[AtomicLabMonkey]

Originally Posted by sperry

Dude, I hope you have like $50k to put down on a house cuz most places need 10%. And a $500,000 home in Dublin / Pleasanton's gonna be like the "Yellow Beater House"... okay maybe not that bad...

My parents house in Danville (it's nice) would be a $300,000 to $400,000 home in Reno... they got it for like $500k in 1998... houses in that neighborhood sell upwards of $1.2M now. Housing is RETARDED EXPENSIVE in the Bay, esp. in the San Ramon Valley... I'd try to stay in Livermore... cheaper and closer to work, right?

'Course I haven't lived in the Bay pushing on 8 years now, so I prolly don't know what I'm talking about... but according to my parents, living there sucks ass if you don't already own a home.

BTW: I hear SLO is getting like that now too... remember those "I can't believe it's not condemed" houses that sold for $200k? Well, now they're $400k homes ! Oh and they've got 5 more years worth of frat parties in them... that's 5 more years of puke stains, keg damage, cars parked on the lawn, and random urination. Damn, I miss college.

LOL yeah I wish we had enough money to buy a house, we're just talking about renting another apartment/townhouse (that has a garage). She's probably gonna start school at Hayward in the fall though, so moving to Dub/Pl will help her out with her commute a *lot* so she doesn't have to deal with the 580 stretch through Livermore valley. I'd be going against traffic both ways to get to LLNL so it'd only be like a 15min. commute for me, and it would cut at least 30 minutes (usually like 45) off her commute to Hayward.

Yeah I hear the housing in SLO is getting mad expensive now, but I did a little checking and the prices in the surrounding areas still aren't too bad, some under $200k. Then you probably wouldn't have to deal with the partying/random urination factor in the house you're buying too.