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June 17, 2011 at 1:41 PM #705524June 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM #704350
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ParticipantBG, you seem to fail to understand that I’m not comparing custom to tract home. If you want to compare custom to custom, then compare Del Mar to any place in SV that’s w/in 1 mile of the water and have top school. Then tell me how much it cost to buy a comparable house. You’re the one who’s comparing apples to oranges. I’m asking you to compare apple to apple. You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. I want to live w/in my mean, which mean buying a place that’s ~3x my income and that place have to be w/in 3-4 miles from work. There’s NOTHING that would satisfy those criteria in SV. Whether you dislike tract house or not is irrelevant. I don’t have a disdain for tract house like you do. Like Brian said, a house is a house. I disdain a poorly layout house. So if a custom home have horribly layout floor plan, then I view those in much worse light than a similar size, better layout, tract house.
June 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM #704444ParticipantBG, you seem to fail to understand that I’m not comparing custom to tract home. If you want to compare custom to custom, then compare Del Mar to any place in SV that’s w/in 1 mile of the water and have top school. Then tell me how much it cost to buy a comparable house. You’re the one who’s comparing apples to oranges. I’m asking you to compare apple to apple. You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. I want to live w/in my mean, which mean buying a place that’s ~3x my income and that place have to be w/in 3-4 miles from work. There’s NOTHING that would satisfy those criteria in SV. Whether you dislike tract house or not is irrelevant. I don’t have a disdain for tract house like you do. Like Brian said, a house is a house. I disdain a poorly layout house. So if a custom home have horribly layout floor plan, then I view those in much worse light than a similar size, better layout, tract house.
June 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM #705038ParticipantBG, you seem to fail to understand that I’m not comparing custom to tract home. If you want to compare custom to custom, then compare Del Mar to any place in SV that’s w/in 1 mile of the water and have top school. Then tell me how much it cost to buy a comparable house. You’re the one who’s comparing apples to oranges. I’m asking you to compare apple to apple. You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. I want to live w/in my mean, which mean buying a place that’s ~3x my income and that place have to be w/in 3-4 miles from work. There’s NOTHING that would satisfy those criteria in SV. Whether you dislike tract house or not is irrelevant. I don’t have a disdain for tract house like you do. Like Brian said, a house is a house. I disdain a poorly layout house. So if a custom home have horribly layout floor plan, then I view those in much worse light than a similar size, better layout, tract house.
June 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM #705189ParticipantBG, you seem to fail to understand that I’m not comparing custom to tract home. If you want to compare custom to custom, then compare Del Mar to any place in SV that’s w/in 1 mile of the water and have top school. Then tell me how much it cost to buy a comparable house. You’re the one who’s comparing apples to oranges. I’m asking you to compare apple to apple. You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. I want to live w/in my mean, which mean buying a place that’s ~3x my income and that place have to be w/in 3-4 miles from work. There’s NOTHING that would satisfy those criteria in SV. Whether you dislike tract house or not is irrelevant. I don’t have a disdain for tract house like you do. Like Brian said, a house is a house. I disdain a poorly layout house. So if a custom home have horribly layout floor plan, then I view those in much worse light than a similar size, better layout, tract house.
June 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM #705548ParticipantBG, you seem to fail to understand that I’m not comparing custom to tract home. If you want to compare custom to custom, then compare Del Mar to any place in SV that’s w/in 1 mile of the water and have top school. Then tell me how much it cost to buy a comparable house. You’re the one who’s comparing apples to oranges. I’m asking you to compare apple to apple. You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. I want to live w/in my mean, which mean buying a place that’s ~3x my income and that place have to be w/in 3-4 miles from work. There’s NOTHING that would satisfy those criteria in SV. Whether you dislike tract house or not is irrelevant. I don’t have a disdain for tract house like you do. Like Brian said, a house is a house. I disdain a poorly layout house. So if a custom home have horribly layout floor plan, then I view those in much worse light than a similar size, better layout, tract house.
June 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM #704360Participant[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]There is no comparison to a custom house built on a custom lot (say sitting on top of a mountain or backing to a forest) to a tract home, the custom home will easily cost 2-5 times as much to build as a tract home. And having 2-5 acres to call your own is sometimes a pain and sometimes a life saver.
But having everyone living in high rise Condo’s in the city seems like the current administrations plan so …[/quote]
The same thing can be said in reverse. There’s no comparison to a tract house on a large lot with ocean or canyon or forest view to a custom home that’s stuffed in a 4k-5k sq-ft lot with a view of your neighbor.I don’t buy for one bit that it cost 2-5 times to build a custom homes vs a tract home. The cost of permit can’t possibly be that expensive.
June 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM #704454Participant[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]There is no comparison to a custom house built on a custom lot (say sitting on top of a mountain or backing to a forest) to a tract home, the custom home will easily cost 2-5 times as much to build as a tract home. And having 2-5 acres to call your own is sometimes a pain and sometimes a life saver.
