Excellent take on the analogy, but I must say that any wait and any price would be worth it in your version so we really can’t use that version of the analogy it just doesn’t translate, it’s so wonderful it has a “if I won the lottery” feel to it.
Back to reality, while your wife may not accept the bargain areas don’t think for a minute there are enough like her to keep the market propped up. Most couples who have children in S.D. also have a working mom who is bombarded by Dr. Laura, et al, that she should not work and should be home with her kids even if it means a smaller home or a less desirable school district. The next time you have a couple with small kids shopping for R/E and they see an 800k scripps home and a 400k home elsewhere, look to see if there is a twinkle in the woman’s eyes, because she has run the numbers in her head and the numbers equal stay at home mom. Those moms would not live in the ghetto and dodge stray gunfire but they will drop down a notch or two to a decent suburb if the price is right. What happens when that 400k home elsewhere hits 300k, still think nobody will jump lines. They wouldn’t jump when the prices were close and it meant being a working mom and living in a marginal area but we are getting closer to having the middle drop and I know it will take the high with it.
I’m still laughing at a few of those quotes, “prime cuts” “upgrade” “the horror,” that was some of you best work. There was a time in the past I was sloshing around at the Beachcomber, but until they throw in a high speed rail line, my sloshing is confined within taxi range.
