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Everything is better here in CA except for cost of living, constant water issues (which will never go away due to politics and our ever growing water demand vs naturally arid climate), atrocious air quality, general pissy attitude of the residents, and so on.
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Same with the inland empire IMO
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#1807
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There's a townhouse right up the street from me here for $350k, and you'll be locked into a great school district. Sadly, we rent ours and have little desire to buy and tie ourselves to property, we used to live in the midwest in a major metro area and paid $150k for a nice house out there, easily worth $500k or more in some areas here, and we still took a 10% loss when we sold in 2012.
#1808
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There's a townhouse right up the street from me here for $350k, and you'll be locked into a great school district. Sadly, we rent ours and have little desire to buy and tie ourselves to property, we used to live in the midwest in a major metro area and paid $150k for a nice house out there, easily worth $500k or more in some areas here, and we still took a 10% loss when we sold in 2012.
a nice 1-br condominium here in NoVa is about that price, and that doesn't include another $500 or so in HOA fees...
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Boston suburbs are pretty expensive, 400 bucks a square foot in the nice suburbs. Nothing compared to San Jose, from what I've heard though. San Jose has enclaves full of people my age with people spending almost a grand a square foot for large houses. But I heard close to that you can have pretty unsafe areas.
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Coldwell Banker used to do a ranking of Division 1 college football programs based on the average home price in that town. If I remember correctly, Stanford (Palo Alto) was ranked No. 1 and Boston College (Chestnut Hill/Newton) was No. 2.
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Boston suburbs are pretty expensive, 400 bucks a square foot in the nice suburbs. Nothing compared to San Jose, from what I've heard though. San Jose has enclaves full of people my age with people spending almost a grand a square foot for large houses. But I heard close to that you can have pretty unsafe areas.
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There's a townhouse right up the street from me here for $350k, and you'll be locked into a great school district. Sadly, we rent ours and have little desire to buy and tie ourselves to property, we used to live in the midwest in a major metro area and paid $150k for a nice house out there, easily worth $500k or more in some areas here, and we still took a 10% loss when we sold in 2012.
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#1815
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When I lived in Boston a few years back people told me that living near good schools was meaningless because they still did random lottery and busing, so no matter if you lived next to a school, your kids might not go there. Is that no longer the case? Of course, suburbs might be a different story, but the people telling me this lived in Back Ban and on Beacon Hill and places like that downtown.
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School choice, charter schools, and the constant increase of special education is breaking that location mold.
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I live in Redwood City on the Atherton border. Atherton is the most expensive house/avg dealie in the country, Redwood City has the best climate by government test!
It was expensive to buy a house here, but since we bought 2 years ago the valuation has gone up 300k.
It was expensive to buy a house here, but since we bought 2 years ago the valuation has gone up 300k.
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Austin is a good mix. It's more expensive than Houston, but you can get pretty high end suburban homes 10 miles from downtown for ~$150/sq ft.
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You take that back now!
The IE all around is pretty bad, but its a big area. We moved out of our old neighborhood in San Bernardino because there was a series of homicides and home invasions targeting white families with nice cars. We were one of the few white families in the area, which I've been accustomed to but 3 dead within 2 miles was too much. The area I'm in now is pretty nice, most millionaires tied down to this region live on this hill. The town also has a massive cycling community. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those millionaires.
We always talk about moving but both of us have good jobs, I have an amazing retirement (80% at 60), and a good home. It's hard to walk away from all that.
We were in Boston last week and stayed in a 'bad' area (Dorchester) which other than stray pit bulls all over the place was nice. Once you've visited West Oakland, the bar for bad neighborhoods is pretty high.
The IE all around is pretty bad, but its a big area. We moved out of our old neighborhood in San Bernardino because there was a series of homicides and home invasions targeting white families with nice cars. We were one of the few white families in the area, which I've been accustomed to but 3 dead within 2 miles was too much. The area I'm in now is pretty nice, most millionaires tied down to this region live on this hill. The town also has a massive cycling community. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those millionaires.
We always talk about moving but both of us have good jobs, I have an amazing retirement (80% at 60), and a good home. It's hard to walk away from all that.
We were in Boston last week and stayed in a 'bad' area (Dorchester) which other than stray pit bulls all over the place was nice. Once you've visited West Oakland, the bar for bad neighborhoods is pretty high.
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You take that back now!
The IE all around is pretty bad, but its a big area. We moved out of our old neighborhood in San Bernardino because there was a series of homicides and home invasions targeting white families with nice cars. We were one of the few white families in the area, which I've been accustomed to but 3 dead within 2 miles was too much. The area I'm in now is pretty nice, most millionaires tied down to this region live on this hill. The town also has a massive cycling community. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those millionaires.
We always talk about moving but both of us have good jobs, I have an amazing retirement (80% at 60), and a good home. It's hard to walk away from all that.
We were in Boston last week and stayed in a 'bad' area (Dorchester) which other than stray pit bulls all over the place was nice. Once you've visited West Oakland, the bar for bad neighborhoods is pretty high.
The IE all around is pretty bad, but its a big area. We moved out of our old neighborhood in San Bernardino because there was a series of homicides and home invasions targeting white families with nice cars. We were one of the few white families in the area, which I've been accustomed to but 3 dead within 2 miles was too much. The area I'm in now is pretty nice, most millionaires tied down to this region live on this hill. The town also has a massive cycling community. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those millionaires.
We always talk about moving but both of us have good jobs, I have an amazing retirement (80% at 60), and a good home. It's hard to walk away from all that.
We were in Boston last week and stayed in a 'bad' area (Dorchester) which other than stray pit bulls all over the place was nice. Once you've visited West Oakland, the bar for bad neighborhoods is pretty high.
There is nice wine and countryside in the south by Temecula, and there is access to great hiking and nature on the north and eastern ends. I just got back from a weekend-long company camping trip in Idyllwild, involving a day-hike up San Jacinto.
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I did that the other day. They still fit .... sort of.
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Feels like a relief to be done with public schools. We're "un-schooling" our 14 year old.
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