[quote=Rustico]Anything remotely like a tract home is not good enough…you just expect to live better than the 3rd world is all. Explicame… an engineer,who doesn’t care about cars and clothes, with a wife making a lot more than an engineer, willing to buy a fixer , could have it pretty good in San Diego. Rationale doesn’t make sense to me. You could live in a lot of places that are walkable, not “track home hell”, and pay for private school.What do you do with that engineering salary plus another salary that is a lot more than an engineering salary?[/quote]

Excellent observations, Rustico. I forgot to ask the OP if he and his spouse were going to make salaries comparable to their SD salaries in Placerville. I actually really like Placerville . . . for a retirement locale.