not feel safe or secure because they are worried about the fact that a psychopath has his finger on the nuclear button. I'm pretty sure he is going down though. His children likely have sealed indictments against them for money laundering and other crimes. Those will be brought by the state of New York when Trump is out of power. He is a life-long con-man/thief who taught his children his CRAFT.
Suicides might be up because Loony Leftists have finally realized the Demwits and mainstream media have played them for suckers for two years, creating fantasies about evil Trump, whipping their audience into a frenzy of fear and hysteria. The media's ratings have plummeted since the Mueller Report but they are stringing along the few zombies who are still watching. Now the Leftists are being investigated!
Why don't people like you write to their lazy Demwit congressmen to ask them to do something constructive for their constituents for a change? Like get a bipartisan infrastructure or health care bill done. I know you'd feel so much better, dear.
Really?
An individual making $100K in silicon valley cannot afford a home.
Average salary in this country is $54K, and rents have doubled in the past 15 years.
Inflation has been out-pacing wages for quite some time.
Home prices in Silicon Valley are artificially inflated. It has nothing to do with the national economy, and everything to do with the local and state economies. Using Silicon Valley as proof that the national economy is bad shows total ignorance of how housing markets work.
Also, the median household income in the United States is $63k. That's enough to buy or rent a decent home in most markets outside of the liberal bastions. If you live in New York City or certain areas of California it probably isn't enough, but that's due to local rather than national economic policies.
All economies are local! By the way, it is easy for one to "pick a date" and say stocks are up 0-4%. That is somewhat disingenuous. What have they done since Trump was elected? What have they done over the last few months! You can make it look however you want. Most people I know are pretty happy with the current state of the stock market!
That's one reason people move out of California. I know someone who had a two bed one bath bungalow in SoCal, sold it and with the money bought a large house with lakefront property in Texas.
I sold my 2br 2ba house in East Side San Jose and bought a 20 acre Horse place back in the midwest with the equity....16 yrs in the Bay Area. Man was I glad to get out.....
I sold my 2br 2ba house in East Side San Jose and bought a 20 acre Horse place back in the midwest with the equity....16 yrs in the Bay Area. Man was I glad to get out.....
If you spent 16 years there you were probably glad to get in also.
I left WV in less than a year and TN in less than 3 once I decided they were not for me.
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