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February 19, 2013 at 8:58 AM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759729
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Participant[quote=SD Realtor]The only problem is that the entire table needs to play correctly. You also need a good 3rd baseman.[/quote]
Everybody else can be an idiot. Only the tailgunner matters. The lay of the cards at that point makes the decision.
Participant[quote=UCGal][quote=no_such_reality]Number eight should be:
8. You’re overweight and you have bad habits. Nothing destroys and prevents wealth like excess weight. Smoking, drinking, and gambling run a solid second. The correlation between weight and bad eating habits that are ironically, quite expensive is fairly strong. Excess weight also damages your earning power, promotions and eventually, leads to catastrophic illnesses that will cripple your earnings, destroy your life and drain your wealth.[/quote]
This fatty disagrees. 🙂
I’m on track for early retirement and a paid off house. And I’m fat.[/quote]Well, this fatty is doing fine too, but you’re still wrong. Give it time, the weight (not the 5-10 lb kind), will get you. I’m talking the 40% over 40 that are obese and gaining. I’m 100% confident that if I don’t win my battle of the bulge, it will kill me and destroy my finances.
February 19, 2013 at 8:31 AM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759721Participant[quote=spdrun]
Here’s the fine living in San Fran. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-supervisors-back-micro-apartments-4055493.php
I’d actually love something like that in SD, if it’s within a mile or two of the beach, in a good area, and costs under say $80k to buy or $700 to rent. This being said, the layout is crappy-yappy. Same goes for the proposed units in NYC. My building has a few units of similar size (built in 1910-1911!) and the layouts are much better. The entrance is in the middle on the long wall, so you don’t waste 10%+ of the floor space with the “grand entry corridor.”[/quote]
If cheap enough, a single person’s or dink’s vacation property, sure. Long term living, a stretch. Wife and kids, haha.
Layout is primo. I’ve been in 700sf Jr. 1 Bedroom apartments that felt spacious and 3000 SF homes that felt like cubeville and didn’t have a room other than the kitchen that was bigger than that 1BD.
ParticipantNumber eight should be:
8. You’re overweight and you have bad habits. Nothing destroys and prevents wealth like excess weight. Smoking, drinking, and gambling run a solid second. The correlation between weight and bad eating habits that are ironically, quite expensive is fairly strong. Excess weight also damages your earning power, promotions and eventually, leads to catastrophic illnesses that will cripple your earnings, destroy your life and drain your wealth.
February 19, 2013 at 5:01 AM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759711Participant[quote=bearishgurl]Oh, and btw, nsr, SF has SEVERAL community and social services available for its residents for free or at low cost that are virtually unheard of in other CA populous counties (incl SD Co).
How do you think they’re able to do this when they’re not “growing?”[/quote]
They are growing. IT’s the hub of the metro area up there. That’s why the BART goes out past Richmond. SF doesn’t exist in a bubble, nor does San Mateo, the people there make a large amount of money off the people living in those cursed CFDs.
NYC is also rebuilding continuously, and growing and it’s burbs are continuous pushing out. It’s greater metro area grew 15% in the last decade. NYC itself, grew 15% from 1990-2000. Then it slowed when it hit 8 mil.
IT doesn’t need to be sprawl. But it does need growth and revitalization. A lot of that revitalization comes from population growth and reinventing.
Here’s the fine living in San Fran. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-supervisors-back-micro-apartments-4055493.php
But to say, if we don’t build, the people won’t come. That’s a death sentence.
February 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759693Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=no_such_reality]BG, any place that isn’t building, is dying.[/quote]
Except for “Foster City,” dredged out from SF Bay over 40 years ago and had CFD’s approved within it in 1983, there hasn’t been any SFR subdivision development in San Mateo County in that time span and beyond.
nsr, do you think SM County is “dying?”
LOL, its residents are actually one of the most prosperous, if not (collectively) THE most prosperous in the nation.
Go figure … :=0[/quote]
A single county is largely irrelevant. It’s the collective that drives it.
As for SF, they are chronically rebuilding.
February 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759679ParticipantBG, any place that isn’t building, is dying.
It’s either, build on new land, or tear down and rebuild bigger on old land.
Those CFDs you dislike were a major driver in CA’s economy. Without he CFDs, CA would look very different and maybe not the way you think. The population would still come maybe, the jobs would be there, maybe. Those restaurants and shopping most like, those trendy clubs and bars? Doubtful.
The CFDs were mismanaged and pork lined up all sides of the trough, but without development, CA would shrivel and die. I suppose you could move the valley of the dirt people into the downtown condos, but that’s a very different experience, and frankly, California isn’t ready for the NYC micro-apartments.
February 18, 2013 at 7:02 AM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759651ParticipantFigure 4 agrees with you. Does that count all people or just legal residents?
February 18, 2013 at 6:21 AM in reply to: what’s the disadvantage of living near a primary school? #759650ParticipantTraffic or noise may go all weekend long. For example, the primary school down the block had a lacrosse tournament this weekend. Saturday and Sunday, 3X normal school rush hour traffic, noise all day long from 8-4PM.
Soccer, LaCrosse, some other sport is typically having a big meet there once a month sometimes more.
If I had to rank the noise factor, frankly, one bonehead mid-lifing accountant in the greater neighborhood buying a harley makes more noise and disruption on the weekend.
With that traffic comes another minor annoyance, trash. Not a lot, but an above average amount of food container trash.
Third annoyance, if you have little children. The playground equipment is plainly visible, but may be beyond reach as all entrances may be locked.
February 18, 2013 at 5:39 AM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759648Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
nsr, re: RIV Co, it is a classic case of the “chicken and the egg syndrome.” All that influx of hundreds of thousands of people would never have moved in there were it not for the abundance of cheap tract housing. In 1990, the bases were still very much alive but it didn’t have too much more “redeeming qualities” except tourism in select spots (Palm Sprs, La Quinta) .[/quote]Well, I came in the 90s.
Nothing about CA housing was cheap comparatively, even at the bottom of the cycle in the 90s.
The CFDs didn’t cause the population boom. The California mystique did. It takes a few years for the reality versus mystique gap to become annoying.
Then those people flitter back when they realize the California they thought and the California that is, are two very different places. Meanwhile, Cali is importing poverty in droves.
February 17, 2013 at 6:06 AM in reply to: People aren’t leaving CA in droves… at least according to the United Van Lines survey #759612Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
This is all due to rampant CFD formation, approved by its short-sighted, greedy and incompetent leaders mostly in the last decade. RIV Co has turned from an agriculture and military-based county (self-sustaining) into a megalopolis bedroom community with few jobs which pay enough for rent/mortgage.
[/quote]No, BG,it is a 30%+ legal population growth and probably a 50% pop growth when counting illegal.
That’s since 1990.
ParticipantMy real name is Franklin. Now hand the C-note over.
ParticipantHave a nice day. 🙂
ParticipantDorner manhunt leads LAPD SWAT to Lowe’s store in Northridge
[quote]The manhunt for Christopher Dorner led LAPD SWAT officers to a Northridge Lowe’s home improvement store after people reported seeing someone who resembled the fugitive former police officer there.
LAPD swarmed the store off Nordhoff Street about 5 p.m. Customers were escorted out of the store as police looked for any signs of Dorner.
LAPD stressed that it was an unconfirmed sighting.
[Updated 7:27 p.m.: A law enforcement source said the call to the Lowe’s might have been related to a couple fighting outside the store].[/quote]
Yep, have an argument with your spouse in the parking lot, cause SWAT to swarm the store.
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