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Lots of homes at that price point in San Bernardino, Barstow, Palmdale, and other places East of LA... Same in Eastern Ventura County in Santa Paula. Or central Ventura County in places like Ojai and Oxnard and even Ventura (the city). All within about an hour drive of Los Angeles.

Lots of homes at that price point in San Bernardino, Barstow, Palmdale, and other places East of LA... Same in Eastern Ventura County in Santa Paula. Or central Ventura County in places like Ojai and Oxnard and even Ventura (the city). All within about an hour drive of Los Angeles.

http://www.homes.com/for-sale/salisbury-nc

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You're a fool if you think we aren't overpopulated. I consider my home, the SF bay area, overpopulated. Do you have any idea what home prices are like here? As a result, many of the people who grow up here, live here, and work here will never own a home; do you want to guess at the personal economic implications of renting for a lifetime in said housing market? I think you need to review your position on political science.

Wow. Just, wow. So because you CHOOSE to live in the highest density city in California, that means the WORLD is overpopulated?

Here's a solution for you: move to Hayfork, California. You can get 1200 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 1.75 baths, and 1.77 acres for $96,000. And less than 14,000 people in the county. A population density under 5 people per square mile.

Have you ever been to the Eastern side of your State? Traveled through northern Nevada? Across Wyoming? You'll find we're not over-populated. There are literally miles and miles of miles and miles.

You CHOOSE to live in a densely populated region. If you wanted, you could live just 5 hours north by car, in Hayfork, and have all the space you need.

Uh... houses are cheaper in Pleasanton than those near Silicon Valley?

Uh... houses are cheaper in Pleasanton than those near Silicon Valley?

Uh... houses are cheaper in Pleasanton than those near Silicon Valley?

Uh... houses are cheaper in Pleasanton than those near Silicon Valley?

Rural real estate, at least in the United States, is not depreciating. Rural housing might be, I don't know, but land prices are going up up up. I live in Osceola county Michigan. It's among the poorer counties in the state, mostly because there isn't much good farmland or industry. Anywho, 40 acres is routinely priced between $80000 and $100000. Nice land is higher. If you don't believe me:

http://www.homes.com/Real_Estate/MI/CountyType/OSC EOLA/Type/L

That's a small sample...

I used to work for Homes & Land Publishing Corporation in the pre-press and printing area. The business was to print those free Homes for sale type magazines found at grocery stores and real estate offices nationwide. The model was that associate publishers would sell ads containing pictures of houses and real estate agents, and sometimes pictures or mug shots would run in more than one sequential issue of the magazine.

We called that process a "pickup", the goal being to "pick up" the photo exactly as it was printed in the previous issue for the future issue. This was in the days before extremely large disk arrays were prevalent, and so the pickup process used to be done slowly, and manually.

When we automated the process, I wrote the program, and called it bounty. It took about a year before it announced its presence in the form of some bug or another that it couldn't recover from, and someone asked me what bounty was. After fixing the problem, they asked why it was called bounty - thinking of all the other meanings of bounty: a reward for capture of a criminal, the HMS Bounty, etc.

I said, it's Bounty... you know, the Quicker Picker-Upper.

I left shortly thereafter to come work for Simutronics, purveyors of fine role-playing games at http://www.play.net

-andy

I work in the tech end of the online real estate business. Our company pulls down data from foreclosure agencies (HUD, VA, FHA etc.) twice a day and after much reformatting and manipulation, reposts them on the web for all to use for free.

We also upload our data to Homes.com which then is passed on to MSN Homeadvisor, Yahoo! Real Estate and others (we have people call out of the blue who saw the data on sites we've never even heard of).

Problem is, most of the major Real Estate web companies don't update their data nearly often enough to keep up with the market. I've seen properties on MSN that have been off the market for months that have a "newly listed" icon next to them.

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