On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:26:43 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

> On 7/24/2014 9:43 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:22:32 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Holy cow! You couldn't even rent a room here for that kind of money.
> >
> > I know. One bedroom apartments up the street are going for $3,000 a
> > month. How anyone can save to buy a home is beyond my comprehension.
> >
> A couple who were friends of my middle brother lived somewhere in SoCal
> (San Diego, maybe) for a few years before moving back to the Memphis
> area. (This was in the mid-1980's.) For a short time they lived with
> his father while looking for their own place. When they told us how
> much they had to pay in rent for a 1 bedroom apartment our jaws dropped.
> IIRC it was $1500 a month thirty years ago. *Their* jaws dropped when
> they saw what they could get for that kind of money in the Memphis area!
>
Yes, it's amazing how cheap land is in some areas. We were watching
some show and a huge (3,000+ sf), practically brand new home, sitting
on 5 acres of land (basically on the outskirts of whatever metro area)
was something like $350,000. Something like that would be
multi-millions here.

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