[quote=deadzone]Okay, I guess any topic that you don’t like or agree with is rambling. Got it.[/quote]

Lol, I neither dislike or like the topic. But looking at the initial post, you took 1 news article about 1 big tech company and generalized that to a specific local market condition without much basis or facts. And when multiple people pointed out more credible information to the contrary, you really didn’t like that and glossed over all those other indicators to the contrary.

For every company large or mid-size that is going back hybrid, there’s several others that are remote. But regardless of remote or not, it’s not only contributing factor for why more people are living here. All the data also indicate job growth in biotech and life sciences. We posted numerous of credible articles about this both from real estate companies that show commercial RE demand, and also job stats from tech articles and a bunch of other sources…more than any sort of “fact/data” you posted to support your opinions….All these articles which you glossed over again and either ignored or denied are factual..and continued to ramble your opinion that you posted in the beginning of this thread…You brought no new data, besides 1 or 2 or 3 new articles that talk about 1 specific employer…And you conveniently glossed over the article about 3 Roots and 14000 applicants on a waitlist for 200 homes….You also gloss over that the inventory in Mira Mesa is essentially close to 0, despite large a population Mira Mesa is serving.

So it’s not that we don’t like what you are saying, but what you are saying doesn’t make sense.

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You are the one rambling. And SDR with his endless reminders of missed opportunities is not constructive and has no relevance to the present day situation.
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I don’t deny I am not rambling, because that’s sort of what this thread is.

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I am in no way bragging about the success of my gold, just pointing out that it made sense at the time (to me) that that’s where I should focus my investing and that it hasn’t been a bad investment.
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No one said you are bragging about your gold investments. But what you initially said about gold investment made no sense without the additional context that your investment into retail jewelry was primarily achieved by off market activity with a family business, in which you had access to below market valuation for jewelry that is generally not available to anyone else. There’s nothing wrong with that at all, but it’s not something that can be reproducible by your average joe, and from your initial post about gold, it was misleading for others to think that they can simply “invest” in cosmetic 14k jewelry and come out ahead.

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Had I taken all my money and dumped it in RE at that time would I be more wealthy today, hell yes. But on that same token, if I dumped all my money in the Stock market in 2009-2010 I would be so wealthy right now that the current prices of RE would be negligible.
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But that’s also the point i was trying to make. You didn’t need to dump all your money into the stock market to come out ahead. That’s the point of DRIP investment. If you do a little over the course of several years, you wouldn’t need to be market timing to reap some gains… nor would you feel a need to short sell something to try to speculate a gain. Both much higher risk than DRIP.