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Cleita

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3. At one time they did and you could get a very nice home for that

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 07:39 PM

Nov 2014

price in the 70s before the passage of proposition 13, which inflated the RE market to where it is today all because people didn't want to pay higher property taxes.

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Google CEO Larry Page: Million Dollar Houses In Silicon Valley Should Only Cost $50,000 [View all] steve2470 Nov 2014 OP

One Google-related reason Retrograde Nov 2014 #1

my guess is a parking space in silicon valley would fetch more than $50,000. unblock Nov 2014 #2

Silicon Valley house cost $50k codecus Nov 2014 #9

At one time they did and you could get a very nice home for that Cleita Nov 2014 #3

Does he need "market driven economy" explained to him? lpbk2713 Nov 2014 #4

He can move Google to my neighborhood. lumberjack_jeff Nov 2014 #5

Sure, if you pay all the carpenters, etc., about 50 cents an hour pnwmom Nov 2014 #6

The countertops in those homes cost more than 50k. ileus Nov 2014 #7

Maybe he could pick up Google and move it to Detroit... hunter Nov 2014 #8

Surely he means "horses" instead of "houses" right. cemaphonic Nov 2014 #10