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Posted on 08/06/2007 7:38:17 AM PDT by truthkeeper
We sold our 90 year old house in the city of San Fernamdo 12 years ago to 2 Mexican families for $150,000.
I was shocked to see online that the house is for sale for $634,900!
Well, we do know some are. We just don’t know how many are.
Say, I was watching 1 Against 100 (A Network Game Show) on Friday evening. One question was, “Who is the Mayor of Washington, D.C.” One option was Richard Daily. Ten of fifteen people got it wrong and lost $263,000 for the contestant.
Now there’s a few brain trusts. And we wonder why some folks don’t get what’s going on today as it applies to the environment or the need for the War on Terrorism. They’re so tuned out.
Not sure what you’d call it now, but it was at 1875 North Batavia Street. I think there’s some kind of industrial park there now. We sold it back in 1968 when we moved to Santa Ana. We moved back to Orange in 1971 and lived near downtown. Shoulda kept it.
I saw more license plates on cars from Mexico on Van Nuys Blvd. than the U.S.....
That’s what I’m thinking...
I sold my 1600 sq.ft. house on 3000 sq. ft. of lot in Orange County last year, and put a nice down (invested the rest) on a LARGER (2000 sq. ft.) home on an acre which was 1/3 the price of the home I had just sold.
California has gone insane in more ways than one.
Who else would need 6-8 bedrooms?.........A lot of Mormons in California?..........
I remember when my family used to go to Panorama City and shop at the May Company or Orbachs even before the Northridge mall was built. Just check the area out now!...Welcome to the third world in your back yard!...The whole S.F. Valley basically sucks now!
Nope—just 12-16 families worth of illegals. (Yes, it’s happening.)
I live in the Valley.
You're right.
6-8 bedrooms? That's a joke. Just to heat and cool it would cost a fortune.
I have seen those max homes on minimum lots. The developers are nuts. Who in their right mind would purchase a home that literally shadows the neighbors home 6 feet away. You change the channel on your TV remote and it changes your neighbors channel.
We had friends that moved into a home like that. They told us they could hear almost every word, cough and argument their neighbors made. I'd take a smaller home on a larger, more private lot any day, rather than these cookie cutter, giant boxes that almost lean against each other.
A friend of mine lives in Canyon Lake and is trying to persuade me to move to that area. I couldn't afford Canyon Lake, but she's talking Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Temecula, etc. I'm sure it's better than where I am now, but I take it that area is getting a lot of illegals, too?
Like your tag line. Can I use it?
FRegards,
Yeah... Taft and Batavia. Very valuable industrial property now.
Same thing over in the heavily Latino (90% give or take) city of Coachella...built for the demographics of extended family, or multi-family occupancy.
Along that general line, I guess it's cultural that the entire family goes places as a group. Last Thursday, I was in the ER in Indio with my 94 year old father, and a patient got ambulanced in and deposited in the next little curtained area....before long, I counted 16 family members crowded into that little cubby hole.
Ern and Batavia are even more valuable...to Mrs. Bat anyway...
Certainly. When were you there. I'm thinking about going back for a few days next month for the Orange High School All Class Reunion at Hart Park near downtown.
Live & learn. I guess hindsight really is 20/20. I couldn’t afford to live there now, even if I wanted to.
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