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Originally Posted by terry1156
I can't help you much since I live on the west coast, but I know that prices for housing and services are outrageous. To the point where we are considering moving. We could sell our average house here and live in a mansion in most other places in the country (we live in northern CA just north of San Francisco).
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Same here, only we're down closer to Santa Barbara (and since DH loves where he works now, there are no plans to move). At one point, we halfway considered moving to the outskirts of Santa Fe, NM. We could get A LOT of house and land there for what we originally paid for this place.
I think rents here for a 2 BR apartment are running about $1500/mo or more. The median home price is around $550K, I think. I don't know how people starting out could live here now. It's insane. When DH and I bought, we were two teachers with no kids, and we were down to our last hundred dollars when we put that down payment down. Now, there's no way we could buy into this market.