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HHH. I know you are not referring to me as a google-gazillionaire. I work for a living. And that price range, as you can imagine, is the very very low end of high end or the high end of ordinary up here. Indeed, your comment is what makes it so different up here. Don’t mistake different for better.

That price range will buy me my version of a dream house in SD, but not here. The size you mention is what I am finding in SD, not here, unless you are talking South San Jose. The few 5k+ sf homes I have found in Los Altos/Los Altos hills are in two categories, (i) in my price range, but on small lots with the extra square footage in the form of a finished basement, or (ii) way out of my league.

Google folks are not the only folks that drive prices here and force us to lower our expectations so much, though the high level Google folks have had a lot to do with price stabalization and increases in Atherton, Woodside, Portala Valley, and even Los Altos Hills.

Either way, I would like to point out that I did not disagree with your post. You were spot on. I was just saying, it could be worse. Here you get 1/2 the house than you do in SD with 1/10th the weather. Nuff said.

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HappyHouseHunting. If you really want to lower your expectations, try the Bay Area. $1 million will get you 1,300sf 50 yr old ranch home in Mountain View, which is pretty nice, but not as nice as CV.

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HappyHouseHunting. If you really want to lower your expectations, try the Bay Area. $1 million will get you 1,300sf 50 yr old ranch home in Mountain View, which is pretty nice, but not as nice as CV.

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HappyHouseHunting. If you really want to lower your expectations, try the Bay Area. $1 million will get you 1,300sf 50 yr old ranch home in Mountain View, which is pretty nice, but not as nice as CV.

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HappyHouseHunting. If you really want to lower your expectations, try the Bay Area. $1 million will get you 1,300sf 50 yr old ranch home in Mountain View, which is pretty nice, but not as nice as CV.

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HappyHouseHunting. If you really want to lower your expectations, try the Bay Area. $1 million will get you 1,300sf 50 yr old ranch home in Mountain View, which is pretty nice, but not as nice as CV.

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Ok, Allan, now I am impressed. Do you recall Arapnet spin off? I used to work at LBL. Lets not forget Bell Labs either or SRI for innovators. PARC was great, they gave us icon based computing, grid architecture, and Smalltalk.

And thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act, the government still funds early innovation that gets commercialized in a way no other country can match. Remembers, Japan copies, improves, refines, and stands on the shoulder of innovators to innovate improvements and they do it better than anybody, but original innovations start here.

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Ok, Allan, now I am impressed. Do you recall Arapnet spin off? I used to work at LBL. Lets not forget Bell Labs either or SRI for innovators. PARC was great, they gave us icon based computing, grid architecture, and Smalltalk.

And thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act, the government still funds early innovation that gets commercialized in a way no other country can match. Remembers, Japan copies, improves, refines, and stands on the shoulder of innovators to innovate improvements and they do it better than anybody, but original innovations start here.

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Ok, Allan, now I am impressed. Do you recall Arapnet spin off? I used to work at LBL. Lets not forget Bell Labs either or SRI for innovators. PARC was great, they gave us icon based computing, grid architecture, and Smalltalk.

And thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act, the government still funds early innovation that gets commercialized in a way no other country can match. Remembers, Japan copies, improves, refines, and stands on the shoulder of innovators to innovate improvements and they do it better than anybody, but original innovations start here.

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Ok, Allan, now I am impressed. Do you recall Arapnet spin off? I used to work at LBL. Lets not forget Bell Labs either or SRI for innovators. PARC was great, they gave us icon based computing, grid architecture, and Smalltalk.

And thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act, the government still funds early innovation that gets commercialized in a way no other country can match. Remembers, Japan copies, improves, refines, and stands on the shoulder of innovators to innovate improvements and they do it better than anybody, but original innovations start here.

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Ok, Allan, now I am impressed. Do you recall Arapnet spin off? I used to work at LBL. Lets not forget Bell Labs either or SRI for innovators. PARC was great, they gave us icon based computing, grid architecture, and Smalltalk.

And thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act, the government still funds early innovation that gets commercialized in a way no other country can match. Remembers, Japan copies, improves, refines, and stands on the shoulder of innovators to innovate improvements and they do it better than anybody, but original innovations start here.

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Allan. You know I don’t remember Linda’s. I came to the Bay Area in the early 80’s from SD after my stint in the Navy. My dad lived here long before I did (divorced). I used to work next to Apple on De Anza Blvd years back. I also worked next to PARC for about 8 years. In that place, only magic happened. Some really smart people worked there.

I often wished my dad kept that piece of land. He lives with me now and his proceeds are long gone.

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Allan. You know I don’t remember Linda’s. I came to the Bay Area in the early 80’s from SD after my stint in the Navy. My dad lived here long before I did (divorced). I used to work next to Apple on De Anza Blvd years back. I also worked next to PARC for about 8 years. In that place, only magic happened. Some really smart people worked there.

I often wished my dad kept that piece of land. He lives with me now and his proceeds are long gone.

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Allan. You know I don’t remember Linda’s. I came to the Bay Area in the early 80’s from SD after my stint in the Navy. My dad lived here long before I did (divorced). I used to work next to Apple on De Anza Blvd years back. I also worked next to PARC for about 8 years. In that place, only magic happened. Some really smart people worked there.

I often wished my dad kept that piece of land. He lives with me now and his proceeds are long gone.

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Allan. You know I don’t remember Linda’s. I came to the Bay Area in the early 80’s from SD after my stint in the Navy. My dad lived here long before I did (divorced). I used to work next to Apple on De Anza Blvd years back. I also worked next to PARC for about 8 years. In that place, only magic happened. Some really smart people worked there.

I often wished my dad kept that piece of land. He lives with me now and his proceeds are long gone.

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