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Old 03-23-2008, 10:42 AM
 
Location: San Antonio Texas
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^^ Exhibit A of the attitude of those old enough to have originally acquired property in California years ago at reasonable prices.
you've got a good point there.
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Old 03-23-2008, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Eureka CA
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Default "Visit California"

I would advise not ietting a radio station in Texas do your thinking for you.
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Old 03-23-2008, 11:26 AM
 
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Why do you have to hijack every thread with this same old complaint? Especially since you know it's not true. As you know from our previous discussions, we both were pretty much in the same situation. We both lived in OC. And we both were faced with exorbitant housing prices.

Except for one big difference. You obviously paid too much for your OC house. We choose not to and moved out to the desert so we could buy a cheap house that we could actually afford. Now that we're making more money and don't owe much on our current house, we can actually afford to move back to the coast again.

So don't make me out to be one of these people who just happened to luck out and bought back when California coastal prices were really cheap. Nothing could be further from the truth ...

What I did do is live within my means, which has now put me in a great position to take advantage of falling housing prices.
Well good for you. But I don't have the type to life that I can just easily pick up and move out to BFE, then pick up and move again when housing prices are more favorable. And I'd rather rent a garage from illegals in Santa Ana than live in the desert. Blech!
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Old 03-23-2008, 12:16 PM
 
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Well good for you. But I don't have the type to life that I can just easily pick up and move out to BFE, then pick up and move again when housing prices are more favorable. And I'd rather rent a garage from illegals in Santa Ana than live in the desert. Blech!
Fine ... that was your choice. You chose to pay a fortune for a house in OC, I didn't. There were many people like me who chose to move to more affordable locations in the state.

However, that does not mean that 95 percent of Californians are struggling to make ends meet like you are.

I do have the type of life where I can pick up and move because I planned it that way. In the end, no one is a victim of anything but their own choices.

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Old 03-23-2008, 12:19 PM
 
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you've got a good point there.
Again ... Escape California is being completely misleading here. I DID NOT buy my house when California coastal prices were cheap. When coastal prices got high I moved out to the desert so I could buy cheap there ...

Please read the previous posts.

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Old 03-23-2008, 01:47 PM
 
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I would advise not ietting a radio station in Texas do your thinking for you.
I wasn't...I was asking for California Residents to give their two cents on the subject...
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:29 PM
 
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The ad is marketing and when you market a product i.e. Califorina is the product of course you are going to make it great and California is a great place to Visit or live!

Ask all the tourist that come here or the investors who buy here.

There truly is no place like it........In my humble opinion!
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Old 03-25-2008, 11:57 PM
 
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^^ Exhibit A of the attitude of those old enough to have originally acquired property in California years ago at reasonable prices.
I disagree - I'm in my 30s, and by the standards of many places in the country, I did not acquire my house at a reasonable price. However, what I DID do was buy a small house that needed a lot of work, and we did most of the work ourselves. My house is less than 1200 square feet, it has no yard to speak of, but I love my neighborhood and my neighbors and wouldn't trade it.

Like you, I don't care for the desert, but you also couldn't pay me to live in Orange County. I wouldn't fit in with the "Stepford Wives" down there.

Honestly, if you're that unhappy here, why not move? 12 years ago I was living in DC and I despised it, so I left. Your choices are just that - YOUR choices. No one to blame for them but yourself.
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Old 03-26-2008, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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you dont have to be rich to drive along Hy 1 and enjoy the sights. You dont have to be rich to eat great here and you certainly dont have to be rich to enjoy our sights-heck the price of admission to SF is only $4*LOL*
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Old 03-26-2008, 02:14 PM
 
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I think EscapeCalifornia does have a point...it all depends on the perspective of personal wealth...Escape...grew up in California and probably just wanted to live in the state that he was raised in...it is hard to believe that in socal a home that appraised for $190,000 back in the mid 90's now appraises for around $600,000...I don't know if my figures are correct...whether or not he overdid himself with the property he bought...I dunno exactly, but I'm sure a lot of people are in his situation...I still wanna check the golden state out though...maybe the real estate will drop enough to where it is "semi-affordable" on a good California salary...
Yo, 18Montclair...are you referring to the tolls on the bridges that go into sf?
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