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To: Road Walker who wrote (233933)	5/20/2005 8:46:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574606

re: You can live a decent life without owning a house. Of course rents are also probably expensive in the area where you live, but in a lot of the country they are not. I live in an area that is considered cheap... certainly compared with major cities (where the good jobs are). Of course everything is relative, but you if you live in an area where the wages are realtively high then the housing costs are also going to be relatively high. And the only reason Tampa is comparatively cheap is because housing prices did not start to increase dramatically until the late 1990s. My cousin did his internship/residency in Tampa and then decided to set up his practice in Ocala in the early ninties. He had a hell of a time selling his house. At that time, I checked historical housing prices for the Tampa area and due to a high rate of housing production since the 1970s, housing prices had hardly changed for more than a decade. Production was higher than demand because Tampa had lots of flat land on which to build. Had Tampa's housing market boomed like CA's and the NE's did during the 1980s or like the entire western US in the 1990s, it would not be a very cheap place to live right now.