Dear God…

Mon, Nov 29, 2004
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Dear God,

I moved to California for a reason. What is with the under-60-degree temperatures here in San Jose today? Is it too much to ask, that since 45-year-old, 3BR, 1400-square-foot houses right down the street from me routinely sell for nearly $600,000, that we could at least have 72-degree balmy weather year-round? You heard me; it’s not enough to have it 9 months out of the year. I don’t pay ridiculously high prices for everything only to be stuck with 54-degree weather in November, December, and January!

Please fix this outrage immediately. Otherwise, we’ll have to leave it to the elected hippies to enact a law against cold temperatures, and we all know that the legislature here is shockingly ineffectual.

Love,
A Concerned California Citizen

Sarah Fay says:

11/29/2004 at 4:57 pm

I really like all of the exposed dirt in the backyard, that alone is worth 20k.

Jakiao says:

11/29/2004 at 8:15 pm

Ah hush =p You know very well that while you bask away in 54*F, I’m being snowed on at 2*F! Bring me back to San Jose ;_;

Safety Cap says:

11/30/2004 at 7:38 am

Bah – up until yesterday we were sweatting it out at 80 degrees IN FRIGGIN NOVEMBER 29th!!!

So, when you bellyache about how c-c-cold it is, remember, you could be here, in Hell. Besides being a red state, we don’t have a Tommy’s Burger or decent Mexican food. It is enough to make a man throw himself under a bus.

Thank you.
🙂

ces says:

12/3/2004 at 9:45 am

Ok, So how do you afford an uber-expensive 50’s/60’s tract house in the most overpriced market in the country? Or do you rent?

I suppose I shouldn’t make fun of San Jose real estate prices, the Seattle area is getting nearly as bad (though a house like the one you linked could go for as little as $250,000)

My neighborhood is weird price-wise. There are 45 year old 3BR homes going for $250k and brand-new 3 and 4BR homes going for almost $600k. The newer homes are much larger square footage wise than the older homes, but they are poorly built by comparison. The new homes are also on the absolute smallest lot size the zoning will allow and so don’t really have usable yards. Most of the older homes in the neighborhood have fairly large lots. I fail to understand the logic, such as it is, behind real-estate pricing.

SlashChick says:

12/3/2004 at 11:43 am

I rent. 🙂

I calculated that owning this same place, at the prices duplexes are selling for now, would make my mortgage payment almost double my rent payment, and that’s after I leased out the other half of the duplex. It’s just not worth it.

ces says:

12/3/2004 at 3:15 pm

I figured you probably rented.

I’m stuck in pretty much the same deal here in Seattle (rent being less than the monthly mortgage payment on the same place). Though fortunately if I bought a duplex I would come out ahead on the deal.

The biggest stumbling block for me right now is not having the down payment. I did at one time but I spent the majority of my savings during my 2.5 years of unemployment.

Thanks to the new job, hopefully I’ll be in a position to buy a house in the next 12 months. I also got a boatload of stock options so potentially one day I’ll be able to afford a *REALLY* nice house.

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