Why I am leaving San Diego

[briansd1]

[quote=Scarlett]
Well said. I totally agree with you. I am afraid those times when an senior engineer or scientist could support a family with kids and a nice home in a nice neighborhood are gone forever. Even with public schools.
Unless you get a major gift or inheritance. Even the large tract homes are too expensive IMHO.[/quote]

Isn’t that what supply and demand and market mechanisms are all about?

What’s so special about a senior engineer or scientist that that person deserves anything at all?

[Scarlett]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Scarlett]
Well said. I totally agree with you. I am afraid those times when an senior engineer or scientist could support a family with kids and a nice home in a nice neighborhood are gone forever. Even with public schools.
Unless you get a major gift or inheritance. Even the large tract homes are too expensive IMHO.[/quote]

Isn’t that what supply and demand and market mechanisms are all about?

What’s so special about a senior engineer or scientist that that person deserves anything at all?[/quote]

What is so special about anybody who had earned a graduate degree, put in 10-15 years of good hard work, that’s what. If you don’t think somebody smart and hard working with a lot of experience would deserve anything…In the past, it was certainly good enough. I believe then the market was relatively free.

How does the supply and demand and market mechanisms applies nowadays in the housing market, huh? I’d like to know that. That is why a person like that cannot afford to raise his family the way he himself was raised…

Edit – I was talking especially about San Diego. In other parts of the country, it can still work.

[Scarlett]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Scarlett]
Well said. I totally agree with you. I am afraid those times when an senior engineer or scientist could support a family with kids and a nice home in a nice neighborhood are gone forever. Even with public schools.
Unless you get a major gift or inheritance. Even the large tract homes are too expensive IMHO.[/quote]

Isn’t that what supply and demand and market mechanisms are all about?

What’s so special about a senior engineer or scientist that that person deserves anything at all?[/quote]

What is so special about anybody who had earned a graduate degree, put in 10-15 years of good hard work, that’s what. If you don’t think somebody smart and hard working with a lot of experience would deserve anything…In the past, it was certainly good enough. I believe then the market was relatively free.

How does the supply and demand and market mechanisms applies nowadays in the housing market, huh? I’d like to know that. That is why a person like that cannot afford to raise his family the way he himself was raised…

Edit – I was talking especially about San Diego. In other parts of the country, it can still work.

[Scarlett]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Scarlett]
Well said. I totally agree with you. I am afraid those times when an senior engineer or scientist could support a family with kids and a nice home in a nice neighborhood are gone forever. Even with public schools.
Unless you get a major gift or inheritance. Even the large tract homes are too expensive IMHO.[/quote]

Isn’t that what supply and demand and market mechanisms are all about?

What’s so special about a senior engineer or scientist that that person deserves anything at all?[/quote]

What is so special about anybody who had earned a graduate degree, put in 10-15 years of good hard work, that’s what. If you don’t think somebody smart and hard working with a lot of experience would deserve anything…In the past, it was certainly good enough. I believe then the market was relatively free.

How does the supply and demand and market mechanisms applies nowadays in the housing market, huh? I’d like to know that. That is why a person like that cannot afford to raise his family the way he himself was raised…

Edit – I was talking especially about San Diego. In other parts of the country, it can still work.

[Scarlett]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Scarlett]
Well said. I totally agree with you. I am afraid those times when an senior engineer or scientist could support a family with kids and a nice home in a nice neighborhood are gone forever. Even with public schools.
Unless you get a major gift or inheritance. Even the large tract homes are too expensive IMHO.[/quote]

Isn’t that what supply and demand and market mechanisms are all about?

What’s so special about a senior engineer or scientist that that person deserves anything at all?[/quote]

What is so special about anybody who had earned a graduate degree, put in 10-15 years of good hard work, that’s what. If you don’t think somebody smart and hard working with a lot of experience would deserve anything…In the past, it was certainly good enough. I believe then the market was relatively free.

How does the supply and demand and market mechanisms applies nowadays in the housing market, huh? I’d like to know that. That is why a person like that cannot afford to raise his family the way he himself was raised…

Edit – I was talking especially about San Diego. In other parts of the country, it can still work.

[Scarlett]

[quote=briansd1][quote=Scarlett]
Well said. I totally agree with you. I am afraid those times when an senior engineer or scientist could support a family with kids and a nice home in a nice neighborhood are gone forever. Even with public schools.
Unless you get a major gift or inheritance. Even the large tract homes are too expensive IMHO.[/quote]

Isn’t that what supply and demand and market mechanisms are all about?

