House prices in and around Eugene Oregon are..

[Stark]

Originally posted by: DT4K

Originally posted by: Stark
hey, i lived my formative years in OC in socal, and I can't afford to live their anymore. I just heard that the average price for a home in SD is 600k.

So blame GWB for not doing something about all the "undocumented" residents coming across the border and all the other people from every corner of the country and world infesting southern cal and driving housing prices through the roof.

As for me, I'm about ready to cash out and move somewhere else. I hear Colorado is nice and has great mountain biking. I'm going to go check it out next week.

WTF?
Could you explain to me how poor illegals are buying houses for 600k or causing house prices to go to 600k ??????

The reason SoCal is so expensive now is that people in the bay area started cashing out and moving south.

they're not buying 600k houses. 10 of them move into a 200k house in what once was a nice neighborhood and slowly but surely the area turns to turd. Those 10 have to commute 50 miles to their crappy jobs on the freeway, adding to smog and congestion. And everyone else gets to pay for their health care/kids schooling/etc.

If you look at new house designs, they've actually started incorporating "guest houses" into the mix to accomidate the muliple families living on the properties. It's nuts.

<rant> I'm not opposed to legal immigration, but in socal illegal immigration goes unchecked (and the republican "big business" lobby at the federal level is the biggest reason why; democrats in all the local offices pass every socialist bill they can to make it easier for illegals to stay, which the corrupt Mexican government fully endorses since their economy would collapse if not for all the money sent home by workers in the states). </rant>

(as a defense to this sort of thinking, consider for a second what would happen if the US decided to annex baja california and start selling off parcels of land. The natives in mexico would almost automatically be priced out of their own country as huge companies started turning baja to ensenda into the next Temecula/north county. I doubt they would appreciate the huge influx of americanos "ruining" their way of life)

It's about time to build a huge wall along the border and paint "apesadumbrada, América es llena" in big letters on it.

But that's just one factor.

The mad influx of people from all over the place to "middle class" areas has made buying houses all but impossible for people who grew up here. 90% of my friends from back in the day either left or have much smaller houses than their parents, usually in places nobody wanted to live when we were growing up (myself included).

Back to the main point, immigration/emmigration is a two edged sword. People looking for a new place to live a better future is basic to the story of America. Of course, the pepole already living in those "new" places have never appreciated the newbies much.

 

[Vic]

Contrary to popular opinion, it is not a housing shortage that is driving up home values. Rental property vacancies are at all-time highs. In some areas, like Seattle and SF for example, rents have actually been going down. Many people who have been buying investment properties have been getting their asses kicked when they can't find tenants and the house goes vacant and unrented for extended periods of time.