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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7759)	1/3/2003 1:13:03 AM
From: Conan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

OTOT Lizzie, My wife is one of those people jaypope describes as believing she has the right to live in the Bay Area. I moved her with me to SoCal last year when I sold my San Mateo home and she still misses everything. Sorry to hear about the grocery stores closing, etc... I bet Draegers and Mollie Stones are still open. One job was in the Bay Area for a small SW company based in Atlanta. I was a good fit for my experience but I didn't like the ignorance of their VC board member I talked to on the phone. The other is a venture-backed firm in Santa Barbara that actually has sales growth and is hiring. When a job offer is in writing I will celebrate. I have to take my second pay cut in 18 months if I take it but what the heck. I'll take my 1998 salary today. Even if neither works out the recent pickup in leads indicate things are changing... I'm 37 with a wife and two kids. My Blue shield PPO is $531 per month and dental for 3 is another $106 per month. I have a $35 co-pay on each office visit and something like a $3000 deductible for some things. I hate the co-pays. $8000 a year post tax for a family of 4 is not cheap when you are living on savings and SUI (and co-pays and deductibles are at least another $500.) I know some people paying $800/month for the same. Thankfully I made money on that San Mateo home! I see you are lurking on all the threads I read like Jack Hartmans Q to Q and possibly the Golden Jackass. Perhaps we both have a bit too much time on our hands, eh? What other threads do you like? Conan

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7759)	1/3/2003 1:43:04 AM
From: jaypope	Respond to of 306849

Yet with all this reduction in economic activity, RE still keeps going up (I know it seems to be stabilizing, maybe even turning down already, but the 'official' stats keep show it increasing). I've been up here for two years already and I'm not sure I'll ever get used to the ridiculous prices.