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To: Scumbria who wrote (104378)	4/12/2000 4:37:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577064

Scumbria, Valley housing costs are the price you pay for being able to quit your current job, cross the street and have another. Steve

To: Scumbria who wrote (104378)	4/12/2000 4:40:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577064

OT Re: "Message #104378 from Scumbria at Apr 12 2000 4:32PM Tim, House prices here are kind of high and growing but nothing like Silicon Valley prices. Silicon Valley home prices are hard to compare against. Not only are houses expensive here, but for the most part they are junk. A $500,000 house in Mountain View would be condemned in most parts of the country. Scumbria That doesn't make much sense to me. I can understand why the houses are so expensive but it seems to me that if you had to pay so much for a house you would want it to be of decent quality. Adding more land would cost a lot more, but the potential supply of quality materials to use to build a house isn't nearly so constrained. If materials become very expensive in Silicon Valley, then producers of quality materials would have an insentive to make more and move them into the area. Portable materials would still cost more there but the increase should be far less then the increase in the cost of land. Tim