And the fastest growing city last year was...

[polarbear]

Boise, Id. "Tech dislocation" gets much of the credit, as tech companies move out of higher priced areas of California. Seattle, Wa was #2, Dallas, Tx #3.

Boise is America's Fastest-Growing Metropolitan Area

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanth.../#c5d73217febf

Overall, Texas and Florida are the big winners on that list.

[FasterTraffic]

Leaving California to go to Seattle seems like trying to break your alcohol dependency by substituting rum for whiskey.

[polarbear]

Originally Posted by FasterTraffic

Leaving California to go to Seattle seems like trying to break your alcohol dependency by substituting rum for whiskey.

True- but comparatively speaking, Seattle is dirt cheap compared to Silicon Valley. And the... ummm... political climate is more compatible with those used to Northern Ca. Boise will seem like another planet.

[FasterTraffic]

Originally Posted by polarbear

True- but comparatively speaking, Seattle is dirt cheap compared to Silicon Valley...

If you don't think this is worth every bit of $500K, well, you just can't be helped.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sal...omePageTab=buy

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by FasterTraffic

If you don't think this is worth every bit of $500K, well, you just can't be helped.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sal...omePageTab=buy

I just heard a story today of gran-ma-ma that just sold her and her just recently deceased husband's home. She got $1.5M for a beach view Santa Monica place. She could've gotten more but she wanted out quick to move to Utah to be near the kids/grandkids. The person who bought it has plans to build a new home, sell, and get $6M. The $6M is both impressive and wild. Even at $5M too.

[polarbear]

And in suburban Meridian, Id, $319,000 buys you this. 5 Br. 3200 sq ft.



https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sal...01_rect/11_zm/

[polarbear]

Originally Posted by boracayjohnny

I just heard a story today of gran-ma-ma that just sold her and her just recently deceased husband's home. She got $1.5M for a beach view Santa Monica place. She could've gotten more but she wanted out quick to move to Utah to be near the kids/grandkids. The person who bought it has plans to build a new home, sell, and get $6M. The $6M is both impressive and wild. Even at $5M too.

My folks first house was a 2 br. bungalow in Santa Monica, up on the bluff, a block away from the beach. I think they said they paid $5800 for it in '36, had it paid off by '39. Sold it and bought a duplex in North Hollywood, right below Griffith Park.

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by polarbear

My folks first house was a 2 br. bungalow in Santa Monica, up on the bluff, a block away from the beach. I think they said they paid $5800 for it in '36, had it paid off by '39. Sold it and bought a duplex in North Hollywood, right below Griffith Park.

People would stampede for a price like your folks paid.

[FasterTraffic]

Originally Posted by polarbear

My folks first house was a 2 br. bungalow in Santa Monica, up on the bluff, a block away from the beach. I think they said they paid $5800 for it in '36, had it paid off by '39. Sold it and bought a duplex in North Hollywood, right below Griffith Park.

I (jokingly) suggested to my grandmother that I would buy her house for double what she paid. DOUBLE!! She was amused.

I showed her that Zillow calculates the appreciation on her home at roughly 2800%.

[polarbear]

Originally Posted by boracayjohnny

People would stampede for a price like your folks paid.

I grew up in this house.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5...?fullpage=true

Folks built it in 1950 for the princely sum of $26000... cash money. Relatives couldn't believe a) they'd pay that much for a house that b) was that far out in the boonies. Same family we sold it to in '72 still own it. I assume one of the kids have it.

*And I understand why. Tax assessment is $342,000, taxes about $5000. Roughly 1/10th of the real value (taxes bump to that after it's sold).

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by polarbear

I grew up in this house.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5...?fullpage=true

Folks built it in 1950 for the princely sum of $26000... cash money. Relatives couldn't believe a) they'd pay that much for a house that b) was that far out in the boonies. Same family we sold it to in '72 still own it. I assume one of the kids have it.

...the price then and now.

L-A is a funny place. It's common to see someone drive, for example; a MB G SUV with a base price of $123K, and live in an apt.

[Will]

Originally Posted by FasterTraffic

If you don't think this is worth every bit of $500K, well, you just can't be helped.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sal...omePageTab=buy

LOL. City slicker retards.

Originally Posted by polarbear

And in suburban Meridian, Id, $319,000 buys you this. 5 Br. 3200 sq ft.



https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sal...01_rect/11_zm/

LOL. Suburban retards. You could piss out the window and hit your next door neighbor's house.

[Broken Wind]

Originally Posted by Will

You could piss out the window and hit your next door neighbor's house.

Maybe 30 years ago. Today, not so much. Mine is more a soaker hose these days.

[simpleman68]

I was half wondering if our hood (Lehigh Valley) might jump up in this thread.
Scott

Piece from the NY Times


I don’t know of another place in the world that has gone from a submarket to a global hub in eight years

As a result, the stretch of eastern and central Pennsylvania that includes the Lehigh Valley has grown faster than any other market in the country over the last five years

Forbes has put us in the top 30 places to live in recent years. Due to low crime, proximity to NY and Philly metro markets, good schools etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/b...ore-ipad-share

[VITE1]

The housing market here in St Lucie county is booming. Lot's of people from the Northeast and upper Midwest are spending the majority of thier time here. Almost all are HNW individuals whose children are all grown and on thier own.

[FasterTraffic]

Originally Posted by VITE1

The housing market here in St Lucie county is booming. Lot's of people from the Northeast and upper Midwest are spending the majority of thier time here. Almost all are HNW individuals whose children are all grown and on thier own.

Hasn't that more or less always been the case, though? Nobody retires, sends their kids off to college, and then says, "You know what my life has been missing all these years? More bad weather and subzero temperatures."

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by FasterTraffic

Hasn't that more or less always been the case, though? Nobody retires, sends their kids off to college, and then says, "You know what my life has been missing all these years? More bad weather and subzero temperatures."

I sure I have commented before in many threads.....in Jan/Feb '97 I had 4' of snow in my driveway.....been trying to sell and move for 2 years....sold it for what I paid, finally April that year....lived there 7 years on account of the kids.....not seen one flake of snow except over the Sierra's from Reno to Grass valley near 2 years now.....But last Jan we did have frozen rain/ice on our HVAC unit....

[polarbear]

Originally Posted by Will

LOL. Suburban retards. You could piss out the window and hit your next door neighbor's house.

At this stage of my life, the last thing I want is acreage to take care of. A 1500 sq ft ranch with a three car garage in the right area sounds about perfect. We're thinking a little further south, down in the Willamette Valley though. Everyone dies famous in a small town, dontcha know.