Precisely. That is why I wrote in my post from Saturday (Nostradumbass Strikes Back) that I don't care about house prices anymore because that is the least of my concerns at the moment. My bigger concern is how to remain employed at a high salary…and I currently work at a well known SD Start Up company (featured on Good Morning America quite frequently).

JWM,

I wish you the best of luck. I've been at numerous startups when I was still in the Bay Area. I've seen enough to know that startups are great for a few people: mainly the managing board, exec's, and VCs. Everyone else get's screwed. I guess I got lucky, because of all the startups I were at, I moved up everytime I moved, and the ones I were at either went public or  I was long gone before a hemmorage occured. Times have changed… I like working at a larger company with a presence in SD.