Alarm Bells Toll For Human Civilization As World's 12th Largest Mega-City To Run Out Of Water

[dreamnightwind]

120. Yes, there is still a backlog of bank-owned houses that have to sell

before home vaues here fully recover. This home's value has climbed back to within shouting distance of the balance owed on the mortgage (I've been making mortgage payments for 13 years though), but to recover the down payment, pay a selling commission and get out of here it still needs to go up by well over $100,000 (nearly 50% of what it is currently worth). But I'm not expecting to recover the down payment, it would be nice just to have the option to sell without owing money or facing foreclosure.

Ideally I would stay here, depends on employment though. We had been living off of my wife's salary and a now depleted inheritance from my family so when my jobwent away some 8 years ago I took time to recover some sanity and spent more time raising our son, restarted a long-neglected music career too, not that there is much money in it, it was what I loved to do.

Water supply is so far holding out, surprisingly, local spring water that has yet to dry up despite this long drought.

Yes I am in a small coastal mountain community, official population 125 people! Very bohemian and rustic, smack in the redwoods, a stream runs through the back yard when it has water in it.

I've never been to Mariposa that I can recall. Sunny? That's what I miss most, can't garden here and have to drive out of the woods to get much sun. Regards.