Post #47639 by Hanalei_Pirate on Wed, Aug 13, 2003 10:07 AM

On 2003-08-13 09:14, Tiki_Bong wrote:
The reason prices are high here is because there is some reason people WANT to move here. The reason prices are lower elsewhere, is because there is some reason people DON'T want to live there.

You're not going to buy a large house for a small price and say "wow, I scored. This place is great and no one but me knew!".

Yep and my husband works in the television industry so we MUST stay in California where all the networks are - we would love to relocate south maybe to Oceanside where I think you can still get a deal and have a nice life, but we can't do a commute like that. Also my whole family is here and why do I want to relocate myself in another state and be all alone? Half of my family has seriously talked about moving to Oregon/Washington. My sister and her husband are planning to move to Seattle; my step mom probably will want to follow her up there so there goes my dad and step mom and me and my brother like it here in So. Calif. by the beach but if dad goes, we probably will follow. Dad wants to move for the same reasons - it is unaffordable to retire here- he'd like to move into a bigger house than the one he has paid off in Placentia, Calif. but in his area that would mean a whole new mortgage and he's 63 now. The other side of the family bought in 1976 at the beach (where I lived until I was 18) and their house is paid and they got plenty of money, so they don't need to move anywhere and have been retired for many years now.