I appreciated all of your comments and in many ways you all are very right. DWCAP you pretty much nailed it with everything you said. Bearishgurl, your suggestion that I have imprinted expectations is spot on. I do, but is that wrong or a sign of SD being overpriced? I also understand you alls offense to my rantings of the irresponsibility of Californians. I have been harsh and maybe unduly.
To that sentiment, let me clarify. I am upset with the aggregate. I am sure many of you are very responsible. I have many responsible character filled friends here. My wife grew up in Irvine. There are wonderful people in S. California, but there seems to be more dumb ones than elsewhere.
As I said before…I am upset with the fact that things not not what they should be. I do not think they should be equal to MN prices. But a rent vs buy calculation should not be so lopsided for a starter. These are “shoulds,” or signs of a strong safe market. Do I think they will actually happen? Its very very very unlikely. So I am not trying predicting the future. I am only giving rationale for why I have wanted to leave.
I compare SD to Minneapolis, because they are the two cities I am most familiar with. Are they going to agree, no, and that is fine. There is just so many signs of the an-affordability of SD, and I wanted to rant and rave about it. Thank you all for participating.
sdr your comment about ‘it is what it is’ is completely true. I can not change the market through my frustration. I can only leave, and hopefully move my wife’s family out too 🙂
But we will be back (if my wife has anything to do with it), and I hope it is different when we do.
