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In reply to the discussion: it will take 29 years for college grads to save 20% down on SF home, study shows [View all]CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)61. Apologies if I'm behind the times
I come and go through the Altamont Pass a lot, so I see a lot of big stores built up along the freeway as I go through Livermore. I remember Pleasanton as a nice (dare I say pleasant) small town with a fairgrounds, but I'm sure things have changed.
It would be a brutal commute though, wouldn't it, if you worked in San Jose? Other than that, and the home prices, it must be a pretty nice place to live.
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it will take 29 years for college grads to save 20% down on SF home, study shows [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Jul 2015
OP
CNBC says: China has over $28 billion in US housing/property invesments.
misterhighwasted
Jul 2015
#2
Shaking is just the beginning. Fire will be major, just as in 1906. Hills will not be immune.
Auggie
Jul 2015
#50
What's scary is that their calculation for the Oakland MSA isn't much better
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2015
#28
The other issue is family. People who have grown up in an area like that and have family there
pnwmom
Jul 2015
#43
Quite true, and that's happening too in many metro areas. One brings on the other. n/t
RKP5637
Jul 2015
#19
If one industry drives up the prices the other vocations in the area will either
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#25