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Pittsbirg's economy is no longer based on steel; it hasn't been for a long time. And rjf1958 is absolutely right about the city; it's doing very well now.
You've never lived anywhere but in the Bay Area, OP, and it shows. You know next to nothing about what the rest of the country is actually like. Frankly, moving out of the Bay Area, at least for a time, would be good for you.
Jesus H. No kidding. OP is a 2 year old throwing a tantrum. He has about as much chance of "taking babes home" as he has of "finding gold in them thar hills".
This. Eureka ca and crescent city have the same weather but no jobs because people are too dumb to scroll up in google maps and so they haven't discovered them yet.
Hmmmm. Entitled, too delicate to handle different climates, glass half empty and insulting.
Get off the internet, jump in your car and take a cross country road trip and see what real life is like for the other 99.9% that don't live in the Bay area. You really have an unrealistic view of how typical families live in America.
Hmmmm. Entitled, too delicate to handle different climates, glass half empty and insulting.
Get off the internet, jump in your car and take a cross country road trip and see what real life is like for the other 99.9% that don't live in the Bay area. You really have an unrealistic view of how typical families live in America.
I have. I've been to the Central Valley. That's a good proxy for 95% of the country's landmass.
Jesus H. No kidding. OP is a 2 year old throwing a tantrum. He has about as much chance of "taking babes home" as he has of "finding gold in them thar hills".
Bright eyed midwestern kids come to the Bay Area to "find gold in them thar hills" except gold in this case is becoming a start up CEO.
Vancouver CA had a similar boom in housing, primarily from Chinese buying property. Canada just instituted a high tax on foreign buyers, which has cooled the market quickly. Wall St Journal reported prices have dropped 32% recently.
Not even close. A 32% would be a massive crash and made headlines around the world. Vancouver will still rank as the most unaffordable city in NA.
I have friends back home who are the same way. Complain about their situation a lot and an unwillingness to do any little thing about it.. They do have plenty of excuses though.
OP doesn't really want to be a homeowner. As pointed out to him many times, basically ANYwhere else in the country, it would be possible, no, easy, for him. SF Bay has some of the most expensive real estate on the planet and you don't make enough money for it. I'm sorry.
There's nothing any of us can say when you're dead set on one place and convinced, literally, that the rest of the country is all strip malls in the desert or blizzards.
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