Ottensen said:

fluid said:

I'm rying to find new homes prices in California. Been searching sites and can't seem to find any. Are there any new homes out in California? They're all like 2 and $300K and are all built before the 70s. Here i Texas you can get a brand new house for $100,000. That and you can get a used 2 story for the same.

$100,000 ??? Holy hell, you can't even buy a studio apartment for that in Hamburg . Houses here start at one million euros

Maybe you might want to consider not looking for homes in Cali. Texas sounds like a good bargain

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Right? $100k in NYC won't get you anything either. Okay, well maybe a 100 sq. ft. studio in a terrible neighborhood far from Manhattan. The brownstones in my neighborhood probably start at $1 mill easy. Rents start at about $2000+/month for a small one bedroom. I'll never be able to be a homeowner in NYC - unless I win the lottery!

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Cerebus said:

kimrachell said:

i lived in the sacramento area from 1992-2005, and sometimes i miss it. it was a lot cheaper over there, and if you move to the right area it's nice. the best areas to live crime wise and neighborhood wise, is roseville, folsom, eldorado hills. i lived in citrus heights in the early 90's, didn't like it there at all. and lived in elk grove from 96-2005 and it wasn't bad when i first moved there, was quiet and lived in a really nice neighborhood. but now elk grove has went down hill a lot! it's too close to south sac. which is not a good area. and galt is near by as well, which sucks too. so if i ever move back to sacto. area, i will avoid the bad places.

I lived in Fair Oaks, worked in Roseville and had a girlfriend in Placerville (of all places). I'll never move back there, though. It's too damn hot and the people are just different enough from those in the Bay Area that I noticed it. More hicks and hot rods. But I LOVED Folsom. All tucked away by itself just outside of the major population areas. There was a GREAT record store there at the time where I bought some great hard to find items. It's probably closed now.

was the record store called "Dimples records" on east bidwell in folsom? if so, it's still there. i like folsom too. i think it's the best location to live out of the whole sacto area. you're right about people being hicks and into hot rods LOL! my husband used to work in placerville & that place is not too friendly to people that aren't white.

kimrachell said:

Cerebus said:

I lived in Fair Oaks, worked in Roseville and had a girlfriend in Placerville (of all places). I'll never move back there, though. It's too damn hot and the people are just different enough from those in the Bay Area that I noticed it. More hicks and hot rods. But I LOVED Folsom. All tucked away by itself just outside of the major population areas. There was a GREAT record store there at the time where I bought some great hard to find items. It's probably closed now.

was the record store called "Dimples records" on east bidwell in folsom? if so, it's still there. i like folsom too. i think it's the best location to live out of the whole sacto area. you're right about people being hicks and into hot rods LOL! my husband used to work in placerville & that place is not too friendly to people that aren't white.

It was Dimples on E Bidwell! I looked it up and have been searching their website since I made my last post. Yeah, mountain folk are a strange lot, to be sure. They don't take kindly to outsiders working up there, period.

How about San Berdino? It's a city of 5 million 50 miles east of LA. Is there stuff to do and cheap houses out there. 50 miles I could just drive to LA but not py the prices.

$1 million for a house!!!??? I know Euros are wrth more than dollars but does 1 million equally alot in German dollars? I'd have to get a german job first cause american money would be useless. I heard Germany ws affordable. And holyshit I aspired to be an engineer. The highest we'd get is $100K a year. That's around $10 thousand a month. A Brownsstone in New York city for $1 il equals around That's $3,000 a monh just for the house Wih taxes ould be $6,000. Well taxes around he country are cheaper. A realor is elling me and I've calculated on a lender site thae a $100,000 house in Houston Texas will cost roughly $1,000/Mo. At hat rae a Browntone for a mil would run $10,000 a month. A senior engineer couldn' afford that. For 1 mil I hope this is a big 3 story brownsone. Cause those aren't event hat big are they? If tha's cheapest shiiizzz forget about a house in New York City.

my house is a shitty old brick veneer place built in 1960 and it's valued at $750K

ZombieKitten said:

my house is a shitty old brick veneer place built in 1960 and it's valued at $750K

Has to be in Cali or New ork City.

fluid said:

ZombieKitten said:

my house is a shitty old brick veneer place built in 1960 and it's valued at $750K

Has to be in Cali or New ork City.

so Melbourne, Australia is totally out then?

ZombieKitten said:

fluid said:

Has to be in Cali or New ork City.

so Melbourne, Australia is totally out then?

SO why are you using the dollar sign? 750K, old shit house, must be huge as hell hen. Or do you new houses cost in the millions.

There's no way you'd spend a million on a house in Texas unless ou're rich. Even they could possibl find a good sized mansion for 6 figures.

call my friend Peter. 323-555-0124. he might even slap de bass for you.

fluid said:

ZombieKitten said:

so Melbourne, Australia is totally out then?

SO why are you using the dollar sign? 750K, old shit house, must be huge as hell hen. Or do you new houses cost in the millions.

There's no way you'd spend a million on a house in Texas unless ou're rich. Even they could possibl find a good sized mansion for 6 figures.

it's not the house that is worth anything, it's the prime piece of real estate it's built on. Prices are driven up by the demand to live in this particular area. It's not a huge house, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, single level with modest yard.

