[quote=deadzone][quote=sdrealtor][quote=XBoxBoy][quote=deadzone]Long term, it will take strong growth in high paying industry to keep prices high here.[/quote]

Don’t count this possibility out. Suppose for a second that your are correct that work from home is a temporary thing. People who have moved here and then are told they have to report back to an office in LA or Silicon Valley. What do they do? You seem to assume they move back. I on the other hand assume they quit and start their own companies here in SD. Some of these companies will fail, but some will succeed. We could have the next Google, or Facebook, or Apple, here in SD. There is no reason those types of companies have to be in Silicon Valley.[/quote]

Exactly. Or two kids in a dorm at UCSD come up with the next tech unicorn. There are so many possible paths to this happening here. Not just one

And skateboarding is blowing up worldwide. The epicenter of talent and industry is right here in Encinitas. One more log on the fire[/quote]

Skateboarding? Seriously? Skateboarding blew up in the 70s FYI.[/quote]

So out of touch. It blew up here in the 70s and spread to some urban areas. Now it’s globalizing. Of course it won’t be anything on the scale of tech but up here could be hundreds of millions if not a billion dollar industry far beyond what it is now. It’s one more log on the fire