sdr, perhaps we haven’t tried hard enough, these things don’t just happen. We are casual members of a local church, and due to seemingly endless sunday baseball, have hard a time getting there regularly enough to meet people. Also I don’t think this is some vibe we give off, I just think people are genuinely more busy. She is also freaking out about the class sizes at Oak Crest. (San Dieguito Jr. High)

The tough part is my job is pretty good, great 401k matching, vacation, etc.

A good chunk of it though is living in such a crappy house compared to what we had in the midwest. Part of the reason the rent is cheap is because the landlords do absolutely nothing to keep the place up. Fence in disrepair. We have tried a few things, but mostly cosmetic, I am not spending serious money to make the place look better.

Today I received word that our neighbors are thinking about moving, and if they do would like us as tenants. Their home is literally twice as nice, and when she heard what we paid, she said so you’d come here for a couple hundred more? Wife was all over that. It would certainly make waiting out the market more palatable.