Posted on 02/06/2007 10:21:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Edwards also clear cut alot of acreage behind the house. Probably going to open up a hospital on that land so he'll be closer to his income stream. Or a mobile home park so he'll be closer to his voting base in the "other" America.....
Go try to build something in San Francisco (or any other major city) and see what it takes. It is nearly impossible unless you are politically connected. Most city councils are no growth based and were elected by the voters. Pretty obvious why there's a shortage of affordable housing...
Nobody made this guy live in San Francisco. Instead of whining about prices there, maybe he should look elsewhere.
Excellent!
Living space, unless one belongs to that tiny percentage called the upper class, is shrinking as the human population continues to grow. While the rural poor leave open sky and rolling plains to flock to the edge of the metropolis--they crowd into ramshackle slums in the third world, or one-room units in the first--the middle class is clinging to its precious status by contending with far smaller living spaces than those of previous generations.
A Few Very Helpful Examples are Pictured Below:
This one bedroom house was listed for sale for $ 515,000 in Los Angeles. It did not sell but may reappear on the market later this year:
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You're still in Mass? Let the Liberals have it and move to the South. Not only that people are friendlier, but it's cheaper obviously from the evidence you pointed out.
Even if the land is limited without any government interference, the skyscrapers could be built at a lower cost in which the developers would pass it on to the customers.
Its called ridiculous taxes. That is the problem. Too many people in this country need to speak up and ask where their hard earned money is going. And IMO many of these taxes are unconstitutional.
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"I remember when a middle-class family could own a Victorian home
in San Francisco. "
LOL!
That was in the era of the old movie "I Remember Mama"!
(Early 1900s)
Before the housing market got into permanent bubble mode via the
gay influx and the Internet bubble!
Geez. That shack would go for around $30,000 where I live, if that much. I think my garage is bigger than that, and my entire home cost less than half of what that one was selling for and I even have 5 acres of land lol.
"We own a lovely, 2,700 sq ft home in a very nice neighborhood, with a swimming pool, on a 1/4 acre lot."
Good for you. You're living the American dream. Pollls show that 80% of Americans want that American dream - a home, on an acre, with a white picket fence and a garden in back, or some variation such as your home.
You're also in the vanguard of reclaiming our property rights. Many states passed Kelo reform this past election. The more property owners we have, the more property rights people demand. In many areas the smarxist growth purveyors are on the run. We are seeing federal district and state courts re-establishing our property rights.
In Michigan, the state supreme court shot down the state's Kelo land grabs. The court made it known to municipalities that it will not tolerate any land grabs from bureaucrats or thieving politicians.
In Utah, a federal district court ruled that counties are sovereign and the federal government may take no action in those counties without the county government's approval.
We're on a roll thanks to the increasing number of private property owners and have the legal tools to crush the Marxist land grabbers and crooked government manipulators.
Sounds like Andrew Lam has a bad case of Class Envy. The American Dream has not downsized, it has been redefined by the liberal DBM.
Large cities are "hell holes" and tend to draw all the libs so someone else can foot the bill. More government means less freedom. If he doesn't like the small home he can afford in SF, he can move somewhere else.
Excerpts:
While the housing downturn has depressed once-thriving real estate markets around the nation, far-flung suburbs of major cities have suffered the most abrupt market correction. * * *
"It's been hard for sellers to comprehend, and I'm usually the bearer of bad news," said Mike Wagner, a real estate broker who works in Loudon.
"The news is: Your home is worth $100,000 less than it was a year and a half ago."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/bs_nm/usa_economy_housing_dc;_ylt=As_GMBotUtOlh13kNoP0c6qyBhIF
Graphic proof of this trend is posted here:
Congrats on living the American Dream. The left would say you have MORE than your share of wealth and want to make you live in a shack like they do in the large cities.
We live in a small suburb of Austin, and have a couple more years on our loan. I'd like to pay it off, but the interest rate we got on the 15 yr loan was too good to pass up.
There is no way I could live in a large city again. Been there - done that. The commute is about one hour, but I'll take that over the liberal city government. The wife doesn't work at a paid job, so she stay busy doing housework.
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