We also use dollars here! and since ours reached parity to yours, I didn't bother writing AUD$

Oh so without the land how much is the house worth? At tha much you can sell the land and get a real good house.

fluid said:

Oh so without the land how much is the house worth? At tha much you can sell the land and get a real good house.

we probably could, but we'd have to move really far from the centre of town which none of us want. We could also raze this house and build a nicer one. I am not sure how much that would cost though.

Cerebus said:

fluid said:

San Fransisco is nt the nastiest place That's where everybody wants to move to.

You've heard of irony? Sarcasm? Of COURSE it's not a nasty place. The Bay Area is the my favorite place on Earth! But we don't need more people moving here.

You bastard!!!

You don't know how much I miss it. The BART, Rasputin Music, Amoeba, Telegraph Ave, the nasty ass AC Transit , Sunvalley Mall, Lake Merrit.........

BlackAdder7 said:

call my friend Peter The Naked Realtor. 323-555-0124. he might even slap de bass for you.

i think i might find him distracting

Cerebus said:

kimrachell said:

i lived in the sacramento area from 1992-2005, and sometimes i miss it. it was a lot cheaper over there, and if you move to the right area it's nice. the best areas to live crime wise and neighborhood wise, is roseville, folsom, eldorado hills. i lived in citrus heights in the early 90's, didn't like it there at all. and lived in elk grove from 96-2005 and it wasn't bad when i first moved there, was quiet and lived in a really nice neighborhood. but now elk grove has went down hill a lot! it's too close to south sac. which is not a good area. and galt is near by as well, which sucks too. so if i ever move back to sacto. area, i will avoid the bad places.

I lived in Fair Oaks, worked in Roseville and had a girlfriend in Placerville (of all places). I'll never move back there, though. It's too damn hot and the people are just different enough from those in the Bay Area that I noticed it. More hicks and hot rods. But I LOVED Folsom. All tucked away by itself just outside of the major population areas. There was a GREAT record store there at the time where I bought some great hard to find items. It's probably closed now.

I used to live in Rocklin, and I hated that stupid little town. Full of Stepford Wives and stuck up assholes. This is after living in the Bay Area for 30 years. I liked that everything up there was newly built and clean. I would love to live in Cool or Placerville, or this community called Lake of the Pines up past Auburn.

jone70 said:

Ottensen said:

$100,000 ??? Holy hell, you can't even buy a studio apartment for that in Hamburg . Houses here start at one million euros

Maybe you might want to consider not looking for homes in Cali. Texas sounds like a good bargain

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Right? $100k in NYC won't get you anything either. Okay, well maybe a 100 sq. ft. studio in a terrible neighborhood far from Manhattan. The brownstones in my neighborhood probably start at $1 mill easy. Rents start at about $2000+/month for a small one bedroom. I'll never be able to be a homeowner in NYC - unless I win the lottery!

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Yeah, NYC is insane...I couldn't live in the city (so many people are moving down south who used to live in NY because they can no longer afford it.) It's bad enough that I live in the Tri-State area which is about 25-30 minutes away from the city. I've considered moving to the West Coast area before. Nevada or someplace in Cali that isn't so expensive, but not in a crappy neighborhood either. I'm a warm weather person; I'm so sick of the cold winters here in NJ.

Freakin' A! I just snagged a loft apartment (rental) in the Bay Area priced WAY undermarket! It's a miracle.

But San Bernadino, how are house prices there instead of LA? Is it like part of LA or a boring town?

fluid said:

But San Bernadino, how are house prices there instead of LA? Is it like part of LA or a boring town?

First, and most important, Southern California (including the Inland Empire, mountains and desert areas), the Bay Area (including the Silicon Valley, wine country and lower NorCal), the Central Valley (including Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada foothills) and true Northern California are really like four different states (and could easily be broken down even further within those larger defined spaces). Although they overlap some, their industry, ecology, weather and people can be very different from one area to another (weather in the Bay Area alone is a ton with micro-climates). Second, it would be hard to know what you like best, or exactly what would best suit what you're looking for, without visiting and spening a bit of time in each of these areas (although it's pretty doubtful that most people would purposely be looking to move to true Northern California).

In order to leave my personal feelings regarding SoCal and the SBV out of the equation I would just suggest that you read the SB/SBV Wiki pages (which are quite detailed) and official site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino_Valley

http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/

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Cerebus said:

fluid said:

But San Bernadino, how are house prices there instead of LA? Is it like part of LA or a boring town?

First, and most important, Southern California (including the Inland Empire, mountains and desert areas), the Bay Area (including the Silicon Valley, wine country and lower NorCal), the Central Valley (including Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada foothills) and true Northern California are really like four different states (and could easily be broken down even further within those larger defined spaces). Although they overlap some, their industry, ecology, weather and people can be very different from one area to another (weather in the Bay Area alone is a ton with micro-climates). Second, it would be hard to know what you like best, or exactly what would best suit what you're looking for, without visiting and spening a bit of time in each of these areas (although it's pretty doubtful that most people would purposely be looking to move to true Northern California).

In order to leave my personal feelings regarding SoCal and the SBV out of the equation I would just suggest that you read the SB/SBV Wiki pages (which are quite detailed) and official site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino_Valley

http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/

[Edited 1/17/11 18:12pm]

SoCal and NorCal are like 2 different states, I've been told (I haven't had the chance to visit Southern Cali yet so I can't really give an opinion on that part of the state)