[goldstategop]

The young are leaving the Northeast and California. There's no future for them there - not on what they make. A decent apartment in California is at least a 1G a month. You can buy a condo or apartment on a mortgage payment for half that or the same in other parts of the country. If all you can afford is rent, go ahead and rent. But it still makes more sense to build equity on a place of your own so you will have something to see you in your old age.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[ekwd]

They're taking the the Northeast and California social and political values with them when they go.

[taxed2death]

"The young are leaving the Northeast and California. There's no future for them there - not on what they make."

There are still a few good jobs in the trades left here (although the damned illegals are chipping away). Heck, I know a young guy who graduated about 6 years ago from a local trade / tech highschool and started his own plumbing company. He was in my shop not to long ago and his small business grossed over $600,000.00 last year. If you're not afraid of workin, you can still make a good buck here in the northeast.

I've got $600,000.00 - $750,000.00 houses popping up all around my neighborhood like mushrooms lately.