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Jer

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Just buy your new house with cash. Problem solved.
If that was a requirement, I think most Americans - myself included, would be living in cardboard boxes. Right or wrong, that's reality of savings and credit thesedays.
 
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If that was a requirement, I think most Americans - myself included, would be living in cardboard boxes. Right or wrong, that's reality of savings and credit thesedays.


It’s been the reality throughout history in most societies.
 

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Lets see in LA morning rush hour that is about a 2-3 mile drive. you got it easy my friend

In SoCal I would take the 133 home through Laguna Canyon. Not a bad view.

Somehow the commute became a great way to unwind after a day of work. Sometimes I'd take PCH home. Take a little longer but the ocean air is pretty sweet.
 

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If that was a requirement, I think most Americans - myself included, would be living in cardboard boxes. Right or wrong, that's reality of savings and credit thesedays.
That was very much sarcasm...
 
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It’s been the reality throughout history in most societies.

Our species has spent approximately 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers; 12,000 years as subsistence-level farmers, and roughly the past 250 years living in the luxury of industrialization.

So...

94.2% of the time we weren't even "homeless" in the sense permanent homes were rare
5.7% of the time living in the squalor of peasant-/serf-/slave-based societies
0.0011% of the time living in a situation where having a nice home could even be a thing
 
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In SoCal I would take the 133 home through Laguna Canyon. Not a bad view.

Somehow the commute became a great way to unwind after a day of work. Sometimes I'd take PCH home. Take a little longer but the ocean air is pretty sweet.
Orange county and South Orange county is certainly some beautiful country
Lots of podcast time for sure.
 

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Our species has spent approximately 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers; 12,000 years as subsistence-level farmers, and roughly the past 250 years living in the luxury of industrialization.

So...

94.2% of the time we weren't even "homeless" in the sense permanent homes were rare.
5.7% of the time living in the squalor of peasant-/serf-/slave-based societies
0.0011% of the time living in a situation where having a nice home could even be a thing
Heard the cavemen tried building nice houses but those damn dinosaurs kept squashing them.
 

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Orange county and South Orange county is certainly some beautiful country
Lots of podcast time for sure.

At times the marine layer would spill over the mountains and down into the valley. Pretty amazing stuff to see just driving home.

Really miss that place. Those types of things just don't happen in my part of the world
 
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At times the marine layer would spill over the mountains and down into the valley. Pretty amazing stuff to see just driving home.

Really miss that place. Those types of things just don't happen in my part of the world

Used to live on top of a big hill in CR (Bowman Woods) and on occasion it would be clear or not too bad at the top but foggy at the bottom. I am sure that is similiar.
 

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Used to live on top of a big hill in CR (Bowman Woods) and on occasion it would be clear or not too bad at the top but foggy at the bottom. I am sure that is similiar.

Kind of. The fog would pour over the mountain from the ocean. Llke it was coming out of a pitcher.

I was watching ball in Newport. Friend's condo wall would basically open up for an ocean view. We all watched the sunset over the ocean and then the wall of marine layer come in.

It's really something. None of us got angry putting the game on pause.
 
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Kind of. The fog would pour over the mountain from the ocean. Llke it was coming out of a pitcher.

I was watching ball in Newport. Friend's condo wall would basically open up for an ocean view. We all watched the sunset over the ocean and then the wall of marine layer come in.

It's really something. None of us got angry putting the game on pause.

God damn hippies.
 
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How much would the price have to stop to have the payment be close to before?

I don’t know, just a quick observation. Also, this is east coast, so the prices in general are higher, driving the p&i with it too.