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Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 2:32pm
Rick Reno,
Your is a pronoun, reflecting genitive form. You're is a contraction, comprised of a normally nominative case subject and verb.
Apparently good grammar was less emphasized in earlier generations.
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 2:45pm
Troll,
lol. I've never even had a beard. I did use to kick bullies' asses when they fucked with me though. Bullies are pretty much always wimps; which you probably didn't realize about yourself growing up while thinking you were tough by taking the retarded kid's lunch money.
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 2:48pm
you are from a different generation and for that I am sorry for you.
LMFAO.
Apparently you were concerned about yourselves. Or didn't you have children? I sure hope not.
Randy H, any chance of being in $B during the labor day holidaze? If so Sire, I most humbly offer you the chance to get loaded at my pathetic rental.
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 3:04pm
surfer-x
I'd be there if I could. Doubly so since the inlaws will be in town, lol. Thanks for the offer. I'll take you SoCalers up on it someday, you have my word.
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 3:36pm
Reno,
Since your opinion does not matter to me or probably anyone who has worked their entire life
Funny, considering I was born poor in southern Indiana, grew up poor in Southern Ohio, and paid my own way through mega public university. But I surely couldn't have worked for anything in my life because I'm not a Boomer. Oh, and I lost two before having my son. So fuck you and your self righteousness.
(ok, calming down now. maybe i will come down to $B over Labor Day)
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 3:43pm
SQT,
Yea, (s)he really pissed me off. Typical self-righteous crap. Make up some shit for credibility without even stopping for one moment to think about all the people (s)he might be offending who actually suffered losses, but don't use it to solicit pity when they're losing an argument.
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 3:49pm
As I'll have the in-laws in town, I'll find the single malt whether in $B or MarinPrime. I'll plead my case to the spouse, but I doubt she'll allow me to abandon her to her parents. Maybe we'll both come, lol.
Oh, c'mon guys, Rick reno is a troll and not even a very good one at that.
Though I guess it is kind of a slow night....
Hey, someone mentioned that home prices are going down in Texas... I just read an article that said they were up 11%.
I know another couple that moved to North Carolina, Durham this time. North Carolina seems to be the spot for some reason. I didn't hate it when I was stationed at Ft. Bragg 20 years ago, but other than Chapel Hill and the UNC co-eds, I couldn't see a lot to recommend about it either.
Randy H
2006 Aug 16, 4:14pm
If you truly lost your son then you have my uncategorical sympathies. Many others have also suffered losses, and even though you have no sympathy for them, I still do for you.
Just a suggestion: Raising such personal issues in a blog is ill advised.
Rick Reno,
Are you here here to troll or get sympathy with random pieces of your sad life? Neither are really appropriate for this website, and those two goals are incompatible with each other.
Rick Reno Says:
"...Your Damm right I worked my entire life in California 60Years...I am Ashamed of americas young people - as far as I am concerned they are all worthless.. Me ME ME and fuck anyone else that gets in my way..."
Comment: That's the hippy-ass, Boomers generation that conveniently morphed into the pot-smoking, Zep-listening "ME" generation of the '70s.
Many later became disco daddies when it was fashionable circa '78-'79.
They later degenerated into the leading edge "Yuppies" that sold out
their misguided 60's idealism for the almighty $$$, and did a lot of cocaine on their breaks working for IBM, Intel and HP, etc.
In other words, they jumped on every self-serving bandwagon & shameless pimped every trend that rolled down the Zeitgeist.
"I Played by the same rules that are in place now - the same rules that you will have to play by because there is more of us than you lazy bastards. Quit crying a complaining and earn it just like we did..."
Comment: There are no rules, only the choas of the post-modern Boomer
slash and burn political, social and economic mess that we were left to clean up after the party.
"(B)y the way I spent two years in south east asia in the 60’s I did not like it but I did my duty and I am proud of myself for doing it - what about you what have you done for America besides complain…"
Comment: US Army - Counterintelligence Specialist, Ft. Bragg NC, 1986-'89. US Army Reserve - Intelligence Analyst 1990-1992.
Etc., etc., etc...
You sound like an angry old bat that's got his share of the pie but that's losing his faculties...
I had a Son he died of Crib Death in 1974 at 5 years old
They also think it could be the newborn baby 'forgetting' it is outside of the womb in sleep and stopping breathing -- so only a developmental problem in the first year of life... they've usually gotten over that hump after 5 years of practice, and usually outgrown the crib also...
Randy H
2006 Aug 17, 1:59am
Also, Glen Ellen isn’t in Marin County.
Yea, I was so irritated that I didn't even bother to point that out. (S)he's either extremely confused after years of alcoholism or fabricating the entire tale.
The old guy is a loon! If his story was fabricated how sick! I find old boomers pathetic anyway. And I'm 40 something I generally don't hang with my peer age group anyway. But hen again my my partner is 20+ yeras younger than I.
Peter P
2006 Aug 17, 2:29pm
The truth is, we can call whoever a troll. Tragedy happens every day, everywhere.
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By Joe Schome.
To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the bubble is that its effects are felt differently in differnet areas. Not just on a nationwide level -- appreciation has been mostly flat in TX, while prices have tripled in many parts of CA -- but the bubble even affects different regions of the same state in a disparate way.
For example, while the median price in the SF Bay Area is higher than the LA median, I think that SF is nonetheless far, far more affordable than LA.
For example, you can get a 2BR condo in a decent school district like Walnut Creek (average SAT score 1140) for $200k. To get a 2BR condo in an LA school district with that kind of average SAT score, you'd have to spend at least $400k, and probably $600k.
The disparity in SFH prices isn't as pronounced, but there is a disparity there too. For example, as of this posting there are 32 SFH's for sale in the SF Bay Area's best public school district, Cupertino (average HS SAT score 1251). In San Marino, the LA area's best public school district (average HS SAT score 1231), there are 5. Now, Cupertino has roughly two and a half times as many listings as San Marnio and is about four times as populous, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but the fact remains that Cupertino is cheaper. Also -- and this is really important -- SFH's are not the only type of housing for sale in Cupertino. There are 2BR condos in Cupertino starting at $545k. San Marino is zoned solely for single family homes, there is not a single condo in the entire community. The cheapest avaialble listing of any kind in San Marino is a 1,000 square foot 2BR house for $798k.
So viewed in this light, while the SF Bay Area may have a significantly higher median price than LA, it is actually far more afforadble. A middle class, college-educated family not might want to live in a 2BR condo in Walnut Creek, but they can afford to do so if they stretch just a little bit. In SoCal, by contrast, the situation is much worse for middle class families. While there are several $200k condos in Walnut Creek, a place with very good schools, there is not a single 2BR condo listed for less than $200k in Compton, SoCal's worst public school district. Thus, the folks in SoCal are getting squeezed by the bubble a lot more than folks in NorCal.
The bubble is even more intersting in places like NYC. There, a generic 2BR condo in a one of the nicer areas of NYC's Upper West Side will cost you $949k. We're talking about Jerry Seinfeld's apartment here, not a high-end place with a view of Central Park or the river. The upper-income suburbs of New York are dirt cheap by comparison. Private schools are a must. Mehdham, NJ has SFH's starting at $374k; Scarsdale, NY (a city with an average per capita family income in excess of $200k) SFH's start at $600k. Values are all over the map in the NYC area. Clearly, the bubble affects different regions differently.
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