Posted on 03/01/2018 6:42:42 AM PST by grundle
They can’t wait until everyone is packed like sardines into high rises and using mass transit to go anywhere. Then the Liberals will be happy - more cities with which to demand federal subsidies for mass transit.
Problems like these shift California’s to other states. Not cool. Same for pr. They will stay in florida.
Friends and their adult kids are leaving the San Fran Peninsula. Often the kids move first to cheaper places with jobs and the parents follow. The old family “rancher” gets listed for $2M to $3M and is sold in four days. The newly rich will then either tear it down or extensively remodel it and park their Tesla and BMW in the driveway.
Two of our kids have left California and I have no doubt #3 will follow. This is no place to start a life or raise a family.
Meanwhile, along El Camino Real, tens of thousands of apartments and condos have been built in the past eight years from South San Francisco to San Jose, driving traffic on secondary roads to insane levels. What were quiet country roads 40 years ago are not clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic. Waze is sending traffic onto once-quiet neighborhood streets driving resident crazy. Tensions rise with prices and traffic and it seems like everybody is on edge and rude these days, much more so than 40 years ago when you could count on every car stopping for you if you even got near a crosswalk. Today you have to be ultra-cautious to not get run over.
On the bright side, we’ve got a nice three-day rainstorm on us, so there’s a bit of drought relief happening.
We finally pulled the trigger on a second home in the Idaho panhandle and we are SO looking forward to spending April to October there to get away from this.
There isn’t a person we’ve talked to who moved away from here who hasn’t said “I am SO happy I left that nutty place. I should have moved years ago.”
I bought a 900 sq foot house (INCLUDING one car garage!) on a 6,000 sq foot lot in Palo Alto in 1978 for $100,000 (11X or 12X my salary at the time), an astronomical amount then. I’d scrimped and saved during my five years in a field service engineering job to build up a 25% down payment. During my field service years, I never had a home and lived 100% on the road. House prices had about doubled in five years and I was scared to death I was buying in at the peak and would get wiped out.
I told dear old Dad what I’d bought. I can still hear his voice loud and clear: “Son, that was the STUPIDEST thing you’ve ever done.” His background and frame of reference didn’t let him understand the economic potential of this area.
We had to sell that starter house to move up. Sure wish we hadn’t sold it and made it into a rental!
Let them devour each other in an ideological fight.
The Left always ends up involved in a circular firing squad.
Our daughter moved there to go back to school and just bought a house there. Heading toward Boulder, it’s now nothing but a gigantic sea of houses, condos and townhomes. Wow, is it crowded there!
When I was a kid the country had 150 million people. Today it’s 340 million. No new cities have been built in the past 150 years. Most of those new 190 million people are packed into existing cities and suburbs. It really shows.
“Now if you are an Illegal Alien with a couple Illegitimate Illegal Alien kids, EVERYTHING IS FREE!!!”.
So, if that be true, there should be NO PAYMENT of taxpayer funds going to the apartment owners either.
Any way we can help fan the flames?
Four people sharing a one bedroom. That can't be very pretty.
It goes something like this: "How can I find cheap labor to clean my house, mow my lawn and vacuum my pool without allowing cheap housing and Wal-Marts anywhere near my house?"
This is a job for high-speed rail, right?
Californians are jealous of the commie Venezuelans ... they’re fighting for equal status with the world’s sh*tholes...
“You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye.”
You couldn’t afford it today.
You are correct, I couldn’t
And I couldn’t even rent the same house today (which is one good reason to buy rather then rent)
We stay because we have roots here now, and because we are too old to move away from our family support system.
If I was in my 40s I would be thinking about moving.
For many Californians, the housing crisis has become “a feeling of tightness in their chests and in their jaws,” said Brian Hanlon, a prominent housing activist, “because they have this sense that there is no future for them here.”
That’s because there is no future in these California city sh*tholes.
High speed rail brings inner city criminals to upper middle class "CHEAP LABOR' paradises...
California's becoming a third world hellhole: small numbers of uber rich 'elites' and large numbers of poverty stricken homeless, beggars, and gut wrenching human misery. No middle class... Sh*thole status.
hive housing around train stations.
The reality will be what you see now - tent cities and cardboard condos out in urban ghettos, and smelly buses linking the peons to their work in the hills.
Paradise or dystopia, depending on which end of the bus line you live on.
It’s expensive in Massachusetts too, but I love it here. It’s sometimes awkward being a conservative here amongst many liberals but not as bad as you think. We bought a singl family house in Boston in 2003 for $330k. Sold it in 2013 for $650k. It was on the market for less than 3 days.
Moved to the burbs south of Boston where I grew up in 2013. Bought a 4,000 sq ft house on 2.5 acres that abuts a 600 acre nature preserve. Feel like we got it for a steal at $703k. According to our realtor it’s worth about $850k now. We’re staying put though. My three young sons love it here.
The “no shit Sherlock” point is if you want to live in a nice place it’s usually friggin expensive.
You left out all the money the illegals cost California taxpayers due to the crimes they commit (police/jail/prison costs). Money that could also be better spent elsewhere.
I moved out of Calif when I was 65 and built up a place for my horses in N Nevada. Paid for new property free & clear & built it up to more than 2 X what I started with. Taxes here are less than $700 a year.
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