But having everyone living in high rise Condo’s in the city seems like the current administrations plan so …[/quote]
The same thing can be said in reverse. There’s no comparison to a tract house on a large lot with ocean or canyon or forest view to a custom home that’s stuffed in a 4k-5k sq-ft lot with a view of your neighbor.I don’t buy for one bit that it cost 2-5 times to build a custom homes vs a tract home. The cost of permit can’t possibly be that expensive.
June 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM #705048Participant[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]There is no comparison to a custom house built on a custom lot (say sitting on top of a mountain or backing to a forest) to a tract home, the custom home will easily cost 2-5 times as much to build as a tract home. And having 2-5 acres to call your own is sometimes a pain and sometimes a life saver.
But having everyone living in high rise Condo’s in the city seems like the current administrations plan so …[/quote]
The same thing can be said in reverse. There’s no comparison to a tract house on a large lot with ocean or canyon or forest view to a custom home that’s stuffed in a 4k-5k sq-ft lot with a view of your neighbor.I don’t buy for one bit that it cost 2-5 times to build a custom homes vs a tract home. The cost of permit can’t possibly be that expensive.
June 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM #705199Participant[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]There is no comparison to a custom house built on a custom lot (say sitting on top of a mountain or backing to a forest) to a tract home, the custom home will easily cost 2-5 times as much to build as a tract home. And having 2-5 acres to call your own is sometimes a pain and sometimes a life saver.
But having everyone living in high rise Condo’s in the city seems like the current administrations plan so …[/quote]
The same thing can be said in reverse. There’s no comparison to a tract house on a large lot with ocean or canyon or forest view to a custom home that’s stuffed in a 4k-5k sq-ft lot with a view of your neighbor.I don’t buy for one bit that it cost 2-5 times to build a custom homes vs a tract home. The cost of permit can’t possibly be that expensive.
June 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM #705559Participant[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]There is no comparison to a custom house built on a custom lot (say sitting on top of a mountain or backing to a forest) to a tract home, the custom home will easily cost 2-5 times as much to build as a tract home. And having 2-5 acres to call your own is sometimes a pain and sometimes a life saver.
But having everyone living in high rise Condo’s in the city seems like the current administrations plan so …[/quote]
The same thing can be said in reverse. There’s no comparison to a tract house on a large lot with ocean or canyon or forest view to a custom home that’s stuffed in a 4k-5k sq-ft lot with a view of your neighbor.I don’t buy for one bit that it cost 2-5 times to build a custom homes vs a tract home. The cost of permit can’t possibly be that expensive.
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM #704373briansd1
Guest[quote=AN] You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. [/quote]
That’s an excellent point. Living within your means in a comfortable house close to work is the key. That’s a sustainable lifestyle that mimizes stress, urban sprawl and environmental degradation.
Not everybody in Silicon Valley is well-paid. In fact, the majority does not work as well-paid high-tech professionals.
The zoning and builing restrictions in the Bay Area suck. They keep housing expensive for everyone and people end up living in musty old houses, or they commute 3 hours per day.
People tolerate the poor housing conditions in the Bay Area because of the work opportunities.
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM #704467Guest[quote=AN] You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. [/quote]
That’s an excellent point. Living within your means in a comfortable house close to work is the key. That’s a sustainable lifestyle that mimizes stress, urban sprawl and environmental degradation.
Not everybody in Silicon Valley is well-paid. In fact, the majority does not work as well-paid high-tech professionals.
The zoning and builing restrictions in the Bay Area suck. They keep housing expensive for everyone and people end up living in musty old houses, or they commute 3 hours per day.
People tolerate the poor housing conditions in the Bay Area because of the work opportunities.
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM #705061Guest[quote=AN] You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. [/quote]
That’s an excellent point. Living within your means in a comfortable house close to work is the key. That’s a sustainable lifestyle that mimizes stress, urban sprawl and environmental degradation.
Not everybody in Silicon Valley is well-paid. In fact, the majority does not work as well-paid high-tech professionals.
The zoning and builing restrictions in the Bay Area suck. They keep housing expensive for everyone and people end up living in musty old houses, or they commute 3 hours per day.
People tolerate the poor housing conditions in the Bay Area because of the work opportunities.
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM #705212Guest[quote=AN] You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. [/quote]
That’s an excellent point. Living within your means in a comfortable house close to work is the key. That’s a sustainable lifestyle that mimizes stress, urban sprawl and environmental degradation.
Not everybody in Silicon Valley is well-paid. In fact, the majority does not work as well-paid high-tech professionals.
The zoning and builing restrictions in the Bay Area suck. They keep housing expensive for everyone and people end up living in musty old houses, or they commute 3 hours per day.
People tolerate the poor housing conditions in the Bay Area because of the work opportunities.
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