GENERAL TOPIC: The cost of living!

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:24 pm

OK OK OK - I'm a total retard (please, ok enough with the jokes)

but it's called

POWELL'S

http://www.hayesvalleyshop.com/stores/powells.html

I haven't been in a minute

POWELL's yes!!!

The best - please tell me you've been there!!!!!!!!!!

That's me on the wall

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:55 pm

DeadlyKungFu wrote:Eureka is one of the major welfare capitals of California. My inlaws lived just north of there (Patrick's Point), they knew better than to live near that town (they lived in a tiny trailer with a huge dog, they're far from snobs). Going through that town is like you're in the middle of nowhere midwest, with fog. Great restaurant at the Eureka Inn's Rib Room, 4 star actually, cool jazz. Rooms are so old you swear there's ghosts.

The bitch of it is, it's just GEORGIOUS! When it was the 8th day of 100/110 degrees here.......it hadn't hit 70 there!

I'm still considering living there, just not in "eureka".........

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:10 pm

djadonis206 wrote:but it's called POWELL'S

I'll have to go there for lunch tomorrow. I think that record shop is still cool DJ shop, racks of wax.

That neighborhood (Hayes Valley) is pretty good, one of the 'bohemian' parts of town and it'll probably stay that was as long as the projects at the bottom of the hill are still around. If not, it'll yuppify damn fast. Otherwise it's a good couple of blocks to live in, good bang for your SF rental buck. I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few Live users around there.

eyeknow - I guess you're used to the coastal fog and whatnot. I don't mind it but I do appreciate that I live in a much less foggy part of town. It's pretty hot in this part of town today but I can see the coastline and the fog is in full effect.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:24 pm

Speaking of the cost of living. Home prices across the US.

