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I have to add a bit more perspective to what 444 is saying: The wife is manager for a large and very modern grocery store. Figured on a 40 hour week she brings home less than $10 an hour, and makes about $13.50 before taxes. This makes her one of the best paid employees in this county. Our house is a 3000 sq ft log home with roughly 1800 sq ft of wrap around porch and balcony, three years old, on a lake in the middle of 40 wooded acres.
Appraisal: $195k...(am I wrong to think it should have been a bit higher, based on what some of you guys are buying?)
So it's all relative. I'd think your prices are insane even before the Californicans get there, and there really are still places where costs and prices are almost normal. OTOH I'd love to have a copy of this piece of property near, say, LA? Few miles out...I'd retire now and enjoy life.
Oh, but, umm, don't move here for the costs. We have mosquitos that open screen doors, ticks that carry off small children and pets, water mocassins, copperheads, rattle snakes and, umm, oh yeah, Bloomington is WAY too close for comfort...
Appraisal: $195k...(am I wrong to think it should have been a bit higher, based on what some of you guys are buying?)
So it's all relative. I'd think your prices are insane even before the Californicans get there, and there really are still places where costs and prices are almost normal. OTOH I'd love to have a copy of this piece of property near, say, LA? Few miles out...I'd retire now and enjoy life.
Oh, but, umm, don't move here for the costs. We have mosquitos that open screen doors, ticks that carry off small children and pets, water mocassins, copperheads, rattle snakes and, umm, oh yeah, Bloomington is WAY too close for comfort...