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I'm so friggin' jealous
My MOH and her husband just had their offer accepted for a house back in Michigan. 2,300 SF, 3 bedrooms, yard, great area...$170,000.
I'm VERY happy for them, but man...it will probably be 3 years or so until we can buy a house, and at nowhere close to that price! Ugh. Sometimes the HCOL really gets me down.
Re: I'm so friggin' jealous
It's truly ridiculous what kind of properties you can get in other states.
I'm jealous too... there's no way we'll get anything close to that for that price in CA.
ack.
That makes me a little sick considering what we just paid in a down market.
sometimes I wish we still rented. I had way cuter clothes back then.
eta - in no way am I sad about owning a house, but there are days when being a renter is so appealing. Like a few weeks ago. When we discovered tree roots were clogging our main sewage line, and raw sewage was spilling into our side yard. That was great.
Once we recover (hopefully soon) from short selling our house in Idaho we are looking to buy here. But prices make me sick. I guess the good thing is that we can still buy here for less than we did in Idaho, believe it or not. But it's still way more than I want to spend. Ugh.
$170K... must be nice...
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
Oh yes, there are so many things I love about living out here! I would never want to move back. Clearly, I just need to put more things like "70 degrees today!" in my status updates.
just remember, LCOL areas usually mean lower salary. like, I made more right out of college (and that pay was borderline poverty level) than some of salaries I'm seeing here.
and, the property taxes are very low in CA so your friends might end up paying the same amount for 170K as say a 500K house in CA. plus, you can't beat the weather in socal no matter how you spin it - I've heard people easily spend $300-400 on electric bills in the summer (which is like 8 months long) because the a/c is cranking 24/7.
just something to think about.
Property taxes are low in CA?! Really?
Then Idaho must have been dirt cheap. I think they were half of California's!
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
it's almost 4% here! I thought it was less than 2% in CA? maybe I'm just smoking something...
Ohshit! It was a half a percent in 'daho!
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
My best friend in TX owns a 3bd 2ba house on a half acre of land and her mortgage payment is less than what I pay for rent.
But she lives in TX. I console myself with the knowledge that even though I'm probably a lifelong renter, I will never have to live in TX.
It's weird because this doesn't make me jealous and really doesn't bother me too much.
I guess because I grew up here and am so used to this market that I've just resigned myself to the fact that I will be renting until something crazy happens to let me buy. But I don't even crave a house all that much. I'm totally fine renting, and actually like a lot of the freedoms that renting gives me.
I guess I just think that where I live is so much better than anywhere else, and that buying a house isn't the be-all end-all of adulthood / life, so it doesn't really bug me. I think it would be cool to have a house, but I also think it's pretty cool to live by the beach and travel when I want to, and one doesn't really outweigh another for me.