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svelteParticipant[quote=EconProf]A bit of history about San Diego from this geeser. When we first moved here so I could teach at SDSU, 45 years ago, CA was the land of opportunity–the Golden State. Pete Wilson was the San Diego mayor, later CA senator. CA was Reagan country and the government was efficient, taxes were reasonable, and politics were competitive. A 3 Br, 2 Ba house in the suburb of El Cajon averaged $45,000 in price, the same as the national average. [/quote]
If you moved here 45 years ago, that would have been 1976.
My father was an ultra-Republican who could not stand Democrats. In 1970, he moved us from the Midwest to northern California, in the central valley. He bought a 3/2 1500 SF house there for $21K. He became angrier and angrier at California politics and what he perceived as a poor school system, and kept talking about moving us back to the midwest (I was a teen in the 1970s).
In 1975, he did move my family back to the Midwest – to Oklahoma where he grew up. He sold the house in Northern California for about $25-26K I can’t remember that number exactly. OK is an ultra-Republican state and was ultra-Republican in the 1970s also.
Having attended both CA and OK schools, I can tell you I didn’t see much of a difference. Pretty similar to me.
By 1978, my Dad had had enough of Oklahoma. It wasn’t as good as he remembered and after just three years he moved the family back to the central valley in northern California, about 10 miles from where we had lived before. He lived out the rest of his life in that area and while he still grumbled about CA politics, he never even considered leaving CA again.
I just now checked: that house he bought in 1970 for $21K? Zillow says it is worth about $295K right now.
I guess what I’m saying is that making sweeping generalizations about California really doesn’t work. The central valley was Republican in the 1970s and is still Republican today. Housing prices haven’t went up nearly as much as the coast. In fact, they are right in line with the Midwest.
What you think of as ultra Liberal CA is really just the coast. When you go inland, CA is very Republican and not out of line with housing costs in the Midwest.
So you really didn’t have to move to Utah to get the lower costs and Republican neighbors. You could have stayed in CA. You chose the location mainly due to its proximity to your family – which is a very valid reason.
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Was she born in 1930? It was the most spectacularist of years. That was the year the greatest person ever was delivered to bring a massive dose of humanity to the world. [/quote]
You must be talking about The Big Bopper. :0)
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=scaredyclassic]it is very hard to predict the future though. at the time, i remember thinking in 07 that well, maybe the bulls are right, maybe it will all double again. i suppose it could have with the right conditions. but it didn’t. its easy to look back and laugh butit’s difficult to knwo exactly when a bubble is too inflaeted, when it will burst and when th e madness will end (if in fact it does in your lifetime.). still, it’s pretty funny.[/quote]
In the future, youngscaredy, you will stop drinking and become a buddhist. Life will be ok.[/quote]
Old man, look at my life. I’m a lot like you were.
svelteParticipantAnother thing to consider: if the house is sold within 6 months of the death, then the value of the house is part of the estate and therefore proceeds transfer tax exempt for estates up to $11M.
If the house is sold after 6 months, then when the house is sold, there could be tax on the difference between the value at the time of death and the sale value.
Or something like that, I forget exactly.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Avocadogreen mattresses[/quote]I don’t think those will work for me. I need a very firm mattress and the firmest listed on the Avocado site is Medium-Firm (7.5 on a scale 1-10).
As an example of how firm I need, before the Elite our favorite mattress brand was called the Sealy Granite.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]feng shui for toilets.
mattress issues as related to dream life.
tax considerations.
life is tricky.[/quote]
Your mattress talk started me thinking about a new mattress. Ours is about a decade old now.
So I started poking around online. Holy cow has the mattress world changed in the last decade. I guess I should have noticed when we bought the grandkids memory foam mattresses. At the time I thought that was a sliver of the market.
But no – memory foam has taken over! They don’t even make our Beautyrest Elite any more. Now Beautyrests have names like “Black”, “Harmony Lux Diamond”, “Harmony Lux Carbon”. All of them at least partially memory foam.