What’s so special about a senior engineer or scientist that that person deserves anything at all?[/quote]

What is so special about anybody who had earned a graduate degree, put in 10-15 years of good hard work, that’s what. If you don’t think somebody smart and hard working with a lot of experience would deserve anything…In the past, it was certainly good enough. I believe then the market was relatively free.

How does the supply and demand and market mechanisms applies nowadays in the housing market, huh? I’d like to know that. That is why a person like that cannot afford to raise his family the way he himself was raised…

Edit – I was talking especially about San Diego. In other parts of the country, it can still work.

[Coronita]

jstoesz,

Good luck to ya. I think being that you have no family,etc entrenched down here, I think it’s positive that you can move around a bit…

I moved a bit around from L.A., tp N.Y to S.D. to Bay Area and back to S.D., only to wan to move back to the Bay Area eventually. I like to see the seasons change and be closer to the slopes during the winter.

Long, long term, Vancouver would be nice too 🙂

[Coronita]

jstoesz,

Good luck to ya. I think being that you have no family,etc entrenched down here, I think it’s positive that you can move around a bit…

I moved a bit around from L.A., tp N.Y to S.D. to Bay Area and back to S.D., only to wan to move back to the Bay Area eventually. I like to see the seasons change and be closer to the slopes during the winter.

Long, long term, Vancouver would be nice too 🙂

[Coronita]

jstoesz,

Good luck to ya. I think being that you have no family,etc entrenched down here, I think it’s positive that you can move around a bit…

I moved a bit around from L.A., tp N.Y to S.D. to Bay Area and back to S.D., only to wan to move back to the Bay Area eventually. I like to see the seasons change and be closer to the slopes during the winter.

Long, long term, Vancouver would be nice too 🙂

[Coronita]

jstoesz,

Good luck to ya. I think being that you have no family,etc entrenched down here, I think it’s positive that you can move around a bit…

I moved a bit around from L.A., tp N.Y to S.D. to Bay Area and back to S.D., only to wan to move back to the Bay Area eventually. I like to see the seasons change and be closer to the slopes during the winter.

Long, long term, Vancouver would be nice too 🙂

[Coronita]

jstoesz,

Good luck to ya. I think being that you have no family,etc entrenched down here, I think it’s positive that you can move around a bit…

I moved a bit around from L.A., tp N.Y to S.D. to Bay Area and back to S.D., only to wan to move back to the Bay Area eventually. I like to see the seasons change and be closer to the slopes during the winter.

Long, long term, Vancouver would be nice too 🙂

[jstoesz]

Oh, and all of you who said we will be back. You are all probably right (4 in 5 we will be back). Because at the end of the day it is about family. And when women have babies, they want their moms around. Mother in Laws, no matter how awesome they are, just don’t cut it.

Brian1 there is nothing special about it. It is just that in most parts of the country it is plenty to afford me the family life I want. But it is not enough here. Is it that everyone is a scientist or engineer or is it that people here are stupid and willing to spend themselves into oblivion? I think the answer is yes, and yes…

[jstoesz]

Oh, and all of you who said we will be back. You are all probably right (4 in 5 we will be back). Because at the end of the day it is about family. And when women have babies, they want their moms around. Mother in Laws, no matter how awesome they are, just don’t cut it.

Brian1 there is nothing special about it. It is just that in most parts of the country it is plenty to afford me the family life I want. But it is not enough here. Is it that everyone is a scientist or engineer or is it that people here are stupid and willing to spend themselves into oblivion? I think the answer is yes, and yes…

[jstoesz]

Oh, and all of you who said we will be back. You are all probably right (4 in 5 we will be back). Because at the end of the day it is about family. And when women have babies, they want their moms around. Mother in Laws, no matter how awesome they are, just don’t cut it.

Brian1 there is nothing special about it. It is just that in most parts of the country it is plenty to afford me the family life I want. But it is not enough here. Is it that everyone is a scientist or engineer or is it that people here are stupid and willing to spend themselves into oblivion? I think the answer is yes, and yes…

[jstoesz]

Oh, and all of you who said we will be back. You are all probably right (4 in 5 we will be back). Because at the end of the day it is about family. And when women have babies, they want their moms around. Mother in Laws, no matter how awesome they are, just don’t cut it.

Brian1 there is nothing special about it. It is just that in most parts of the country it is plenty to afford me the family life I want. But it is not enough here. Is it that everyone is a scientist or engineer or is it that people here are stupid and willing to spend themselves into oblivion? I think the answer is yes, and yes…

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