On 7/25/2014 8:26 AM, 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!
>
> Jill

Memphis is just beautiful, and being in the middle of the country, the
cost of living is favorable. I will not move to the East coast or the
West coast, almost everything is over priced. Real estate is expensive,
so are utilities, groceries, movie theaters and gas. It is cheap to live
in the middle.

Becca