I won’t be able to walk in, plunk down my money and buy the usual. I’m actually going to have to do research.
svelteParticipantAlso, I’m a firm believer you should live with the house a year before deciding on a landscape design. The reason is that after you’ve went through all four seasons, you’ll better understand the microclimates around your house. Which areas are most comfortable? Which areas are too hot? Too windy? Too chilly?
It will also give you time to figure out the living patterns around your house – where should the garbage cans go, where should the storage unit go, what part of the yard do you want to highlight due to sight lines from inside your house?
A lot of things to consider.
svelteParticipantWe completely removed our back yard and replaced everything – trees, plants, concrete, sprinklers, everything – about a year and a half ago. After demolition, there was nothing in the back yard – just like a new house.
I did extensive research of north county landscape design and construction firms and narrowed it down to three. I picked one of the three but I’m convinced any of the three will do you a fine job.
In alphabetical order:
https://www.riverslandscape.com/
https://stonebrooklandscapes.com/
https://westernoutdoordesigns.com/
All three will do design and construction. I’m very opinionated when it comes to design so I did the design then handed it over to them to help me improve it. Very, very satisfied with the results.
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]
People cashing out. I have two neighbors about to. Nothing to buy in red hot CA so they limp out of state to find something else[/quote]Sales are strong throughout California that is true.
But as long as you get away from the major cities, prices are reasonable. Monday, my son put in an offer that was accepted for a 1500+ SF home in the Sierra Nevada foothills. He is getting it for $400K. House was on market 7 days and he was one of four offers.
And here is what I don’t understand…I keep hearing people say that CA is losing population, yet housing prices are still heading up. Somehow that does not equate.
svelteParticipantI watch Rick Beato videos sometimes.
I thought this one was pretty good. He’s at the reflective stage of life, pretty much where I am sometimes.
I’m a little confused on why he says his two life-changing events were 40 years apart – I would say they were 19 years apart: 1980 and 1999.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]When i read the book of mormon, it seems, well, absolutely goofy, like a spoofy joke someone wrote for fun. But i have a very very smart and very kind acquaintance who always has a copy, he reads it literally every day. Gets a lot out of it, he says. all religious texts are kind of goofy from the outside. Garden of eden? Really? Silly…
Except the diamond sutra. That ones just perplexing. Perhaps enlightening.
Like any shared fake reality– money, the afterlife, americanism– it only works if everyone, or at least the ones you know, are into it.[/quote]
God is just a Santa Clause for adults. The E is intentional.
svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]Don’t blame Fry’s on the Internet or even COVID hysteria about in-person shopping — the closest East Coast equivalent to Fry’s is Microcenter, and they have had lines out the door, COVID or no COVID.[/quote]
Yes I blame it on the internet. Otherwise, if it was just a case of poor management, another brick and mortar electronics store would have popped up to take its place. There is no Microcenter anywhere near me and I doubt there ever will be.
svelteParticipant[quote=carlsbadworker]Fry’s closed down overnight:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-closure/index.html%5B/quote%5DYeah that one hurts. It was my grown-up toy store.
I guess if the kid toy store Toys R Us folded, Fry’s was only a matter of time.
I love the internet but I also hate the internet. So conflicted.
svelteParticipant[quote=EconProf]Bingo. sdrealtor also mentioned it.
Population about 150,000 in the metropolitan area and growing like crazy. Zion National Park about 30 minutes away and Vegas two hours south. Weather a bit better than Phoenix and Vegas because of higher elevation–5-10 degrees cooler in summer and winter.
Because of its growth, everything is new there–stores, housing developments, national chains, etc. Everything within about a ten minute drive, on great roads, and I-15, which runs through it.
The people are young, have conservative politics, good schools (they largely did not close down from COVID, and in gyms few wear masks), no visible homeless people, and economy booming. Yes, I’ll invest in RE there.
The people are about two-thirds Mormon, which we are just fine with. Makes for large, healthy-looking families, hard workers, clean government, old-fashioned family values, low taxes.[/quote]Congrats Econ. I’m happy for you!
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