I've been saying that since the 1980s (Reply #51)

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Sat Feb 19, 2022, 02:53 PM

Retrograde (9,099 posts)

51. I've been saying that since the 1980s

about the bubble having to burst - but apart from some temporary dips here and there Bay Area house prices have been going up steadily. My advice to people is to skrimp, save, and do anything legal to get on the escalator, even if it means settling for less than you might like.

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60 replies	Author	Time	Post
"the big sort" Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own [View all]	Demovictory9	Feb 2022	OP
It makes perfect sense really	jimfields33	Feb 2022	#1
This section is beyond maddening:	Celerity	Feb 2022	#2
Yep.	Desert_Leslie	Feb 2022	#15
"Every wo(man) for themselves."	shrike3	Feb 2022	#34
America is dividing into tomorrow and yesterday	sanatanadharma	Feb 2022	#3
Hit the nail on the head	Desert_Leslie	Feb 2022	#16
One group will be moving forward and other backwards . . .	Lovie777	Feb 2022	#23
That's an excellent description.	tanyev	Feb 2022	#35
Not just Musk. Ellison of Oracle also.	Diablo del sol	Feb 2022	#54
I live in an NC county that went 80.2% Biden	mnhtnbb	Feb 2022	#4
My wife and I are considering retiring to NC	Martin Eden	Feb 2022	#19
NC is more purple	mnhtnbb	Feb 2022	#21
Thanks for that info	Martin Eden	Feb 2022	#24
We are very close	Thtwudbeme	Feb 2022	#29
I lived in Charlotte until the mid-90's.	llmart	Feb 2022	#42
So, you don't want to move to a "Red" Country but you want a "Red" policy of lower taxes?	brooklynite	Feb 2022	#49
We've paid high taxes all our working lives and were OK with it.	Martin Eden	Feb 2022	#53
Blue States?	RetiredRNIowa	Feb 2022	#5
California if you have 1.2M for a medium sized home	Demovictory9	Feb 2022	#6
Depends on where, though...	Silver Gaia	Feb 2022	#25
I've been saying that since the 1980s	Retrograde	Feb 2022	#51
We live in the Sacramento area. We got an excellent deal on our home	Silver Gaia	Feb 2022	#56
Come to NC and help turn us blue!	mnhtnbb	Feb 2022	#7
highly educated population	Demovictory9	Feb 2022	#8
Yes. UNC Chapel Hill and Duke 20 minutes from me	mnhtnbb	Feb 2022	#9
I had thought of NC years ago, but retired now	Sherman A1	Feb 2022	#11
I lived in St Joseph for 6 years	mnhtnbb	Feb 2022	#13
You need to get out a little! :) Come on up to	Thtwudbeme	Feb 2022	#30
Southern Maine	mainer	Feb 2022	#14
I move fairly often, every 5 to 10 years.	multigraincracker	Feb 2022	#10
RE Texas...Liberals are moving there as well...it's purple now, thus the draconian Election laws	ashredux	Feb 2022	#12
It's become a running joke here in TN that so many folks from California are moving here	Docreed2003	Feb 2022	#17
We tend to export the RWers	Diablo del sol	Feb 2022	#55
I wish more of us would move to red area's.	Emile	Feb 2022	#18
A once-friend our son grew up with before their ways parted	Hortensis	Feb 2022	#20
its almost as if Rightwingers expect red areas to be utopias. and some of the "sorting" in 80s/90s	Demovictory9	Feb 2022	#22
:) The last time "I drove into Texas" and stopped at a giant new gas station	Hortensis	Feb 2022	#36
Thats a sad story.	Silver Gaia	Feb 2022	#27
:) Florida's not my favorite state, but I know too many who	Hortensis	Feb 2022	#44
I lived in both Coco Beach and Gainesville in the mid-1970s,	Silver Gaia	Feb 2022	#58
Same in many places before population explosion and development	Hortensis	Feb 2022	#59
Gosh, it's almost like he took his confusion and discomfort with him . . .	hatrack	Feb 2022	#28
"Wherever you go, there you are." nt	Nay	Feb 2022	#31
Exactly. And there he is.	Hortensis	Feb 2022	#47
Three families have moved from my small little SoCal enclave.	Diablo del sol	Feb 2022	#57
Repubs: "we don't have to wear masks!" Dems: "they put broken glass in our mailbox"	muriel_volestrangler	Feb 2022	#26
God, that sucks!	ananda	Feb 2022	#32
I live in a blue area in Indiana	shrike3	Feb 2022	#33
You live in Indy or in Bloomington.	maxsolomon	Feb 2022	#39
Nope, I live close to Chicago.	shrike3	Feb 2022	#40
Ah. Hadn't considered that area, but it makes sense.	maxsolomon	Feb 2022	#43
Yes, we used to be ignored and it was rather nice.	shrike3	Feb 2022	#45
I don't know if I'd call Fort Wayne blue.	shrike3	Feb 2022	#41
Oh, right. Liberal Catholicism.	maxsolomon	Feb 2022	#46
Social Justice Catholicism is not dead here.	shrike3	Feb 2022	#48
I never get that split	maxsolomon	Feb 2022	#52
In the American church, the conservatives pushed back	shrike3	Feb 2022	#60
You could not pay me to move to a red state or even a purple one.	Raftergirl	Feb 2022	#37
This has been happening for decades.	maxsolomon	Feb 2022	#38
These trumpers ought to be careful where they move in Texas.	Liberal In Texas	Feb 2022	#50

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