perspective

[geekchick]

I found a link to this reading friendsfriends. 46 acre farm with pond and views of Mt. Shasta. $392,000. I don't like the house itself at all, but...

46 acres. $392,000.

My next door neighbor's 2200-ish sf *townhouse* listed at $499,000, and the one three doors down sold for over half a million.

Yeah, I know: lower salaries, lower cost of living, lack of job market, all that. But still...
Sheesh.

Would be a good place to go retire and raise my goats, ya think? (I'd have plenty of room to get them a trampoline.)

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Our .20 acre lot with a tiny, major-fixer-upper house in Fremont went for $525k.

I grew up 4 houses down from "Shasta View Drive," and we could see Shasta from the roof. I love that region, I was conceived there. (Haven't clicked through the link.) Mom was raised up there. It's at least as conservative as anything in West Virginia.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

BIEBER! Damn! That's remote, but just gorgeous. But very remote. But gorgeous. That's on the way up to Alturas, where I was conceived and where Mom's dad was the town doctor in the thirties.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh, and job market there:

Cattle-ranching (including providing summer pasturage to horses and cows from drier parts of California, we used to truck our cows to Burney in the summer)
Logging
Providing services to cattle-ranchers and loggers
Selling bait to anglers
Selling snack food to deer hunters

[geekchick]

Yeah, I'd really like to live there, but I don't want to live there, if you know what I mean.

[geekchick]

Someone I work with was telling me about an ad they saw someplace that read something like "Congratulations, you've finally got the million-dollar home you always wanted! Too bad it's a 900-square-foot bungalow in San Jose."

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Sad thing is, the Sj Mercury ran that ad four years ago about Palo Alto. Now its true about parts of San Jose as well.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Hey, I could be at your doorstep in mere hours, there. :)

Here... my tiny 1100sf fixer-upper in Mountain View appraises for $740K, the houses next door and across the street sold for more... I couldn't afford to live here if I didn't already have a place.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Good place to go and write books too!

Hey - if I sold my flat in London I could afford that!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Goat cheese. :)

Do it!

[pdx42.livejournal.com]

It would also put you a lot closer to me. :)

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

telecommuting should be more popular with employers.

[geekchick]

No kidding. My current employer's not so big on that idea, unfortunately.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Can I/we come with? ;-)