Supercool site, Dude!
I just got back from picking up my older from his Oddysey of the Mind practice, the coach is a computer geek, most of the other kids dads are, too, I mean computers for a living.
I was asking him about setting up a discussion thread kinda like SI only not so fancy, for a class I am taking at George Mason, and he was explaining what to use, and he mentioned how much tech work there is these days. Which reminded me, I have been going through my recycle bin trying to find an article I read this week in the Washington Post, something like 35,000 tech jobs are vacant in the D.C. metro area, and employers are going to Silicon Valley and Boston to try to recruit. Some of the selling points are cheaper real estate and shorter commutes. I can't find the article, but apparently people in Silicon Valley take for granted two hour commutes and $1 million houses if they live in town.
In this area, the tech jobs are out in the burbs, so a commute can't be more than a half hour, unless you make the mistake of living in Virginia and commuting to Maryland or something like that. The houses in my neighborhood (built in the 1960's) sell for around $160,000 for three bedrooms and 1/4 acre. However, the new houses being built astound me, they cost about $325,000 to $400,000, but the lots are less than 1/5 acre, and the houses are humongous, they go almost to the lot line. These houses are being built like mushrooms just 1/2 a mile from me. We used to live on the edge of development, and west of us was undeveloped. Now it is all being developed, and people are gobbling these bizarre houses up. I don't understand the mentality.
I wonder, if the stock market does crash, or deflate, or revert to the norm, or whatever, will these people still have jobs, and will they still be able to pay $1,800 a month notes? |