Overvalued or fairly priced?
City / Home prices (Actual / Equilibrium / Difference) Rating
Albuquerque NM $180.9 $188.6 -4% FairValue
Ann Arbor MI $243.1 $239.4 2% FairValue
Atlanta GA $203.0 $208.0 -2% FairValue
Atlantic City NJ $262.9 $186.6 41% Overpriced
Augusta GA $158.7 $192.3 -17% Undervalued
Austin TX $172.9 $171.6 1% FairValue
Bakersfield CA $233.5 $168.6 38% Overpriced
Baltimore MD $283.5 $242.9 17% Overpriced
Baton Rouge LA $150.2 $168.2 -11% FairValue
Birmingham AL $177.8 $197.0 -10% FairValue
Boise City ID $168.1 $173.8 -3% FairValue
Boston MA $380.4 $285.3 33% Overpriced B
rownsville-Harlingen TX $129.8 $143.8 -10% FairValue
Cape Coral-Fort Myers FL $278.4 $208.2 34% Overpriced
Charleston SC $251.6 $224.7 12% FairValue
Charlotte-Gastonia NC $190.7 $219.9 -13% FairValue
Chicago IL $266.3 $234.5 14% FairValue
Cincinnati OH $180.5 $206.0 -12% FairValue
Cleveland OH $173.4 $183.0 -5% FairValue
Colorado Springs CO $208.9 $203.3 3% FairValue
Columbia SC $167.3 $189.0 -11% FairValue
Columbus OH $192.4 $217.8 -12% FairValue
Dallas-Fort Worth TX $160.7 $186.2 -14% FairValue
Deltona-Daytona Beach FL $216.8 $168.0 29% Overpriced
Denver CO $238.0 $216.1 10% FairValue
Des Moines IA $167.1 $185.4 -10% FairValue
Detroit MI $156.6 $145.4 8% FairValue
Durham NC $209.3 $219.7 -5% FairValue
El Paso TX $127.5 $171.5 -26% Undervalued
Fayetteville NC $149.8 $183.0 -18% Undervalued
Fayetteville-Springdale AR $176.1 $167.7 5% FairValue
Fresno CA $269.7 $178.4 51% Overpriced
Grand Rapids MI $161.9 $160.9 1% FairValue
Greeley CO $195.7 $178.4 10% FairValue
Greensboro-High Point NC $162.7 $180.8 -10% FairValue
Greenville SC $166.7 $183.5 -9% FairValue
Hartford CT $237.2 $224.2 6% FairValue
Honolulu HI $390.4 $310.1 26% Overpriced
Houston TX $155.2 $177.9 -13% FairValue
Indianapolis IN $170.2 $197.6 -14% FairValue
Jacksonville FL $228.7 $190.7 20% Overpriced
Kansas City MO $171.9 $183.7 -6% FairValue
Knoxville TN $161.3 $181.9 -11% FairValue
Lakeland FL $170.1 $158.2 8% FairValue
Las Vegas NV $302.0 $227.5 33% Overpriced
Lexington KY $172.7 $188.8 -9% FairValue
Little Rock AR $155.9 $186.9 -17% Undervalued
Los Angeles-Anaheim CA $460.8 $294.1 57% Overpriced
Louisville KY $164.5 $179.0 -8% FairValue
Madison WI $224.6 $208.5 8% FairValue
McAllen-Edinburg TX $123.1 $156.2 -21% Undervalued
Memphis TN $162.6 $197.9 -18% Undervalued
Miami-West Palm Beach FL $298.7 $194.6 54% Overpriced
Milwaukee-Waukesha WI $217.1 $206.5 5% FairValue
Minneapolis-St. Paul MN $254.4 $226.9 12% FairValue
Modesto CA $304.8 $178.4 71% Overpriced
Myrtle Beach SC $190.7 $185.7 3% FairValue
Naples FL $419.9 $244.0 72% Overpriced
Nashville TN $179.6 $196.2 -8% FairValue
New Orleans LA $190.4 $188.0 1% FairValue
New York-North New Jersey NY $431.0 $300.5 43% Overpriced
Ocala FL $176.9 $155.5 14% FairValue O
gden-Clearfield UT $162.6 $160.4 1% FairValue
Oklahoma City OK $140.7 $149.0 -6% FairValue
Omaha NE $160.5 $172.5 -7% FairValue
Orlando FL $239.2 $196.3 22% Overpriced
Palm Bay-Melbourne FL $249.4 $179.1 39% Overpriced
Panama City FL $294.4 $211.1 39% Overpriced
Pensacola FL $217.7 $175.4 24% Overpriced
Philadelphia PA $247.2 $217.9 13% FairValue
Phoenix-Mesa AZ $244.1 $195.7 25% Overpriced
Pittsburgh PA $155.6 $182.0 -14% FairValue
Port St. Lucie-Fort Pierce FL $262.5 $181.6 45% Overpriced
Portland-Vancouver OR $231.8 $201.6 15% FairValue
Provo-Orem UT $173.2 $150.4 15% Overpriced
Raleigh NC $201.0 $222.4 -10% FairValue
Reno NV $338.1 $252.3 34% Overpriced
Richmond VA $219.7 $205.4 7% FairValue
Riverside-San Bernardino CA $325.1 $198.3 64% Overpriced
Sacramento CA $366.6 $230.9 59% Overpriced
Salt Lake City UT $194.5 $175.0 11% FairValue
San Antonio TX $149.0 $161.0 -7% FairValue
San Diego CA $491.6 $289.7 70% Overpriced
San Francisco-Oakland CA $737.7 $483.1 53% Overpriced
San Jose CA $599.2 $372.4 61% Overpriced
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria CA $573.1 $308.9 86% Overpriced
Sarasota-Bradenton FL $312.6 $218.2 43% Overpriced
Seattle-Tacoma WA $308.7 $286.6 8% FairValue
St. Louis MO $178.3 $172.5 3% FairValue
Stockton CA $353.2 $215.1 64% Overpriced
Tampa-St. Petersburg FL $219.7 $164.7 33% Overpriced
Tucson AZ $214.8 $171.3 25% Overpriced
Tulsa OK $133.6 $147.6 -9% FairValue
Vallejo-Fairfield CA $386.9 $244.6 58% Overpriced
Vero Beach FL $291.8 $205.5 42% Overpriced
Virginia Beach-Norfolk VA $250.0 $215.6 16% Overpriced
Washington-Arlington DC $377.9 $275.2 37% Overpriced
Wichita KS $125.6 $140.1 -10% FairValue
Wilmington NC $248.7 $217.2 15% FairValue
Winston-Salem NC $166.8 $177.8 -6% FairValue[/code]

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:45 pm

DeadlyKungFu wrote:
djadonis206 wrote:but it's called POWELL'S
I'll have to go there for lunch tomorrow. I think that record shop is still cool DJ shop, racks of wax.

That neighborhood (Hayes Valley) is pretty good, one of the 'bohemian' parts of town and it'll probably stay that was as long as the projects at the bottom of the hill are still around. If not, it'll yuppify damn fast. Otherwise it's a good couple of blocks to live in, good bang for your SF rental buck. I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few Live users around there.

