[quote=sdcellar]Sorry, but I don’t think it’s gotten *that* much nicer in the last 10 years. Cheap money is the significant driver.[/quote]
No.
There has been a national shift in housing preference.
But that preference does not translate into demand.
The cheap money you reference does.
But the reason people spend $400,000 (which seems like a lot of money to me) on a 2br/1ba place in South Park when they could buy a 4br/2ba house in Santee is preference.
Lots of people who come here really have a jones for urban living.
See, that why I’m *urban* realtor with the condos and the walking….and the stuff…