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ParticipantI know the housing market feels way too high, but there are reasons why doctors take a lower salary to live in San Diego.
Trying playing Ultimate Frisbee on a summer evening in Texas (hot hot hot, sticky humid, and you reek of OFF). I can’t even tell you how nice it is to play in the Ultimate League in San Diego on the UCSD campus. There also aren’t any mosquitos at the hockey rink in 4S Ranch. That alone has spoiled me on coastal California.
ParticipantI know the housing market feels way too high, but there are reasons why doctors take a lower salary to live in San Diego.
Trying playing Ultimate Frisbee on a summer evening in Texas (hot hot hot, sticky humid, and you reek of OFF). I can’t even tell you how nice it is to play in the Ultimate League in San Diego on the UCSD campus. There also aren’t any mosquitos at the hockey rink in 4S Ranch. That alone has spoiled me on coastal California.
ParticipantI also went to UT as an undergrad and went back to live in Austin after grad school. It’s a great little city, but for someone really into the outdoors, I have to say that I’ll pay the premium to live in San Diego.
It’s all a matter of priorities and I happen to find the proximity of skiing, rock-climbing, open water swimming gives San Diego a healthy edge (for me). Also, I’m in biotech and that’s an absolutely dead industry in Central Texas.
Don’t even talk about Houston or Dallas. I grew up in the first and worked in the latter. All the attitude and traffic of the OC without the ocean or hills. No thanks.
Also, there was some study done on how folks are starting to move to locales where the political climate is more comfortable. I’m not going to comment on who started the divisions in this country, but that’s a major factor why I’m in California doing biotech instead of North Carolina.
Anyway, for those who moved away for space and more bang for the buck, congrats.
ParticipantI also went to UT as an undergrad and went back to live in Austin after grad school. It’s a great little city, but for someone really into the outdoors, I have to say that I’ll pay the premium to live in San Diego.
It’s all a matter of priorities and I happen to find the proximity of skiing, rock-climbing, open water swimming gives San Diego a healthy edge (for me). Also, I’m in biotech and that’s an absolutely dead industry in Central Texas.
Don’t even talk about Houston or Dallas. I grew up in the first and worked in the latter. All the attitude and traffic of the OC without the ocean or hills. No thanks.
Also, there was some study done on how folks are starting to move to locales where the political climate is more comfortable. I’m not going to comment on who started the divisions in this country, but that’s a major factor why I’m in California doing biotech instead of North Carolina.
Anyway, for those who moved away for space and more bang for the buck, congrats.
ParticipantI also went to UT as an undergrad and went back to live in Austin after grad school. It’s a great little city, but for someone really into the outdoors, I have to say that I’ll pay the premium to live in San Diego.
It’s all a matter of priorities and I happen to find the proximity of skiing, rock-climbing, open water swimming gives San Diego a healthy edge (for me). Also, I’m in biotech and that’s an absolutely dead industry in Central Texas.
Don’t even talk about Houston or Dallas. I grew up in the first and worked in the latter. All the attitude and traffic of the OC without the ocean or hills. No thanks.
Also, there was some study done on how folks are starting to move to locales where the political climate is more comfortable. I’m not going to comment on who started the divisions in this country, but that’s a major factor why I’m in California doing biotech instead of North Carolina.
Anyway, for those who moved away for space and more bang for the buck, congrats.
ParticipantI admit I’m dumb. I’m a lawyer that worked did transactions in the dot.com world. I jumped out of tech stocks in 99 because I saw it was unsustainable. Well I missed the crash by two years. I did the same thing in real estate in 2002 and missed it by 4 years.
I think the problem is that by working closely with people in the industry I become “frightened” by the overexuberance and I bail out early. Is that dumb? I don’t know and I may have lost quite a bit of capital gains, but frankly I’m pretty happy with a cheap old whitewater kayak, a nice mountain bike and a very good road bike. I drive a brand new car under 22k and my old kayak carrying truck is over 12 years old. SoCal is full of folks that keep on asking me why I haven’t bought a BMWer. Easy, I’m not a materialistic fool and that’s what a see in a lot of Californians.
Am I happy that the market is resetting? If it cuts down on the number of Hummers I see out here, I’m pretty satisfied.
ParticipantI admit I’m dumb. I’m a lawyer that worked did transactions in the dot.com world. I jumped out of tech stocks in 99 because I saw it was unsustainable. Well I missed the crash by two years. I did the same thing in real estate in 2002 and missed it by 4 years.
I think the problem is that by working closely with people in the industry I become “frightened” by the overexuberance and I bail out early. Is that dumb? I don’t know and I may have lost quite a bit of capital gains, but frankly I’m pretty happy with a cheap old whitewater kayak, a nice mountain bike and a very good road bike. I drive a brand new car under 22k and my old kayak carrying truck is over 12 years old. SoCal is full of folks that keep on asking me why I haven’t bought a BMWer. Easy, I’m not a materialistic fool and that’s what a see in a lot of Californians.
Am I happy that the market is resetting? If it cuts down on the number of Hummers I see out here, I’m pretty satisfied.
ParticipantI admit I’m dumb. I’m a lawyer that worked did transactions in the dot.com world. I jumped out of tech stocks in 99 because I saw it was unsustainable. Well I missed the crash by two years. I did the same thing in real estate in 2002 and missed it by 4 years.
I think the problem is that by working closely with people in the industry I become “frightened” by the overexuberance and I bail out early. Is that dumb? I don’t know and I may have lost quite a bit of capital gains, but frankly I’m pretty happy with a cheap old whitewater kayak, a nice mountain bike and a very good road bike. I drive a brand new car under 22k and my old kayak carrying truck is over 12 years old. SoCal is full of folks that keep on asking me why I haven’t bought a BMWer. Easy, I’m not a materialistic fool and that’s what a see in a lot of Californians.
Am I happy that the market is resetting? If it cuts down on the number of Hummers I see out here, I’m pretty satisfied.
ParticipantIts an odd post, why are you asking people to bash you? I think you know that you’ve generated a strawman argument when you talk about a “normal” market in California.
My realistic scenario is that I’ve owned two homes before (in Texas and in DC) and the market out here is absolutely crazy in comparison. I rent a place for 2400 (a 3/2). A 2/2 in the same complex just sold for over 600,000 and the HOAs have gone up to $500/month. Please do the math there and tell me why I would buy in the current market.
ParticipantIts an odd post, why are you asking people to bash you? I think you know that you’ve generated a strawman argument when you talk about a “normal” market in California.
My realistic scenario is that I’ve owned two homes before (in Texas and in DC) and the market out here is absolutely crazy in comparison. I rent a place for 2400 (a 3/2). A 2/2 in the same complex just sold for over 600,000 and the HOAs have gone up to $500/month. Please do the math there and tell me why I would buy in the current market.
ParticipantIts an odd post, why are you asking people to bash you? I think you know that you’ve generated a strawman argument when you talk about a “normal” market in California.
My realistic scenario is that I’ve owned two homes before (in Texas and in DC) and the market out here is absolutely crazy in comparison. I rent a place for 2400 (a 3/2). A 2/2 in the same complex just sold for over 600,000 and the HOAs have gone up to $500/month. Please do the math there and tell me why I would buy in the current market.
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