If that was a requirement, I think most Americans - myself included, would be living in cardboard boxes. Right or wrong, that's reality of savings and credit thesedays.
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In SoCal I would take the 133 home through Laguna Canyon. Not a bad view.
Somehow the commute became a great way to unwind after a day of work. Sometimes I'd take PCH home. Take a little longer but the ocean air is pretty sweet.
The driving in the winter can suck since it's mostly rural area, but a 30 minute commute isn't too bad.
Our species has spent approximately 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers; 12,000 years as subsistence-level farmers, and roughly the past 250 years living in the luxury of industrialization.
So...
94.2% of the time we weren't even "homeless" in the sense permanent homes were rare
5.7% of the time living in the squalor of peasant-/serf-/slave-based societies
0.0011% of the time living in a situation where having a nice home could even be a thing
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Orange county and South Orange county is certainly some beautiful country
Lots of podcast time for sure.
Hey, I could have afforded 5 sheets of plywood and the nails. No cardboard here.
So roughly 240 hours for 5 years is 1200 hours, 50 days driving as extra time.
Heard the cavemen tried building nice houses but those damn dinosaurs kept squashing them.
At times the marine layer would spill over the mountains and down into the valley. Pretty amazing stuff to see just driving home.
Really miss that place. Those types of things just don't happen in my part of the world
Used to live on top of a big hill in CR (Bowman Woods) and on occasion it would be clear or not too bad at the top but foggy at the bottom. I am sure that is similiar.
Kind of. The fog would pour over the mountain from the ocean. Llke it was coming out of a pitcher.
I was watching ball in Newport. Friend's condo wall would basically open up for an ocean view. We all watched the sunset over the ocean and then the wall of marine layer come in.
It's really something. None of us got angry putting the game on pause.
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Buckle Up: Home Prices Are Expected To Fall by a Lot—Even If There Isn't a Recession
The Federal Reserve's rate hikes slammed the brakes on the housing market and may cause a recession that would lead home prices to plunge.
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Buckle Up: Home Prices Are Expected To Fall by a Lot—Even If There Isn't a Recession
The Federal Reserve's rate hikes slammed the brakes on the housing market and may cause a recession that would lead home prices to plunge.
I hope so. I was looking at houses where we used to live, and interest rates alone seem to have increased the mortgage by 500-800/mo.
I don’t know, just a quick observation. Also, this is east coast, so the prices in general are higher, driving the p&i with it too.
Interesting that we can jump 320K new startups in 2 years when we have such a labor shortage, material shortage and supply chain issues.
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