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In reply to the discussion: If you could live anywhere, where would you live? [View all]Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)My grandparents sold my folks our house that they'd bought new in the 50's. Family Lore is they paid cash for it, $23,000.
They sold it to my folks in 1975 for around $75,000. It's a small house (if it's over 1200 sq ft I'd be shocked) on a hillside with very little flat ground on the lot, but it's a 1/4 acre lot, and has a super view out the two large back decks. Probably go for about a $1M now.
Even back then Orinda was very upscale (it had been since it was established, mainly as a collection of vacation homes and small ranches for rich people from Oakland/SF in the early 20th century), we kinda had no business living there, it's only cause GP's weren't greedy. Other than the kids being mostly stuck-up assholes, I loved it there as a kid.
I'd live there again in a NY Minute if I could afford it. Which I can't.
Fun fact: Nicolle Wallace grew up in Orinda.