RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

LMAO. Our house on .6 acre (that house above is .1 acre) with a little more sq footage, built in the same year was 1/4 of that price. lol. One big reason we moved.

Ayoustin

iTrader: (2)

Lol I need to start doing whatever y'all are doing for work. In SC you can build a new 2,500sqft house for low-mid 300s, high 300s if you want a large garage.

Terror Rising

iTrader: (26)

I'm a Director of Engineering and the lady is a CFO. Every time we go visit houses we wonder what in the world people do. Not everyone in the DFW metroplex can be a doctor so where is all of this money coming from? And we live well below our means but our budget started as "let's not go over 450" and now we're on to "I think we can swing 750".

kaj

iTrader: (60)

In my line of work, I make at least twice as much as any other state. I also have the lowest (safest) ratios on the country. I also have the second cheapest living costs in CA for 2021 (which is why bay area peeps are swarming in).
It would take an act of good to get me to move. I love it here.
And I'm still wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

Hahhaha we did the same thing in California but add $200k to each of those numbers. We never thought we could get a house that wasn't a fixer upper in a terrible neighborhood. Then we saw that prices on the East Coast were easily half that and promptly moved. I was in California for 38 years, my wife was in California for 20 years.

The weather here absolutely sucks compared to California though. However, we aren't on fire for six months out of the year.

ViciousLSD

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I think people are so comfortable borrowing money. I admit I am not, which is probably bad. I paid of my house in 5years and buy cars cash

Dallas J

iTrader: (1)

Well, we bought a house for 230k and 100k (mine and wifes), when we sold we got 280 and 130k, rolled that into new house and paid off her student loans. New house was 395k paid down to 330k, sold for 730k. New house build, property, and shop are about 900k but houses that will start after our will start out 25% higher.

It just kinda keeps rolling. If we sold our house next year it would likely be 7figure.

Me - Senior Mech Eng and SSB, Wife - RN. We don't make SF tech salaries but we do well enough.

lv05evo

iTrader: (13)

I think existing home prices will be high for as long as we have high costs for new home material costs. I work in new home construction and we don't see raw lumber coming down through 2023 (probably longer because Socal gets lumber from south america) and processed lumber (anything made from raw lumber, anything MDF, resin). We have to pay more for material which gets passed onto the home buyer through home builders. I have heard getting appliances is very hard and some homes are sold without appliances and just a credit voucher. Strange times.

kaj

iTrader: (60)

That sums it up.

ViciousLSD

iTrader: (2)

firkin lumber is so cheap. they dont even use treated pine wood. realtors/car salesmen are the evil in this world

Jaraxle

Being from upstate NY, I hate the taxes and the long winter. But that is IT. No droughts, hurricanes, tornados, fires, earthquakes, plagues, nothing... just crazy taxes and a yearly winter that sometimes is mild and other time horrible. But it is DEFINED and manageable.
I read an article about a guy doing bitcoin mining and outside was -20F but his pool was 92F (it was his heat exchanger to get rid of the fan noise) and I thought that would certainly help get through the winter!
LOL - or maybe serious?

RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

Apparently, you forgot about the hurricane that went through like five states (one of which was New York) this summer? lol

And yea, whats that about no plagues?

kaj

iTrader: (60)

Interesting take on other states.

alpinaturbo

iTrader: (5)

National news offered by all sources today is super sensational, creating baseless impressions of reality.
The idea what California is like, is distorted even among individuals who live in it, let alone across the nation, sadly.

I have seen nice and not so nice places in all states I visited, and where we settle is function of our own perception of opportunity and value.
My choice is no better then others choice, it's like the food we enjoy, and other choices we make in life.

I see that all of you have a nice lifestyle, and have been flourishing professionally and in your hobbies.
Likely, the creativity enabling you to apply yourself in your automotive hobby, is also enabling you to achieve prosperity.

kaj

iTrader: (60)

Sh! I'm trying to get everyone out of California so I'll have less traffic to contend with.