Yeah, it's a really cool couple blocks - right up the street from the loin and down the street haight st if I'm not mistaken

Please go man - I always got the fried porkchops - it's all good food

and that store is still there? Cool - I'm seriously considering a trip down there soon just to get out of Seattle and be all San Fran for a minute - maybe a week before school starts in the fall

peace man!

Adonis

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:19 am

DeadlyKungFu wrote:Speaking of the cost of living. Home prices across the US.

Reno NV $338.1 $252.3 34% Overpriced

Sacramento CA $366.6 $230.9 59% Overpriced

Stockton CA $353.2 $215.1 64% Overpriced
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this is basically my area...give or take. Now, here in roseville/rocklin it's even higher BUT it's people with some sort of income. Real estate is really slow right now, but that's mostly because of interest rates.

Now, stockton is a dump compared to sac IMO and look at those prices!!!!

Then, there's reno........WHAT

Does working in a casino pay that much??????? .......please!

Seems to me that reno should be the 64% overpriced, with stockton at 59% and sac should be 34%..........

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:44 pm

I guess they were following this thread...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14074153/

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:05 pm

Naples FL $419.9 $244.0 72% Overpriced

Say huh? Whatever. Florida is a pit. I'm allowed to say that because I went to high school in Florida.

I don't know if you can call real estate "overpriced". It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:59 pm

Naples is a richy rich part town in Florida, a college friend grew up there, there's the uber rich then there's the swamp buggy races they hold here. The last and only time I went to Florida the f-ing bugs drew about a pint of blood an hour. All the houses down there have huge screened in pools. the front of the place looks normal, but the back has a 2 story metal and mesh screened in area around the pool, the bugs are that bad. Some people dig that place, I'll let them have it. Applebees and Cracker Barrell are fine dining down there (I was in the Ft Worth area just north of Naples). Amazing thunderstorms, warm gulf water, not much else. Miami's supposed to be cool.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:10 pm

DeadlyKungFu wrote:Miami's supposed to be cool.

Uh, it is cool - at least South Beach is

for like 5 days - any longer than that and it turns into a bad movie

If you're ever in Miami go to MONTY'S - The best Seafood I've ever eaten in my life

All this talk about Food and Traveling <--- My two favorite things in the world besides some other stuff

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:12 pm

Yeppers, fl is NOT the place for me..............

Besides, I'm so white, I get burned from overhead lighting!

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:36 pm

eyeknow wrote:Yeppers, fl is NOT the place for me..............

Besides, I'm so white, I get burned from overhead lighting!

my buddy josh is a "white" boy but he does ok...now let's take what you said and reverse it - what if you were hella black and in the snow - hmmmmm

like my boy Parker here

blakbeltjonez · Post by **blakbeltjonez** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:16 pm

Florida used to be a pretty cheap state to live in, but that has changed drastically over the last 5 years or so...

housing prices have gone way, way up since people started buying properties as alternate investments to the stock market, or to flip (resell at a higher price to someone else who comes along). on top of that, homeowner's insurance has skyrocketed to double, triple or more the rates of just a few years ago. recently, an insurance company wanted to raise it's rate again by up to 90%.

food prices have gone up a good bit too, in a state with notoriously low wages for the majority of it's residents. when a gallon of milk got to $3.70 and a 12 pack of Coke was "on sale" at $3.50, i knew the good ol' days were definitely gone for good.

but, overheated housing prices have happened down here before, usually with a predictable downturn after the party's over.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:37 am

blakbeltjonez wrote:Florida used to be a pretty cheap state to live in, but that has changed drastically over the last 5 years or so...

Florida strikes me as having a lot of different layers to it, some amazingly beautiful coastline on 2 large bodies of water, swamps and deep south culture in the inland areas, retired people due to the tax laws, what's the deal down there? Seems like a lot of different cultures, but I don't really know, just curious. And a governor named Jeb, what is that short for? Jebus?

What part are you in?

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:54 am

djadonis206 wrote:
eyeknow wrote:Yeppers, fl is NOT the place for me..............

Besides, I'm so white, I get burned from overhead lighting!
my buddy josh is a "white" boy but he does ok...now let's take what you said and reverse it - what if you were hella black and in the snow - hmmmmm

like my boy Parker here

PUUPPPYYYY!!!!!!

what a cool bud...................