LOL Nor LA SD. Yeah I fall in the minion category myself.
Personally am seeing the same thing as sdr says in the high and middle high end. I have a client shopping in Fairbanks and Olivenhein in the 1.5-2.0 range and he has a few properties pegged that he got outbid on as he tried to lowball them. We had a flip in CV and it was swarmed as well.